Archive | April 2012
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automattic’s worldwide wordpress 5k
wow, just the title’s a mouthful! When I got the email about the Automattic’s WorldWide WordPress 5K, I thought it was an awesome idea! I hate running, give me weights any day, but I like to work on my weaknesses (or I like to think I do!) and I thought I’d give it a whirl. […]
oo oo oo … go ape!
my friend Claire (who is the gorgeous person in pink featured in the pictures below), who is so beautifully full of fabulous ideas, turned 26 yesterday. As well as going for drinks in the usual fashion, she also organised a day at … Go Ape! Uh-huh! Obviously not all of her friends decided to come […]
I’d … I’d … I’d like to thank …
the exceptionally wonderful DawnInWonderland for my award! I am so overwhelmed I almost shed a tear (think Anna Paquin, Oscars 1993). Honestly, it’s totally made my Friday! And if there were one person I could’ve picked to nominate me it would be the lovely Dawn, whom I’ve never met but whose blog I absolutely adore. […]
static trapeze
Hobbies. It just conjures up a lovely image of homeyness doesn’t it? However in my case it’s more a matter of swinging through the air like a slightly physically and mentally defunct monkey. I know I keep saying it, but my all-time fave is pole, but more recently I’ve branched out into other aerials, just […]
life’s a playground
Remember being a kid?! I can’t. It was too long ago. That’s me on the right, in the fetching stripy handknitted sweater with the particularly attractive bowl hair-cut. I was such a fashion icon in 1985. But if I strain my aged, fading memory back about 290 years, I remember that being a kid was […]
money money money
it’s a rich man’s world. Sadly, I’m not a rich man. I’m not even half of those things! I try not to think about the amount of money I spend on my sports habit in case I undo all the good the exercise’s done by giving myself a small cardiac infarction. As I came up […]
rate yourself
I’m Kiwi. I live in England. These two facts mean that it is culturally ingrained in me that I SHALL NOT BE PROUD OF MYSELF. I shall never say that I am good at anything, I shall never appear to believe in myself, and above all, I shall never, ever, EVER boast. Further, praise […]
just heroes … no villains
I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation lately, trying to pin down what really gets me to work my best. One of the things that really inspires me is my list of heroes. I’ve got lots of heroes and obviously they change depending on the context. For example, my boss Charlie is one of my work heroes, […]
how to handle a fragile ego
I had the misfortune to be born in September, which, as a Virgo, makes me one of the most hyper-critical people on the planet. I do wish that that only extended to other people, but sadly we’re possibly even more critical of ourselves than we are of others. We’re a difficult, picky, demanding bunch, and […]
i may be faas, but i’m definitely not a puma
Actually, I’m not that faas either. Virgin Active launched the Puma Faas Class earlier this year. I went to the first four before I went to New Zealand and I LOVED IT. stop saying faas. it’s fasT. But no – it isn’t! It’s Jamaican patois mon, and that’s ’cause the work-out was endorsed by Usain […]
