Yorkie Friday

I know Its no longer Friday morning but I didn't fancy a Yorkie for breakfast this morning  so I'm having it for lunch instead! 

Well it's Friday again, and only 4 weeks till Christmas! The weeks are flying by, which is slightly problematic when there's so much to do! 

We're into winter now which for me this has already resulted in a bad cold this week! So I'm sorry to say I've spent the week infuriating my fellow commuters with my constant sniffing and coughing on the tubes and buses, my apologies, and thank you to everyone for all your suggestions, there really are an endless list of cold remedies, some quite surprising!

My favourite encounter this week was with a lady I met on the tube and after I offered her my perch/seat on the tube we had a lovely conversation, and she recommended Manuka honey for my cold (I'm confirming this recommendation - and it's cheapest in lidl, for anyone who is also suffering at the hand of winter's weapon). It was such a nice moment occurring out of something so simple of offering her my perch (all the proper seats were taken) and being open to conversation, I'd also recommend trying this (as well as Manuka honey) because it could open opportunities or change your or someone else's day!

Have a good weekend everyone! 

Latte Lunedi

Good morning readers I hope you had a good weekend and feel ready for a new week, despite the yucky weather!

My challenge for this week is to do something that's out of our comfort zone's, this could be something big but more likely something smaller that we, for whatever reason, would normally chicken out of. 

I hate having regrets and I nearly always regret not stepping out of my comfort zone because there's always the question of 'what if?' Who knows the opportunities that could arise? Nothing ever comes of doing nothing, so this week I challenge me and you, when we find ourselves in a situation where we want to chicken out, let's be daring and see what happens...

 

Yorkie Friday

Well good morning happy Friday! It has been a crazy week, we're into the cold season now, and all the children I look after have been ill at some point over the last week! I'm stocking up on vitamin C so fingers crossed I won't catch it! 

I'm currently sat on the bus eating my weekly yorkie and looking back over the week, the high point of my week was when the youngest boy I look after gave me 2 if his favourite teddies to sleep with one night, to you it might seem silly or so insignificant but for me this was such a blessing, it was a sign of love, trust and acceptance from him, and really touched my heart.

I set a challenge on Monday to try and be each other's sunshine (sounds very cheesy now). I've actually found this week that other people have been my sunshine, especially when things aren't going right, it's made all the difference and spurred me on to do the same..  It's like the film 'Pay it Forward'. It always goes in cycles and it works the same with negativity too, but there's one cycle that's much better than the other! So let's keep being the sunshine (even and especially when, it's bucketing down with rain)!

Before I go I'm just going to post a little poem that always makes me smile and I hope it will make you smile too:

'I wish I was a glowworm 

Cause a glowworm's never glum

Cause how can you be grumpy when the sun shines out your bum'

Latte Lunedi in Londra

Well good morning my lovely readers I hope you are all well!

Now I know that I don't normally blog at this time on a Monday morning, however, in my current weekly schedule Monday mornings are when I have a few minutes to get a coffee in Golders Green between the 2 buses I have to catch. I alternate between Starbucks and Costa and occasionally Cafe Nero, it's very strange having so much choice compared to little Ashby de la zouch! Anyway I thought I'd turn this tine each week into a time to do a mini blog, a weekly segment which I'm going to call "latte lunedi in Londra" -I'm a fan of alliterations and Italian. As it'll be the start of the week, in these mini blogs will be either a thought for the week as my gcse geography teacher Mr Shepherd used to do, or maybe a challenge for the week.

At the end of the week on Friday morning I'm going to do another mini   Weekly segment  called 'Yorkie Friday' not an alliteration this time but it has become a bit of a tradition of mine as those of you who have seen me on Fridays over the last 2 or so years will know! As I'm continuing the tradition (especially now yorkie have brought out a peanut version) I thought I would write a small review of the week and as part of this would answer or reflect on the thought or challenge for the week

So now for the first latte lunedi in Londra:

For my first thought for the week I took inspiration from this quote picture I found:

As the days get darker and colder it's important for us to become the sunshine to stop us all getting S.A.D. 

We each have the extraordinary power of being able to light up people's lives and my challenge for this week is for us to do that for at least someone every day.

Small print: these segments may be dependant on available wifi 

P.s just realised how unhealthy these 2 segments make me sound! I do eat enough healthy things throughout  the week too including a banana for breakfast if you remember from a previous post!

 

I'm Back

To my Reader,  
I'm sorry I've been absent for a while but even within the early weeks of this new chapter, another chapter, one that was very precious to me, ended. This, I guess, is the way life has to work sometimes, you have to give somethings up in order to gain what's waiting for you in the future, and even though it might be incredibly painful to lose that, there's the promise of something better on it's way...

I have chosen not to write in my blog ever since the ending of that particular chapter, not because I haven't had things to say or to share, but because my Dad has always advised me, quite wisely, to not make decisions when you're feeling a strong negative emotion. I have 21st century-ised this advice to: don't publish anything on social media when you're feeling a strong negative emotion. I don't want to publish anything I may regret, not that I was planning on writing about anything so personal, however, our emotions have a greater effect on our words and actions than we often realise.

Anyhow, I have now been living here in this fabulous big city for over 2 months and there is a lot more that I want to write about. So, watch this space, more of my thoughts on this New Chapter will be coming soon...