I'm sure I can smell tea

I'm sure I can smell tea
Originally uploaded by lizjones112

I went to Chestnut Wildlife Centre" today with Mum mainly because I love Otters and owls and they have both there, I had read about it in a Wildlife guide in the Guardian and I wanted to get some photos of them. I found the whole place rather depressing, the otters were kept in smallish pens in an attractive wooded valley with a pretty stream running through it. However the otters didn't have access to the stream and a lot of them didn't even have water to swim in. Even worse where the owls quarters these were wire mesh pens among the trees about 5ft square and around 12ft high. The owls didn't look at all happy. As you can see from the picture the otters seemed a bit happier some did have pools to swim in.

Smoking

Abstract Smoke Photography
Originally uploaded by MillionSwords

Something strange has happened to me recently, I smoke, I don't really like the fact that I do, I don't like that I get something from it. I have tried to give up many times, Succeeded once for about a year when I had my son. But I always missed it. Because I was in agonising pain from a trapped nerve in my shoulder my GP prescribed gapapentin this is a recognised and authorised treatment for nerve pain. It seemed to work, my pain is much better. What is interesting is that it seems to have reduced my craving for my next hit of nicotine, but what is even more interesting and strangely annoying is that it has also removed my enjoyment of my occasional smoke. I don't smoke heavily but have always enjoyed it's stress relieving qualities and the comfort of the habit that a non-smoker would be hard pressed to understand. Although I should welcome this opportunity to quit I find my self annoyed and faintly irritated by this.

Tescos

Tesco Winchester. Never-ending tills.
Originally uploaded by :Duncan

Today I popped into Tescos for a fw things on my way home from work. On all the main tills there was a sign asking shoppers with baskets to go to the express or serve your self checkouts;the automated ones that never work properly anyway!. There were about 4 checkout workers sat looking bored serving no one. I asked an assistant why the signs. She explained that it was part of an initiative to reduce the length of queues. It seemed that they were being audited on this, yet another example of an "outcome measure" being inappropriate. I felt the signs were slightly intimidating it wasn't a polite request to use the other till when possible when shopping for a small amount of stuff. Next time I will take a trolley and put my few items in it.

Messy desk

Clear your Desk
Originally uploaded by lizjones112

I have just recieved the following Flicker mail

hello,

my name is ania and i´m doing a research about chaos on the desk. i would describe myself as a very messy and chaotic person. in my diploma work i´m dealing with the topic how to handle chaos in an effective way, but without getting neat.
i saw your messy desk picture on flickr and would like to ask you for help. i would be very happy you could answer me these quetions. it would help me a lot!

1. is your chaos a problem for you or do you handle it well?

2. why does your chaos break out?

3. is there something you always know where it is, something you´re never searching for? and is there something you´re always looking for? if yes why?

4. how do you find the things you´re looking for? have you got any strategies or methods? or do you know any alternative search-for-method?

5. could you imagine something that helps you finding what you´re searching for?


thanks a lot!!!

best regards ania

Useful Rain...

English Summer
Originally uploaded by Lady Vervaine

According to tonights weather forecast at the end of the BBC news tonight we are going to get some useful rain tomorrow.... WTF is that?

Why I havn't blogged for a while...

Shoulder
Originally uploaded by Movements Afoot

I've not bogged for ages as I've been laid up with a very painful shoulder and arm. I have no idea how I did it, all I know is that I woke up on Bank Holiday Monday morning with pain in my shoulder with a bed pain in my shoulder.Initially I just thought I had "slept funny" but as I tried to get up and about I realised quite how bad things were. I tried to drive;that was impossible! I rang around my friends. Very kindly Colett and her boyfriend took me to A & E at the Northern, I felt bad for taking up the time of A & staff but I was in agony. The pain was going all down my left arm. They were fantastic, I got seen quickly no doubt because pain radiating down your left arm can be a sign that you are having a heart attack. Thankfully I wasn't. The only thing I could fault the A& E staff on was thinking that my friend Colett was my daughter, she is ten yours younger than me but... my only defence is that I looked terrible because I was in so much pain! Somehow I have got through the past few weeks without cracking up completely like most nurses I am a terrible patient. For that I have to thank my wonderful friends especially Sarah for taking Ben to my Mums, feeding me and generally cheering me up and Lise for lifts to physio etc. My GP Alison who is in the final stages of her training to be a GP has been fantastic too, sympathetic and tolerant of my long winded descriptions explanations and occasional tearfulness. She has always discussed treatment options with me and I have always felt as though I am working in partner ship with her rather than being told what to do. The pain has been excruciating at times apparently I have a trapped nerve. It has sent horrible pains down my arm and caused pins and needles in one side of my hand. It is gradually easing but It has taught me to think about my posture I slouch far too much and hunch over the computer keyboard. I'm just hoping the improvement continues ...

This is interesting...