Jonathan Becker emailed to tell me about his website Optimistly, which is all about self discovery. He writes perceptively about simple steps you can take to improve your life, including the use of positive thinking.
Also Greg Lord has started a 3BT blog at Three Brilliant Things and Kim has been recording her beautiful things at Skybelle Arts.
1. I come back from an emergency cream cheese run to find the kitchen smells strongly of oranges -- when I realised I didn't have the right ingredients for Nick's birthday cheese cake I'd been grating orange zest.
2. Our neighbours have in their garden a few deep space purple crocuses.
3. Human Planet -- Mountains. In the making of segment at the end, we discover that Kazak hunters have 300 words for horse colours. The chap with the camera rides gamely for three hours after the truck breaks down and the hunter tells him: "You're a good man. Apart from your nose." There's a pause. "It's too big, you mean?" "Yes. You'll get frostbite."
Fairly Christmassy, queue jumpers and advent calendar.
1. For the last few weeks, polling company YouGov has been wondering how Christmassy I feel. Today, I can answer honestly that I'm now f...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. I promised myself I wouldn't moan and grumble about it -- but I do. And as if by magic, a very kind friend produces the required blaz...