When you think of the word “successful,” who’s the first person that comes to mind and why?
Well there are a number of people you could list all the way from the “Z” listers right the way up to the successful business person or uber intellectual.
But this is one where we should take all the credit, yes, you and i.
Look how far we have come, look at what we have witnessed and dealt with, the good bad and indifferent and we are still here. We maybe a little battle scarred and fragile but why give all the credit to celebrities and sudo heroes?
Pat yourself on the back, or get someone to do it for you, and whilst you’re at it pat them on the back and say, “Well done you bloody super successful person”.
I’m quite lucky that I have good neighbours, all different faiths, from many places in this big old world, some I know very little about, others I socialise with and know very well, but we all seem to abide by the following points
We mind our own business
We don’t gossip
We don’t enforce belief’s or opinion on each other
We respect our neighbours
We look out for each other
And after many years this is one reason that I don’t really want to move away, none of the above are planned points, they just all fell into place, a mutual unwritten agreement and I love it.
I could try it but I have absolutely no intention of doing so. I’ve never wanted to, as breaking legs for fun doesn’t feature high on my want to do list.
The whole scene around skiing puts me off. I’ve seen relations preparing for trips and the equipment required, the passes and the transport, you name it, it just seems excessive for going down a snowy hill on a pair of sticks.
The snobbery and elitism around it also, does not appeal to me, as a sport accessible to everyone, it certainly is not.
So. As the prompt states, it certainly is something I could try for the first time, but for me it’s a big no.
Apologies if you are a regular skier, it’s just not for me.
I’m going to list a number of principles that I do abide by, and that I also strive to achieve, however not always successfully.
Integrity
Live in the moment
Selflessness
Create your own path
Hold yourself to the highest conduct
Practice gratitude
Avoid negativity at all cost
Be generous
Give more than you take
Time is more valuable than money
As you can see, and if you know me, you will realise that there are some principles here that i exceed in, whilst others i really struggle with, but I’m nothing if not a trier, and persistence is something else that I have buckets of in reserve.
I’m one of those people who pretty much procrastinates at everything, I love the old Spanish saying of “Mañana” but then tomorrow arrives and now you have a whole stack of stuff to do.
So the thing I have been putting off doing is procrastination, but I’ve even been putting that off until tomorrow. Not good.
So I need to stop doing that now!
However as I’m busy today I’ll maybe look into that tomorrow.
If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to?
At this very moment it would be going to help a very frightened lady in my family, my niece bless her. She’s had problems all her life and has pretty much won every fight despite the odds being against her. She’s now fighting the toughest fight of her life as the Big C has entered the ring, she doesn’t fully understand, and he doesn’t fight fair. I think a million would go quite a way to get her the best treatment possible.
But I haven’t won it, I can’t pay for that treatment so unfortunately the fight goes on. But we’re fighters and we will be beside her all of the way.
Hedgehogs. 🦔
There are so many little hedgehog sanctuaries around the Uk constantly fighting a battle to save and protect this wonderful little creature of the night. They won’t hurt anyone, they do wonders to your garden, however we as a population are killing them just by going about our daily lives, butchering their environment for crappy estates and making their existence intolerable. Now I have regular hog visitors to my garden as it has been built around them. They have easy access to water and food and a section of the garden that I have classed as the wild part where I know they live. I see them in the garden as youngsters in the early part of the year and only last night I saw one of them in the garden and he is now a lovely fully grown male, quite a lump. Earlier this year I had three at the food bowl at the same time, a first for me, probably all from the same family, I believe I posted the video here: And then we had three..
I love to see them grow and I am so proud of myself that I’ve developed an environment that they feel safe in. And that’s the problem. I’m not in the country, I’m in a city with two horrendously busy roads and occasionally I see them as victims. However I’m really surprised that the majority thrive, and seeing now that the suspected hedgehog population is now less than 2 million across the UK (it was 5 times that only a few years ago!) we need to protect them.
Humankind in its worst form wipes other species out without a thought. If a million dollars, pounds or whatever currency you use could help stop this rot then there would be no second thought, I’d do it.
But again I dont have it so I’ll just keep doing my little bit to help these beautiful little beasts.
I admire anyone who has artistic talent. However at a push I’d easily rate Bob Ross as my favourite.
Why?
If you were an easily influenced teenager through the eighties, you couldn’t help but see this easygoing extremely pleasant individual on your television screens in the afternoons trying to convince everyone that they had a masterpiece within them.
Bob Ross Golden glow – my first “Masterpiece”
He wasn’t wrong, I’ve had a few lessons using his technique and I’ve produced a personal masterpiece in every session.
The guy had the ability to pull achievements out of people that they didn’t know they had inside them. He taught that art was for everyone not just the gifted few, and I loved that.
Bob Ross Crimson tide my second attempt
Beyond that my favourite artist is probably Constable, as I loved his detailed countryside landscapes.
But Bobs the man for me. And a local artist called Raymond Riley who taught me Bobs techniques, superb humans in my eyes, and wonderful teachers.
Foxes Den 
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