Robin who I lived next to in Bracknell has become a close friend. When he went full-time with his photography business I recommended work use him for business portraits. And so they did this week. I met him coming out of the lift with Tara in PR. "Oh hello" he said "You look so different in your business clothes." He then turned to Tara and reveals "I normally see her in her dressing gown!!!"
I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me. It is sadly true that Robin has seen me more than once in my DG. I wake up and gravitate to the laptop. Start work and that's it until fainting with hunger I peel myself off it and get something to eat. By then it is mid afternoon and there seems little point getting dressed.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
My new car - VW EOS 2.0 Petrol Automatic
Had a lovely day today visited by my dad and Rita. We took a Sunday afternoon drive in the countryside. We were a 4 hat family! Have meant to post pics of this car I researched for months and love to bits. Got it November last year but may have to sell it soon. Here I am doing my Noddy impression.
Sunday, March 09, 2008
Argentina trip finally happened and is bloody fab!
My blog of the Argentina grand tour can be found at http://realtravel.com/argentina-trips-i6665513.html and what a wonderful trip it is turning out to be from peaks to penguin poo at the end of the earth. Love it and worth the 12 year wait to get here.
All my recent photos are now moved to this address in case you had the other one bookmarked - http://picasaweb.google.com/inmyfootsteps. Some great best of Argentina trip photos to come once we get to somewhere with a speedy internet connection. Only first few days posted so far. We're just back from Torres Del Paine national park where yesterday we had lunch at a view point listening to the rumble of avalanches in the valley over the other side of the lake. Today we were beset first by guanacos and then chased by dogs. Feels like we've been travelling months we've seen so much and covered such distances but it has only been a week.
Finally as if all those links were not enough I have started a blog which collects all my hotel and travel tips at http://inmyfootsteps.wordpress.com/. Basically great places I heartily recommend.
Marta xx
All my recent photos are now moved to this address in case you had the other one bookmarked - http://picasaweb.google.com/inmyfootsteps. Some great best of Argentina trip photos to come once we get to somewhere with a speedy internet connection. Only first few days posted so far. We're just back from Torres Del Paine national park where yesterday we had lunch at a view point listening to the rumble of avalanches in the valley over the other side of the lake. Today we were beset first by guanacos and then chased by dogs. Feels like we've been travelling months we've seen so much and covered such distances but it has only been a week.
Finally as if all those links were not enough I have started a blog which collects all my hotel and travel tips at http://inmyfootsteps.wordpress.com/. Basically great places I heartily recommend.
Marta xx
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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?
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?
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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