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Swimming with sea monsters

Friday, October 12th, 2012

Things have taken a rather surreal turn here… Yesterday I went snorkelling and encountered two of these… One 5m and one 4m whale shark, maybe 10 yards away and today I had a whole school of manta rays swimming around me as I snorkeled. Thankfully to the best of my knowledge they are vegetarian or […]

It’s never too late to teach an old dog new tricks

Thursday, October 11th, 2012

I’m still in shock. Despite the slight claustophobia that has always in the past made me panic at the mere thought of diving below the ocean’s waves, with the help of a very patient and sympathetic dive instructor I managed my first ever dive yesterday. Luckily I had no idea of how deep we were […]

A little bit of not very much at all….

Monday, October 8th, 2012

After a couple of non-blogging days I had hoped to have more to show you than one inch of sock knitting. I’m away on my hols and between exhaustion, a terribly slow internet connection and spending time at the bar drinking gin and tonics with friends, I’ve achieved nothing much at all. I had forgotten […]

Autumn

Friday, October 5th, 2012

Getting up while it is still pitch black outside and watching the glorious sunrise with the mountains silhouetted infront of them is one of the things I love about this time of year. The sunsets this time of year are pretty good too, but I don’t have such a good view of them and sunset […]

Musings….

Thursday, October 4th, 2012

Thanks for all your comments yesterday about what to do with my June Bug blocks. At the moment I’m going to do what Leanne suggested and put them to one side to do something I love…. I know, I know, it’s a cop out, but I really still don’t know what I want to do […]