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It's the beginning of March and Spring feels like its in the air...even if it is only for a short time, more rain forecast this week...but no matter, today makes it all worth while!</div>
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Hope you've all been keeping well and busy (can't believe my last post was also about Spring...last year's!) </div>
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I've been kinda sat on a plateau for the last year, not really moving mentally, physically I started swimming (after 18 years of not dipping a toe in the water), thinking the exercise would help shift some weight and tone up the body...I started with 20 lengths of the pool in an hour twice a week, gradually pushing myself to increase the lengths...I achieved 60 lengths in an hour 3 times a week and felt very pleased with myself. My doctor was quite impressed with me too! I felt physically better, along with changing eating habits I thought I may have cracked getting healthier ....it didn't last very long as this time last year I had to stop swimming due to hip pain, I was diagnosed with Bursitus (a fluid filled sack surrounding muscle/bone which become inflamed due to repetitive movement...it's quite common in athletes), firstly in one hip and then over a few weeks in the other. I couldn't take anti-inflammatory medication as I had a suspected stomach ulcer...the only thing was to stop the exercise and pop pain killers to help with the pain...it didn't help, so on the advice of the doctor I had a steroid injection straight into the Bursa, which should have relieved the pressure and got me back to "normal", sadly it didn't, it made it worse! Bursitus usually, with rest and anti-inflammatory meds, dissipates within a few weeks....I am coming up to a year on from my diagnoses and the pain is worse than ever, restricting my movement considerably, I have pain when I sit, sleep, stand, walk, some days it's worse than others...on those days I could cry with the pain. One suggestion (on the web) is to aid my mobility with a walking stick...I haven't gone that far, yet! I've heard all kinds of jokes from my teens about using a stick at my age...haha! So now the doctor has referred me to see a physio, my first appointment was before Christmas, which I had to walk to as the car had broken down, the walk knocked me out for days. I have held off on making the second appointment until I have four wheels again. Looking forward to the day when I am pain free and back in the pool, even if it is at a slower pace...I really miss the swimming!</div>
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At the beginning of 2013 I taught myself how to crochet via YouTube. It all started when a friend of mum's couldn't complete a scarf she was making for mum, so while they were away that weekend (Nov 2012) I finished it, and somehow managed to get the "knitting" bug....by the end December 2012 I had knitted 72 scarves for her friends and family! It hasn't quite stopped, albeit at a more sedentary pace, I liked the idea of Crochet but had never, ever, attempted it. So off to YouTube I went and clicked away until I found a decent, easy to follow tutorial on different Crochet stitches and I was away...more scarves, baby blankets, lap blankets, bobble hats, cowls...the reason I like it so much is it gives my brain chance to calm down...to not feel like it's containing spaghetti junction, or headless chickens, it actually feels like, for those moments I am stitching, that the routes/pathways, whatever you want to call them, are unfurling from their tangle and setting down clear pathways from A to B, and for a split second in life I feel kinda like the old me, with a grip on something. I'm still in my little disconnected world but somehow it's calmer and feels manageable. Its sad when I stop stitching that my mind springs back into a heap of chaos and the grip on reality is gone.</div>
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The other constant in my life (besides family) is Instagram...due to the depression and all that it brings with it, almost everything I post is from within my four walls or garden, it's another tool that helps me with my daily trials. I LOVE seeing what others post and how it relates to them and their lives, the virtual community that has built up around me and my followers/those I follow is amazing! I've also noticed it's a great help to those who are in need, mentally/physically, to sound off and receive great support back in an instant...I truly believe it can be a life saver for some.</div>
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The weather has been fabulous today, it's quite uplifting to see the sun shine for a long period in a day after having so much grey skies and rain...this has been a really bad Winter for floods and destructive winds, so seeing things in bud in the garden is really quite exciting...</div>
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I AM still here, I've ALWAYS been here...just not in a very "talkative" frame of mind<br />
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I've been passing by your blogs and reading all your lovely "snippets of life" and it has kept me ticking along slowly...thank you!<br />
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I've wanted to share lots of things with you over the summer but it hasn't come off, the will to do things is quite hard right now...Facebook and Instagram have been the best I could manage. It's very frustrating, but it is what it is and I have to ride the wave as best I can...<br />
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One of the things I seem to have grown more of a liking for over the last nine months is photography...well, by photography, I actually mean taking pictures...all the complicated stuff about apertures and shutter speeds etc is slightly going over my head...I like to"do" rather than "digest", if the shot comes off, great! If not, I have no idea why...<br />
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I upgraded my pocket Samsung point and shoot to a Panasonic Lumix FZ48 {Bridge camera}. I LOVE the quality of shots I get with it...it makes me see everyday life as a photo opportunity now, I just need to get past feeling SO self-conscious when holding the camera.<br />
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I'm in love with Macro photography and LOVE taking photos of flowers in the garden..I have just learnt that I can actually purchase a Converter lens for the Lumix, which will give me the "in-close" shots I truly long for..I actually did a *happy dance* when I read about it<span style="font-size: large;"><i> <span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="http://piecesofcontentment.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/closer-view.html">here</a> </span></i></span><br />
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Here are some {edited/non-edited} shots taken this weekend at the Cardiff Harbour Festival using my new toy:<br />
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To see my flower shots pop on over to my<span style="color: #e06666;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58478569@N03/">Flickr photstream</a></span></div>
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You can purchase my shots, pop along to my <a href="http://instaprints.com/profiles/hello-gorgeous.html"><span style="color: #e06666;">Instaprints page</span></a></div>
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Hope you're having a great week...with the kids back in school this week I suspect some of you are breathing in the silence!!</div>
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Now my <i>laptop</i> has got a blinking <a href="http://hellogorgeousdesign.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/stumped.html">virus</a>...arghhhh!!</div>
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Using mum's to catch up with all of you and trying desperately to get virus free...but I think it may have to go off to the virus spa for a wee break!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>hello gorgeous xxx</i></span></div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-78061211720635099382012-06-09T19:27:00.000+01:002012-06-09T19:27:15.225+01:00Mixing it up...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">hello gorgeous xxx</span></i></div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-3338479777388572002012-06-08T22:43:00.000+01:002012-06-08T22:43:19.470+01:00Sorted...<div style="text-align: center;">
Hotmail account back in <i>my</i> hands, passwords for <i>EVERYTHING</i> now changed and a new gmail account set up. </div>
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If you have any suspicions about emails etc from me anytime in the future, please shout...via facebook or the blog and I will jump into action {well, as quick as my 40 something bones will allow me!}</div>
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Advice thrown out to all of you...<i><b>change passwords regularly and set up a second email account</b></i> if you haven't already done so, it's so much easier to have an alternate address to correspond via...much better {and prettier} than being thrown in a blind panic!!</div>
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hello gorgeous xxx</div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-29272648364627120742012-06-07T09:55:00.002+01:002012-06-07T09:55:48.477+01:00Stumped...<div style="text-align: center;">
My Hotmail account has been taken over by a crappy virus...if you receive anything from me, it's not me...</div>
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Hotmail have blocked my account but to be able to unblock it I need a code from them...unfortunately they send the code to my account which I can't access because they have blocked it!! I could have the code sent to my mobile....but I have to log onto my account to set it up!! </div>
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I am stumped on how to fix this...I am also REALLY fed up as I do everything through Hotmail: correspondence; emails; blogger contacts; copyright blog posts...I mean everything! For the last 8 years!!! It's hard to just let all that go and move somewhere else...I HAVE to figure it out {and then maybe move!?!}</div>
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Gonna get my head stuck in it again today, as I had more than this to deal with yesterday which resulted in an overwhelming day....today is a better day, even tho' the weather is utter pants!</div>
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Apologies is you have received anything suspect from me....I will let you know when it's safe!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>hello gorgeous xxx</i></span></div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-87774620883318983312012-05-27T15:57:00.002+01:002012-05-27T16:03:43.518+01:00Two things happened this weekend...<div style="text-align: center;">
Firstly, the <a href="http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/route/">Olympic Torch Relay</a> rolled into Cardiff at 6.00pm on 25th May, for two days. I was aiming to go and see it on Day 1, as it literally was a stones throw from the front door, but due to other commitments that {typically} ran on longer than they should have that day we missed it. I can't tell you how gutted I was...lump in the throat/welling tears gutted {<i>THAT</i> in itself took me by surprise} I think I was the only one in the house who <i>REALLY</i> wanted to go and see it, so it mattered to me more than them, "Mum, it's just some person running with a torch!" </div>
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Anyway Day 2 it was to be...unfortunately it began at 6.30am at Cardiff Bay! pah! <i>Fortunately</i>, I had to take my eldest to work for 6.00am and the starting point was a stones throw away from<i> his</i> place of work, bonus! Double bonus was, I found out late the night before that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Smith_(actor)">Matt Smith</a>, the current <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/s4/">Dr Who</a>, was kicking off the event! YAY!! I have come to think that the previous days events running over were fate for me to go on the second day!</div>
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It was a glorious morning, bright and sunny with just a slight hint of a breeze...truly beautiful! The crowds were out in force too...we positioned ourselves on the steps of The Senedd {Welsh Assembly} as that is where the first handover was going to be and, to my mind, my best chance of seeing "the Dr".</div>
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Time for a change up again....am about to order a new sofa for the living room, we've had ours for about 8/9 years now and the leather on it is looking a bit worse for wear, especially on the two seats that seem to be used the most. I have decided that brown is<i> SO</i> out now {fed up with the neutrel colour pallete these days} so am going for Charcoal....."charcoal is the new brown!" haha! This also means, obviously, that we get to re-decorate the living/dining rooms!! yay! *insert happy dance* </div>
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I am loving the blue/green that's in season, albeit probably the end of the season, {but then I am always slightly behind with things!!} We have decided on a gorgeous modern look paper - Arthouse Opera Retro Leaf - it has the blues and greens in as well as the charcoal and light greys too, double yay!! *insert another happy dance here!*</div>
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With this change up in mind and the thought of a nice charcoal sofa, I felt I wanted to extend this change to the blog AND, hopefully, link up the website with the same look. I had to move my domain name from Windows Live Small Business as they were closing their site, so am using my domain name through blogger....it is a work in progress {like my new venture in photography!} but with a bit of luck, over the next few months, all will become clear ;o)</div>
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We had the strangest day weather wise yesterday....it started off bathed in glorious sunshine, even if it was a little chilly! Sat in the house looking through the window at the beautiful day thinking it looked really balmy out there when suddenly the MOST enormous thunderous noise suddenly fell upon us....both the dog and I looked all around us, Millie running off all over the house, barking, checking out the "baddy" and me actually ducking on the sofa! </div>
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the Patron Saint of Wales</div>
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he died 1st March 589</div>
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<i>{Daffodils, the National flower of Wales}</i></div>
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There's always changes happening somewhere and as from tomorrow, <b>1st March 2012</b>, there will be changes happening to Google Friend Connect {that little widget on a blog you click to link when you'd like to follow it}.<br />
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What this change means for those of you who <i><b>DON'T</b></i> use Blogger as a platform {i.e. if you use Wordpress for your blog} is you will no longer be able to follow my blog {or <i>ANY</i> blog using Blogger as their platform} via Google Friend Connect, this won't affect those of you who subscribe via email or Google Reader. It also won't affect those of us who use Blogger as a host for our blog, we can still use Google Friends Connect.</div>
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For those of you who are not using Blogger I would still love you to receive my updates, so I have signed up to Bloglovin, just <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/en/blog/2217217/hello-gorgeous">click on this link</a> to take you there and click Follow...and hey presto! you're done :o)</div>
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I'm inspired daily by those of you who follow my blog and thank you for that :o)</div>
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I look forward to seeing those of you these changes effect over at Bloglovin...soon!</div>
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P.S. there's also another change come 1st March to Google's Privacy Policy, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2105435/Three-simple-steps-delete-Google-browsing-history--late.html"><i>here's a link</i></a> explaining more</div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-52892957078807901652012-02-09T13:04:00.001+00:002012-02-09T13:06:30.576+00:00Round and round it goes....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">everyday</span>...</i>like a never-ending circle, I mentally go through each step, never really getting anywhere.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">...for two years I was stuck on Step 2 with no ability of moving off it, then the fog shifted a bit and I found myself hopping up to Step 3 without any kinda notice whatsoever....I felt a sense of wonderment that I could actually grasp onto this thought, that "I <i>want</i> to do it!" Because, before that jump I didn't want to do anything; eat, breathe, sleep, nurture...nothing, nada...so the excitement of thinking that and possibly doing that was overwhelming and of course, I expected things to happen straight away but no, it was a frustrating and tantalising tidbit thrown out in my mind...as if it were a piece of paper falling from a file and then being placed back inside and re-filed in the cabinet!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">And that's where I've been for the last 730 days....on Step 3....always thinking, always pushing these steps around my head but never <i>ACTUALLY</i> getting anywhere....I am staying positive tho' because I can see myself at the top of the stairs {and <i>THAT'S</i> a positive thing in itself right there!}</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Here's a few things I want to do:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">physically create more blog posts instead of just mentally creating them...I miss it!;</div><div style="text-align: center;">keeping hold of my thought process instead of being distracted in a blink of an eye;</div><div style="text-align: center;">be brave instead of fearful;</div><div style="text-align: center;">creatively take a step forward</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>hello gorgeous xxx</i></span></div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8966761188390622822.post-29742956268790633932011-11-11T10:05:00.002+00:002011-11-12T17:26:35.749+00:00Time to Give Thanks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOU4c7-pCWBoIhxybLTJ0uiY2p0g-2WRkTG5qT0m1qkSChAPMBidCkZqp2-0MS_zI36KMJ6iw-8OzdF7jEqJsIx78oIIiKDJau3Qs2PUINuuuskWIdaVwV5BmkgsamS6AlTNIKsnj-9VY/s1600/remember.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOU4c7-pCWBoIhxybLTJ0uiY2p0g-2WRkTG5qT0m1qkSChAPMBidCkZqp2-0MS_zI36KMJ6iw-8OzdF7jEqJsIx78oIIiKDJau3Qs2PUINuuuskWIdaVwV5BmkgsamS6AlTNIKsnj-9VY/s400/remember.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Please show your gratitude and thanks today by giving two minutes of your time to fall silent for those who put their country first in order for our futures to play out safely...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Good night, sleep tight.....your courage will live forever.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">hello gorgeous xxx </span></div>hello gorgeoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18067203644935492483noreply@blogger.com1