Archive for December, 2008

» New Year, New Job, New Lens

I finally published the lens about my new job: Imperfectly Natural!
I waited awhile, because I wanted to make sure that everything was going OK, but we also had a load of bugs to squish on the site as it moved from one host to another and was re-designed. However, I think now is the time [...]

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» Trying to make sense of the world….

It’s that time of year when I am more reflective than usual. 2008 has not been a good year for us in some ways, but every cloud has a silver lining and mine was finding Squidoo. Will 2009 be better? What is it about the passing of one year and the dawning of another?
However, my [...]

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» Life has been a rollercoaster lately & I do NOT like rollercoasters!

Rollercoasters – no way! I discovered I hated them when I went on one at Littlehampton when I was about 10 years old. I never went near them again until I became a Mum and then allowed my son to persuade me onto the runaway train at Disneyworld Florida. Never, ever again!
But isn’t it always [...]

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» Christmas almost upon us – looking for new topics already!

I published two lenses for Christmas: Christmas at AJs and Twelve ways to have a green and ethical Christmas and I am pleased with how well both have done. OK so no affiliate sales, but one made Lens of the Day and is currently my highest ranking lens at 152 and the other is climbing [...]

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» What a start to December!

Christmas came early for my lens: Twelve Ways to Have a Green & Ethical Christmas. On 01st December I did what I always do every morning when I wake Sparky up for school. I fired up the PC and logged on, then left it as it takes around five minutes to get going because of [...]

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» Winter has officially arrived – it’s no longer Autumn at AJ’s

Time to put Autumn at AJ’s to bed methinks. Today was officially the start of Winter at AJ’s. A visitor has arrived in the garden from Scandinavia, which means the weather is bad up there and it also means Winter has definitely arrived in this part of the UK.
So who is the Visitor? I [...]

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» What a day of mixed emotions!

For the first time in a long time, I have got rather low. My physiotherapy is not making the improvement I had hoped as far as my Otosclerosis is concerned and today I was told I may not make a full recovery. For me a “full recovery” would be to be able to play tennis [...]

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