29 May

Inspiration

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We find inspiration in the most unexpected places… But if you are reading tis blog you probably already know that.

Today I found mine waking the kentish tracks and fields and hills and talking about building databases and corporate politics with my step-dad.

We went out for an afternoon stroll (in his terms… in my terms aI call a 5mi walk up and down the hills through little paths that you can’t always see a bloody hike… am I right??? )

One way or another it was a great walk. It gave me time and the inspiration to clear up some ideas I had for Action Stations… And get an outsider’s view about some plans I’ve head turning in my head for quite a while… Things that might veer the direction of the company to a whole new way…

It cleared up some stuff I had in my mind on a personal level too…

Incredible what a walk in the fresh air can do to you… I need to remember to do that more often… Breathe…

The Gallery: Children

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I have 3 very special boys in my life.

They were born in different families and grew up in a different set of rules all together but if they were blood brothers it wouldn’t have worked out as perfectly…

The 2 eldest ones are inseparable when together. I love to see the way they plan things and after much negotiation agree on rules of their games. Yes, they have times where they want their space and that causes conflict sometimes… but it all evaporates within minutes when a new game begins… The littlest one is going the same way and I can actually see the 3 of them causing even more havoc together…

The 3 terrors we call them…

It is still all very new… for all of us… but as this new family grows we’ve been putting the little pieces together.

I don’t talk much about the bible… but I have an example to take from it… “We need to be like children if we want to be in Heaven”…

If we only learned to follow the logic of our children there wouldn’t be any more war, or enemy countries… Imagine a world where we could all live in peace? Utopia??? Maybe… Bit I believe we are the ones responsible for making the earth we live become paradise… or hell…

There is always a new lesson to be learned from our Children…

Being grown up doesn’t make you wise…

What have you learned from the children in your life today????

You can check out more Gallery posts at Sticky Fingers! Some awesome stuff there! And if you like what you saw here, well… leave me a comment!

I likes comments!

13 Jan

12/365 What’s Next?

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There is a point in the life of every blogger where you need to stop and think about what you have achieved and where you want to get with your blogging. Specially when you have been around for as long as I have… and I have been in the blogging world for the best part of a decade now… Since before blogging was even called blogging…

God… I feel so old… lol!

My blog has had various shapes, names and formats since I started all these years ago… and throughout it I have shared travels, expectatives, a whole marriage, good and bad times, 2 pregnancies and 2 births, a divorce, the beginnings and ongoings of a new relationship, reviews and experiences I would never think of having otherwise like being invited to the Volvo S60 Naughty Track (which BTW, there will be a Vlog post on it published in the next couple of weeks) at the Top Gear track and even the surprise of being within the Top 10 Cision Daddy Blogs in the UK and an unexpected Rockstar Blogger Award at The MADS.

Yeah… I’ve been through a lot… and Blogging has been there with me through most of that…

So now, I have to stop and ask… What’s next????

Well… next I’m taking it to the next level… but that is a subject for another day and another talk… so Stay Tuned!!!

Now I ask you… How long have you been blogging for??? What’s next for you????

Don’t be shy… have your say at the comments!!!

12 Jan

The Gallery – Body Parts

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Ah… New year, new resolutions, new styles and new Galleries!!

First of the year made me think… The Theme: BODY PARTS!!!

First thought I had was to publish something naughty… but I had to rethink that one… some people already think I am a perv… Which I am not…

I am, however ,a lover of the human form!!!! So body parts was a perfect start for the year!!!

I hate taking photos of myself so am not going to use any of MY body parts… and using the kids as models would sound a bit dodgy… so what do I do??? Use my gorgeous girlfriend and my favorite body part of her!!!!

I know you were thinking something completely different (you perv… lol) but that is the body part I love the most on Hales…

They say the eye is the Window to the Soul… and I can definitely lose myself in her eyes…

Yeah… I now… soppy… romantic… tacky… call me what you want… I love “old style”…

zya!

24 Nov

The Gallery: Black & White

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It’s been ages since the last time I’ve posted anything for The Gallery at Sticky Fingers… But when I saw today’s theme I felt I needed to do it… it is how my life feels at this moment… black and white…

You see… I am simple to please and a few simple things bring me happiness…

Two of them are missing in my life at the moment… they are so small but they bring such intensity of colours to my life that without them it feels black and white.

My 2 sons are the colour missing in my life. Their smiles and squeals and daily noises might have annoyed me and driven me nuts so many times… but I would give anything to hear them right now…

I love the chaotic mess in my life when their colours mix with the rest of the colours in my life… it makes the spectrum complete… Right now I have none of those colours…

Right now… it’s just black and white and shades of grey…