can you feel it?

"Where do you know her from?" the guy I lift-share with asked me as we clambered into the car after the gig.
"I've just met her," I replied.
She'd come over and asked if I did hugs. A better response at this point might have been "Does the Pope pray?" but when you're talking to a vicar you've just met, you can't always be certain of the appropriateness of religious humour. She felt we were kindred spirits and I agreed. We had just a couple of minutes chatting after the hug, but I've now found her on facebook and I'm hoping it's the start of a beautiful friendship. Tho the actual start was perhaps in the interval when I approached to check if she wanted a brew bringing out to her as she was stuck on the raffle table rather than able to make her way into the refreshments hall. When I returned she was so grateful, I explained it's part of my strategy for supporting leadership :)

It was a day of connections really (unlike other days how?!). I thoroughly enjoyed the training I was on, looking at the dance of reciprocity and considering other terminology for things I already do a lot of :) And there was cake :D

A song in my head tho is a round that I learned at girl guides that goes "Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver but the other gold." Now I'm of the view that silver and gold like everything else, are simply part of creation that we have ascribed differing value to when they're actually both beautiful (and in my view no more beautiful than say a leaf. I can see pitfalls tho in a bartering system based around leaf circulation). So to all of you reading this whether you have known me a long time or not, I'm sending love and images of vibrant-coloured autumnal leaves. Enjoy :D

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next year im not giving up anything for lent. life is hard enough without getting these extra challenges chucked at me. today has been tough :( Just waited an hour in a queue to get through to HMRC having opened a letter saying I had a £100 penalty for not filling in a form (one I'd been told back in oct6 2013 that i didn't have to fill in). Now I've spoken to someone it does indeed appear that it was an error on their part but for that hour i wasn't very patient. It's also just so flipping lonely when I have challenges like this and don't have folk to lean on/cry with. The co-housing at the weekend was so appealing. Once the kids have left home I will be sorely tempted. The other challenges of the day like the broken eggs I'd cheerfully taken in my stride. But then a tipping point comes and that's then that. The dog isn't being very patient now. Grrrr.