TWO GLASSES OF WINE

When things in your life seem too much to handle, when 24 hrs in a day are not enough, remember the mayonaise jar and two glasses of wine.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty jar of mayonaise and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. "yes " they replied. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open spaces between the golf balls. He asked the students again is the jar full "yes" He then picked up a box of sand and poured that into the jar. Of course the sand filled up everything else. Is it now full a unanimous "yes" The professor then produced two glasses of wine from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty spaces between the sand.
The students laughed , the professor said"NOW I want you to recognise that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things, your family, children, your health, friends, and your favourite passions; things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would be still full". The pebbles represent the other things your job, car, your house. The sand is everything else; the small stuff. "If you put the sand in first there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you" Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children, take your partner out to dinner, play another round of 18. There will always be time to clean the house and take out the rubbish. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter.Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the wine represented. The professor smiled " I'm glad you asked . It just goes to show that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of glasses of wine with a good friend"

THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Go to the sea the ebb and flow are like your own unrest

The stillnes that follows laughter is like having a great
weight removed from your shoulders

Still here

As you can see i am now not in london after all! It could only happen to me, whilst having a great weekend with my friends dogs had a beautiful walk on saturday from hawkers bay to padstow three hours all in all {no piccies] had enough trouble trying to keep dexter from saying hello to everyone on the beach also he loves his frizbee so we were kept busy exhausted would be another word lol, then sunday went to our small local woods there were so many leaves that had dropped which had covered the ground and i stupidly fell and twisted my ankle on a tree root Tony said" one minute you were behind me the next you were on the floor in a heap" end of walk ! it blew up like a balloon and my foot the next day, doctor said it is not broken but badly twisted the tendens, so i am hobbling around at the moment, thought it stupid to even attempt the plane ride, really upset and of course had to break it to mum that i could not make it, think i will now go next weekend as it is our daughters 30th birthday then stay up the week after that is if nothing else happens to me!!! Good news i can now get some holiday pictures up of turkey.

what was that?

Finally that thing appeared in the sky on sunday SUN hurray! had a leisurely morning sitting in the garden,then after lunch it seemed to cloud over here so decided to head for the beach a few miles away so pleased we did it was wonderfully sunny set up wind breaks got the chairs out and towels ah bliss just to have sun on your back felt great, i know we are not supposed to just lay in the sun but it felt so good , the beach was full of happy people quite a lot of surfers and body boarders in the water everybody making the most of the day. Our local beach is mawgan porth which is five miles away, it has unfortunatley over the winter lost a lot of it's sand exposing a lot of rock where the soft sand used to be so in the school holidays the beach will be absolutely jammed packed with people you will certainly have to claim your spot early to get the soft sand. We stayed there until 5.15pm came back and had melon with parma ham along with a bottle of chillean chardonnay in the sun. what a lovely change to have some warmth. As i said have been feeling grotty the past two weeks but that one day of just doing not a lot has done wonders feeling so much better thank goodness.
So much for a great sunday the weather here is very cloudy and misty today and yesterday but still warm, forcast looking better for tomorrow.
Well back to work today have to get a wriggle on, got a good mile walk to work which will do me good to get some exercise, hopfully getting back to a diet and running soon, we have two months to go before our holiday to istanbul so have to get in trim for that. quick post today will do more tomorrow.