been out geocaching bright and early today..

I went out with a friend this morning to introduce her to the delights of geocaching. We took an easy stroll behind Percy Throwers garden centre but ended up covered in mud! Anyway she really enjoyed the thrill of finding the hidden caches and can't wait to get a GPS so she and her family can start discovering more of the outdoors and geocaching themselves.

I have chosen a photo of Sue as my photo of the day.

Bournemouth - part 2

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day - so we made the most of it by geocaching all day - we must have walked miles - we were shattered by the evening so we had a fabulous Chinese meal - eaten with chopsticks and an early night. We did caches along East Cliff into Boscombe, Bournemouth Gardens and then into Meryick Park.

I like all these photos so not really sure which one to choose as my photo of the day.

Either this one of me - which tells the story of where we are or:-

This lovely one of my favourite art galleries ever - The Russell Cotes gallery & Museum - but it does not show that we are at the sea side or:-This gorgeous one of Steven on the beach or:-The view from East Cliff looking over to the pier or:-this one of the sea (i think this will be the one)Can't use this one of me (thank goodness as it has to be in landscape orientation) but I am pleased with it - I am really enjoying playing with this 50mm lens - even Steven managed to get a nice blurry background.

We have been to Bournemouth!

Steven & I have been away for a few days to Bournemouth and we have had a lovely time. Right up until the last minute we were umming and ahhing wheter to go or not because of the snow - I am so glad we did because we had fab weather Saturday and Sunday - just Monday was rainy but no snow.
On Saturday afternoon, Steven went to see Shrewsbury Town play Bournemouth at football - Shrewsbury lost miserably. So I took myself off to the New Forest walking and geocaching. I am ashamed to say that in the 24 years we have holidayed in Bournemouth we have never been to the New Forest - geocaching soon put that right. I loved it and am determined to go back again. Most of the photos are of trees - not surprisingly - but I have chosen this one (above)as my photo of the day and to put in my album.

7th February photo - more sweets!

Today's photo is in the 'sweets' category and show some liquorice giant flyers. They are tubes of liquorice filled with sherbet and I love them. My MIL used to buy me a large box each Christmas ( which I did have to share!) but she can't get them anymore so I have to make do with just 5 at a time now.

6th February photo - my lovely note book

Todays photo is from the 'something that makes me happy' category and is my Cath Kitson notbook that Heather bought me for Christmas. It is coming in very handy now for writing my daily journalling for my 365 project and it is so lovely to look at. Thanks Heather!

5th February photo of the day - my pink girl

Jessica's University - UEA - have recently changed their logo - which gave everyone the chance to invest in some new uni hoodies etc. The swim team chose this lovely pink hoodie and I think Jess looks lovely in it - so I pestered her to let me take her photo in it - she gave me one minute tops, so I worked quickly and was lucky to get a couple of gorgeous pics of her.

Poor Steven has been relegated from my laptop wallpaper now - to be replaced by this pic of Jess!

tought of the day - as well as a photo of the day

Found these thoughts on ALi E blog today (she has not had her baby yet!) and thought they were nice to ponder and share. They came from here (http://www.gypsygirlsguide.com/and was entitled - 'finding the courage to soar'.

So here is the first step. Before you even create a map of where you want to go, remember where you've been and what you've done. This is key to finding wisdom is your journey. Honor your own life and your own teachers, which are the challenges and accomplishments you went through and earned yourself. What I realized is that there is not just one big moment of courage in our lives. There are many. These moments come to us in different ways. At times we are forced into a leap (unexpected pregnancy, when parents or partners pass away, when we loose our job). At times we are called into a leap (when someone invites us for a trip of a lifetime, when our partner wants to move to a new city, when we are offered a chance, when we take the "money maker" role to support our family). Then there are also the daily tiny leaps we take for the sake of adventure (when we try new types of food, music, when we go out on a date, when we talk to a stranger, when we transition from blogger friends to real life friends). No matter how small, silly or hard, tiny, dramatic or forgotten... All leaps are important because little by little, we live through change, we figure out how to cope, we move forward, we learn who we are, and we build our confidence for the bigger leaps, the ones we seek for ourselves.