Today I’m outlining the plan for a new project. I have spent years healing and nurturing the mental side of myself to a point where I now live a life where I am proud of who I am and what I do. Today the time has come to begin taking the physical side just as [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘General Ramblings’
March 14, 2009
New Year’s Resolutions Revisited
It’s March already and boy have we been busy these first two and a half months of the year!
I thought it might be a good idea to revisit our New Year’s Resolutions and see what’s happened.
Lose another two stone (slow and steady is my melody) = Two more inches off the tape measure and I [...]
March 1, 2009
Happy New Year!!
Today is a special day. It’s our first anniversary!
I can’t believe it’s been a year since we formed the Academy. And I can’t believe how far we have come over the past 12 months. Not even in my wildest dreams would I have believed that day, the 29 February, that we’d be this close to [...]
February 28, 2009
Get 19,530 new twitter followers in 30 days?
If you are on twitter and want to increase your number of followers for marketing purposes – or just for the extra attention – you might want to check this out!
Gary Mc Caffrey has this crazy idea of how to get up to 19,530 new twitters to follow you in 30 days. As a twitter [...]
February 18, 2009
You Can Help Us Make a Difference!
Atkins Academy is working with young black people to raise aspirations, maximise potential and create opportunities for success. At the moment we are raising funds to become an independent school and a provider of GCSE and A-Level equivalent qualifications.
Education is an expensive field of work, but we are doing this Obama-style. Penny by penny we [...]
February 14, 2009
On Valentines and True Love
So, it’s Valentine’s day again; this the single peeps’ least favourite day of the year and the real test of the coupled up’s love for each other. For years, this day (together with midsummer, Christmas, New Year’s, Easter, birthdays, funerals and christenings) used to invoke a feeling of dread and despair in me. There’s some [...]
February 4, 2009
Happy Birthday My Love
Just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my man, my boss, my mentor and the man I have promised to spend the next 25 years of my life with. 45 years old today, he’s still a young man at heart but a wise old dog in his character of knowledge.
I’ve made him a piggy bank [...]
January 1, 2009
Happy New Year!!!
Feeling slightly contemplative looking at the year that lies ahead of us like a blank canvas. Can’t wait to see the painting that will unfold and the excitement at the thought makes me feel all butterflied up… =)
As tradition bids, I have made my New Year’s Resolutions:
Lose another two stone (slow and steady is my [...]
December 31, 2008
The Year Is Dying In the Night…
In these the last shivering hours of 2008, I thought a stanza from Lord Tennyson’s poem Ring Out Wild Bells would be appropriate:
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
And then some famous lines from my fellow [...]
December 26, 2008
Merry Christmas and Bless Us All!
John as a Dancing Santa in our 2008 Christmas Card.
So this is Christmas, and what have you done? To continue the words of John Lennon, another year is over and this is the time to contemplate on what you’ve done with it.
Looking back, I think I can safely say that I’ve had the best year [...]
