Gardens and gadgets of the world

I am off work for a recuperative spell because I literally exhausted my adrenal glands. Adrenal fatigue is what they call it. Basically from long hours running around like a crazy person with adrenals in constant overdrive for months on end without proper breaks will do this to you. So a fortnight ago I was a physical and emotional gibbering heap. Now I sleep like a baby when I can get to sleep and I've finally switched to more hours out of bed than in bed. I have to try to be asleep particularly from 10pm to 2am and 6-9am for the adrenals to get TLC they need. I am trying to eat regular small meals as adrenaline is what keeps you going through hunger too and keep off sweet stuff altho' that is what I crave.

Also need to avoid stressful TV to keep my adrenals ticking along like some buddhist chant so have been delighting in watching Monty Don's (Sunday evenings at 9pm I think on BBC2) "Around the World in 80 Gardens". Memory is shot too so while I remember wanting to share it, let me... if you like travel programs this garden series is for you. Last Sunday they were in Kerala and the scenery was so stunning it was like a magical film set. If you were there, you just wouldn't believe it was real. My favourite garden story so far is the Indian chap who salvaged materials cast out and secretly in the jungle on land that didn't belong to him built an amazing intricate and avant garde garden - http://www.nekchand.com/. Some pics of not just sculpture. The Rock Garden of Chandigarh is now a 40 acre site of multiple sculptures, narrow mysterious path ways between the rocks, rushing water - a veritable land of enchantment to explore. It's very therapeutic even from the sofa.

From gardens of the world to gadgets. To help the old work load I have an io2 pen from Logitech so when I make notes in a meeting I can download then, have my handwriting turned into text and save some time typing up notes which usually never happens because there is no time. In fact I've had the pen ages but have not had the time before now to charge it and install it on my laptop! Time is such a precious commodity. Anyway here are the results of my first training dalliance with the pen. I got 100% character recognition and 98% for sentences according to the training tool but when I turned it into text for word (see below) it fell well below 98% but I still reckon this is a handy gadget to have and will definitely be using it. Not sure about it putting things on separate lines as written in the special notebook rather than text that just flows. Anyone know how to fix that so I don't have to edit the end of each line?

Concorde's first flight was an 2µ|µ1969. An

alexandrine is a verse line of twelve syllables.

The top of Mount EVEREST is 8, 848µ high

(Himalayas). On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong

walked on the Man. Gino STOWE made the

film Platoon in 1987. BENIN is the modern

name for DAHOMEY. 1 degree Fahrenheit =

0.56 degrees Celsius. The firm 'The Last

Emperor' was made in 1987. Honshu is the

largest island in the Japanese attn_µµµ.

A sheet of A4 paper µµµµ 21 x 0.7 cm,

The island of Cuba BISOKM soothed provide.

The Richter scale measures the magnitude of

earthquakes.

Wagner-s Rig consists of: The Rheingold, The Ride of

the Walky vies, Silk eds, Twilight of the Gods,

The archipelago of the Hawaiian islands is in the

Pacific, A sonnet is a poem composed of 14 verses.

What is Europe' largest river?... it is actually the

Volga, 3690 km long! Mandela received the Nobel

Peace Prize in 1993. 27% of France is covered in

woods and forests. Gutenberg inverted the printing

pen in Main in 14SS, Borg won the French open

tennis tournament 6 times, Mandarin Chinese is

spoken by 755 million individuals.