A tentative re-start?

Hello!
It has been a long time...over two years in fact.  Emigrating is a major, major head and heart messer.  I am finally feeling that I am coming out of a big fog and actually living a life again.  So off I go with the blog again.
Same rules as before - it's primarily for me to organise my thoughts and feelings and to make me a bit more accountable.  No-one wants to read about how I watched telly, surfed the net and ate chocolate day after day, not even me, so it  should motivate me to notice how I use my time.  It's also a way for family to read about incidental events that happen and to see lots of photos.
I'll aim for at least one a week but I refuse to feel guilty if I fail.

So...to start here are a few photos from the summer:

Summer breakfast

fun in the hot-tub

Mum has fun with a kangaroo

Charlie makes a friend

All dressed up for a wedding

My gorgeous daughter and gorgeous mum

Bill the Alpaca smiles for the camera

 Until next time....

Hello!

Just wanted to say a quick "hello" to Trish, Joh, Pam and Farah who follow my blog. I'm thrilled and slightly intimidated by the fact that people actually want to read what I write.......

Of course "hello" to Barkers too - he's the other half! And to my mum who assures me she reads it. xxx

Well, here goes......

Having contemplated doing this for a few months now and having fiddled about with the layout, it is now time to start posting.

But what to post? In the still of the night I am inspired to write all sorts of original and intelligent things but now, in the cold light of day those ideas seem to have deserted me and I feel a bit of an empty head!

Why am I doing this? I suppose I am hoping that by writing down bits of my life and thoughts and happenings I will make more sense of my life. I'm hoping that I'll begin to see a pattern, a plan. By communicating with others I'll see that I'm not so odd, I'm not out of sync with the rest of womankind. I want to feel normal, or if not normal, then happily abnormal. That's the key I think - confidence. I want to be confident to be me. How will writing a blog achieve this? No idea, but I just feel that it is a good thing to do, for me, at the moment.

I'm not going to promise to write every day or even every week because, I fear, I will fail and then feel like a failure. Another thing started and not finished (like the garden design course). So I'll post when the muse inspires and see how I go.

For now...

Alex

(The photo, by the way, is just one I like. It's not symbolic of anything. Certainly not symbolic of how I feel I look after Christmas. Definitely not.)