Checking in -

* Rang my friend in UK for a long catch up call. Her life at the moment is full of those everyday dramas that are more like karmic time wasters. We had a good long whinge about everything, and I got off the phone feeling light. Light, as in having been listened to with sympathy and empathy, by someone who really, really understands and knows me so well. L. is the person I have been friends with since we were 11 years old. That's a long time!

* The garden is looking pretty damn good - probably for the first time in all the time that we've lived here. We put in those extra hours over the last weekend, and now it almost looks like a garden thats had the once over in a TV garden makeover show. The aches and pains have been worth it, now its just a matter of maintenance and some heavy duty watering so that the plants we did put in survive.

* The weather is playing tricks with us, the few days over the weekend had me putting away all the winter clothes, and washing all the summer tops and clothes, as it turned a rather warm 27c. Overnight it was summer. Then just as quickly it turned back to a wintery spring. Summer is supposed to return again for the next weekend, but its still so fickle that I'm not holding my breath....yet.

* Received a Wayne Dyer newsletter in the snail mail post last week, and took it out today to have another read - it became one of those - 'what if...' dream type experiences, where I stop the dreaming and actually book the plane tickets, AND the hotel, AND take off to hear Dr. Dyer speak in real time. I have many of his tapes and books, but I'm sure there's nothing better than the real thing. The closest venue to us, for one of his seminars is Honolulu. Maybe one day...

* I've been neglecting the blog and my writing lately, and to be honest I'm finding it hard to maintain the momentum of a daily entry. My life is not the most exciting in the world, so I guess the trick is to develop the skill to be able to present the dull in a more palatable and exciting way? Ok off to practise then....