How Do You Measure Yourself ?

How Do you measure yourself ?

I don't mean measuring yourself height wise , I mean do you measure yourself against other people?,  it is something I do with extreme caution as your can walk the thin line with your confidance and I am not the jealous type .I always try to be the best I can be and I really don't like to have any situation unresolved.

Healthy competition is good but don't let it overtake your life and worse still your kids life , now I don't have the competive aspect of the playground to deal with. 

My values is one thing I don't measure against other people , and whilst I am quite open in my blogging I do hold back . They say you should never work with animals or children , well I'm a teaching assistant and I have cats so that didn't quite go to plan.


Also I measure myself in tea levels as if I don't have enough tea I really can not function very well.

Panoramic Wordless Wednesday

A Quiet Walk

A quiet half an hour sees reflection it is good to relax without spiralling down like why I was always picked last for rounders . Why loud people seem to be the bees knees occasionally and why my hair seems cursed by the hair fairies.

That half an hour sees me here at the woods at the bottom of my road.

Perception you see is where I trip up , I do wonder how I am perceived but that's  

Just part of life.

I wish I had swishy hair not that swishy hair equates to confidance.

Relaxing is what I need to do more of here :

Mother's Day with Truprint and A Code For A Free Card

Mother's day is fast approaching with great speed and if you haven't got your card sorted yet then don't worry help is at hand. That help is is in the form of Truprint and they have an offer on for a code for a free card ( with 99p postage ) with a lot less than you may pay for one in a shop.


I have just placed my order and my card will be winging its way to my mum who lives on her own in sheltered accomodation quite a few miles form me so I know when the card turns up it will make her smile.

This is the image I have gone for as it shows all of us and I know it will have pride of place on my mums mantlepiece.

So this Mothers Day Truprint would like to make as many mums smile as possible, by using this code: MUMINAMILLION you can order a free personalised Mothers Day card.

• Please be advised of the terms and conditions below.
• Awards one free 7x5 folded card
• Standard P&P charges apply (99p)
• Ship to recipient not available
• Complete with envelope
• Code is One-time use only
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Explore The Elements , Earth : Here I stand

I'm very lucky where I live to be surrounded 360 degrees by beautiful countryside, where I live is on top of a hill and if I ever find myself complaining as I trek up the hill I only have to stop and look at my surroundings the pure ethereal beauty as the breeze bristles past my ear. I am luckier than most to be able to step out of front door and to breathe deep the changing countryside air which changes with the season.

Earth is where upon I stand and earth is where I'm firmly planted , I can survey everything below me and above me. Round here the sky melts into the earth , earth is the lifeblood of the farming community and while other motorists complain getting stuck behind a tractor, I never do as it gives me further opportunity to stare upon the rich soil. Earth of which will spring fields of wheat that in summer will swish and sway upon the gentle warm breeze.

The earth is where I can experience also the other elements water,fire and air there is no contest amongst the elements who is the noblest or the best , in equal measure they are here but my feet are firmly upon the earth so no one should fear. Each element has it worth but me me earth is where I can see the most changes.

Changes I see the changes upon the earth in the countryside when I walk and I look upon the sky and when I walk upon another local village I see the water of the river ambling by and the swans gliding with effortless elegance as if they were performing a ballet dance underneath the water. I see the yearlong fruitful harvest of the earth season in and season out , I smell the earth and it fills me with hope. And after the rains in summer I love nothing better than to walk barefooted through the cool cool grass, I cannot thing of every part of the earth my fear my heart and head would explode.

Autumnal season the earth does sway heady trees lean and bow to the life they give to all. When I told here and picked up a leaf than leaf upon the soil of the field one day i look upon it to the clear clear sky. I looked through the skeletal leaf and saw the fluffy cotton floss clouds billowing across the sky.

Like myself the earth is stubborn ( though not always ) , I am a solid and demential like the earth , and I the collectiveness beauty of earth is where I gravity to just like family and friends.

I was put upon this earth to adventure , adventure is in my soul and in my heart I love the earth of where I live and when I travel and see the earth of a different country I yearn for the earth of whence I am from. Yet at the very same time I feel the need to such the earth of many a country.