tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54810632012-02-16T09:42:27.591Za trial .. nothing more nothing less... such is life ! A Blog written from Gloucester UKDoug Woodshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02282586890418088819noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481063.post-83619675881878954292010-04-29T19:21:00.001+01:002010-04-29T19:21:45.169+01:00

Please take a look A dark and sinister moon: dougwoods posted a photo: this pic of a d.. http://bit.ly/azn5I0

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Please take a look Hailes Abbey Gloucestershire: dougwoods posted a photo: The ruins o.. http://bit.ly/aNn1a4

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Please take a look River Severn at Westbury: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/d3wJvi

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Please take a look Stained Glass Window Burfoed Church: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/btetuJ

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Please take a look An Easter Image: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/a4XOeV

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Last night I dreamt of my own death. In my dream I was quite elderly and appeared to require medication. However, I dropped a tablet and had to kneel down to retrieve it. Upon finding the little tablet I swallowed it. After which I looked in my hand and saw four dice (3 of them were showing 6, incidentally). I had been playing with 5 dice, the fifth dice I had just swallowed. I choked to death.

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Please take a look The Long Grass Lawn: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/9JgfHo

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Please take a look Morning mist and mud: dougwoods posted a photo:This scene was taken ear.. http://bit.ly/a3LrKg

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Please take a look P1100527: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/craywU

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Please take a look Big Seagulls in Whitby: dougwoods posted a photo:I was warned that the .. http://bit.ly/97DMpY

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Please take a look Stained glass window in Tetbury church: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/cKYsvY

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Please take a look Bett 2010: dougwoods posted a photo:Nick and Chris @lagerama @crisrat o.. http://bit.ly/8aDE2R

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Please take a look Tree branches in snow and blue sky: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/6eeVRY

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This is a second test post to see if I am able to publish posts directly to this blog from Macjournal but this time there should be a picture below this text.

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Please take a look Fun in the Snow: dougwoods posted a photo:A couple of boys having fun o.. http://bit.ly/8K7Q1E

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Please take a look Grey Squirrel: dougwoods posted a photo: http://bit.ly/8PFZdM

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Please take a look Late Summer Flowers: dougwoods posted a photo:Purple cyclamen with peac.. http://bit.ly/3prXRx

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Please take a look Broadway Tower: dougwoods posted a photo:An image of Broadway Tower on .. http://bit.ly/1gXePh

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Please take a look Cat in the leaves: dougwoods posted a photo:Midge, our tabby cat, playi.. http://bit.ly/12UFtT

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Kontain: Your Friend Sent You A Link Hello,Your friend deerwood wants to share this update with you.You can also click or paste this link into a browser:http://www.kontain.com/deerwood/entries/44924/pembrokeshire/Yours,The Kontain Teamwww.kontain.com

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From: EngadgetURL: http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/04/t-mobile-pulse-hands-on-with-video-android-meets-3-5-inch-lcd/Sent from: Doug (deerwood9@hotmail.com)Sent to: doug.woods.deerwood@blogger.comComments: I really like the look of this. Pity it's only on T-mobileT-Mobile Pulse hands-on (with video): Android meets 3.5-inch LCD, loves it09-04-2009We couldn't get a handle on what at first seemed so

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Radar Love by Golden earing Big Log by Robert Plant Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner

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Have just submitted one of my old websites as the worst on the web.http://www.lookandseek.com

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I found this fascinating quote today:The most common question asked by all home owners. For your information, fixed rate mortgages often have higher interest rates than floating rates. The answer is simple, by fixing the interest rate; the banks are taking a risk. If interest rate plunges, it does not concern the banks at all. If the interest rates rise, the banks will lose out in terms of

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Oh for crying out loud! I just found out I have not updated this since last year... You would not believe how insane my life has become. I'm so sorry!.I am so busy with my obsession of saving money, personal projects, just generally being asleep, dreaming and chancing to society in general, my day is full to overflowing from crawling out of bed at 6.30 to 11pm at which point I fall asleep on the

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This year's 'Must Have' Christmas toy is not going to be the Wii or a PS3 or Optimus Prime transformer. This year's hot seller is going to be a little unusual, it is going to be a kettle!The Tefal Quick Cup kettle promises to deliver hot water for tea or coffee in only 3 seconds. Yes, you heard it right, 3 seconds!This is not only a great 'toy' for those who crave their caffeine shot right now!

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 Quite right. Does anybody really think it is fair and democratic for one political party to simply appoint the leader of the country? I have said this many times before in the past, It is fine for a political party to appoint its leader when it is an opposition party but if the Government wishes to change its leader, then it should call a general election. It should be the electorate which

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In my work as an ICT consultant and trainer, one of my biggest problems is the number of school staff who are not conversant with basic ICT skills. This article only tends to confirm what I have found in schools. The most worrying aspect I find is that newly qualified teachers are often the ones with the least ICT knowledge, this really calls for a bigger input into ICT as part of teacher

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This is a test post to see how live writer links and updates my weblog online. You will see that I have inserted a picture into this entry. It will be interesting to see how the picture is rendered in the blog.  This line should appear after the image. so let's see if it gets it right!

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I recently decided to join a loacl fitness centre or gym. Basically, my reason for doing this is that I am unfit. The change in lifestyle since leaving teaching has led to me getting rather portly and lethargic, I am also overweight. My goals are to lose weight, lose the beer belly and become fitter.

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Oludeniz Boat Trip Originally uploaded by dougwoods.Just returned from a week vacation at Oludeniz in Turkey. We both had a wonderful time there. The weather was wonderful and hot, around 35 degrees. The best part of the holiday was going white water rafting down the Dalaman river.

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I found this article on mobile learning.M-learning Innovations 2: The latest innovations

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EducationGuardian.co.uk E-learning More teachers getting to grips with ICT, says report

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Hello, this is a test for using blogger for word.This little program  has been installed on  my laptop and now, or so it seems, anything I type into word can be sent straight to my blog.(image placeholder)(image placeholder)

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Engadget: "USB cuff linksPosted Feb 7th 2006 7:00PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: WirelessYou'll want to take a peek Tonia Welter's USB cuff links not only because we here at Engadget encourage you to get a little dandy from time to time, but because this is the timeless kind of gadget you can actually pass down to your son or son-in-law on their wedding day without looking like a complete oldster (

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It's Your Life Take Control: "If you seem to spend much of your life doing things for other people, if being ordered about from dawn till dusk is a normal component of your life, do something about it. Perhaps you love being wit..."

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Last night, Gloucestershire had its first snowfall of the season. Yes, I know we had some snow on Christmas day but that didn't settle and did not last long. Also, I admit it did not snow last night here in Gloucester itself. This morning, Dianne and I went up to Painswick Beacon, which is in the foothills of the Cotswolds. there they had had snow overnight. Dianne was like a little girl and

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Last night, Dianne and I went to see the movie, 'Closer'. Gee, what was all that about? What a dreadful movie! The movie was difficult to follow as it kept cutting into the future, normally when a film does that, you see a subtitle reading 'One year later...' or something like that. NOt in this movie, though, you just learn that you have moved ahead when one of the actors says something like '

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It is good to hear that my favourite writer, Ian McEwan has a new novel coming out soon. The novel is called Saturday and an extract from it was published in the Guardian newspaper yesterday. I had a quick look on Amazon UK and they the book will be available from the end of January. The amazon.co.uk link is here. and the amazon.com link is here.

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While using Blog Explosion, I have noticed some strange things happen to Google ads. Many blogs, not all but certainly many, display Google ads similar to the ones displayed here on the left. Now usually, the ads displayed have some relevance to the content of the blog. So in my case, the ads are often about counselling or life coaching. However, when surfing via Blog Explosion, I notice that

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I am not one to spread rumours but I read this article today which appears to claim that the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami was not a catastrophe of nature but may have been the result of man's activities in the area. All I'll do is post a link and let you decide for yourself. Either way, there are a lot of people out there who need help.

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It is hard to believe that it is now 2005. It is even harder to believe that it is now 5 years since the turn of the century. Does anyone remember the millennium? Does anyone recall all the hullabaloo surrounding the Y2K bug and all the hype that went with it? Do you remember how we all sat waiting to see what went wrong, whether aeroplanes would fall out of the sky, whether our computers would

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A happy new year to each and everyone who celebrates the change of year at this time. My thoughts go especially to the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. My wife and I spent our honeymoon in Sri Lanka, a very beautiful country, and we are saddened by the destruction and the great loss of life. May rebuilding be a priority in the coming year.

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Me, shortly after Christmas. 

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The wife and I shortly after Christmas The MORAL of these photographs is; Don't let your daughter loose with a digital camera at Christmas.

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Here is a simple question for you to answer; What were the 3 best things that happened to you in 2004? This question is designed to make you feel good about yourself; instead of thinking about the negative things, you are asked to think about the positive things. It does not matter how small the positive thing was, just thinking about it is enough to make you feel good. It doesn't even matter

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I had been using one of the standard blogger templates for a long time, so I decided it was time for a change. The result is what you now see on the screen. Please let me know what you think. I have designed it for a resolution of 1024x768 so please let me know how it appears at other resolutions.

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Well, what a great Christmas day we had! I think it would be right to say that this was a quiet Christmas, just Dianne, myself, The Mother in Law and daughter Becky. In some ways, I think a family Christmas is the best kind. What really made it a bit special this year was the snow, only flurries for about an hour before the Christmas lunch but it sure did help make the atmosphere festive. Before

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'tis the night before Christmas And all round the tree Lay piles of presents For each in the family. May I take this moment to wish each and every one of you who comes to this little site, a joyous christmas, a happy new year and a merry good night

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Aah ginger...don't you just love it! 

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Recently the BBC published a list of 50 foods to eat before you die .. see hereI was very surprised to see that two of my favourite food items were not on the list.. namely Olives and Ginger. These are two of God's greatest gifts to mankind. Along with the Jalapeno and habanero chillies! 

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I always think that one of the saddest things is to spend Christmas on your own. In the past, I have spent a few Christmas days on my own and I know how lonely it felt for me. Christmas is quite rightly seen as a time for families and loved ones to be together. If you cannot be with your family or loved ones, for whatever reason, then Christmas can be hard to bear. Even friends might find it hard

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I have already got a few small presents for the wife but I need to get something special. I have been scratching my head and cannot think of anything she'd really like. I know she wants some new boots but we've agreed that we'll wait until the sales to get those. Some nice perfume might be good, a little item of jewelry perhaps, a new husband? Anyone got any ideas?

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Christmas shopping is almost done. It really is difficult this year especially with the financial situation so precarious this year. Did the last (I hope) of the christmas food shopping today and for the first time I began to feel uneasy about spending money. One firm I have done work for, owes me a little over £2k, I had hoped to see that before Christmas, another firm owes me £400+ outstanding

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Well, the stepson will not be with us this Christmas, he has decided to spend the time with his father. This is only fair as he has not had Christmas day with his father since the divorce. However, I only wish he could have told us in better circumstances; he was rather nasty to his mother by not inviting her to his graduation ceremony recently, instead he invited his father and new partner. This

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This Sunday, my wife took her school chir to sing carols at Berkeley Castle. The first set of carols were sung in the courtyard, it was very cold but the choir sang well. The second set of acrols were sung in the great hall beside a blazing log fire. In the hall, the children's voices were lovely. Despite some chaotioc organisation (or lack of) on the part of the Castle staff, the afternoon went

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Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well. An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly. You are also good at remembering information and convicing someone of your point of view. A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary. You would make a fantastic

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Mind Hacks I thought this looks like an interesting site for anyone interested in how their brain works (or doesn't!). I see the book that comes with it, is now available from Amazon UK so I think I might just buy it and learn all about my brain (or lack of it!)

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Be a Better Person Some of you will know that I work as a personal adviser and counsellor, I'm also studying as a Life Coach. As New Year, many people make resolutions or at least try to think of ways in which they can change over the coming year. One of the best and most common ways of starting out on any journey of personal change is to read books! I have put together a short list of books

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This weekend, we had my father over for the weekend. I should say that my father lives over the other side of the country in Suffolk. So I had to drive over early on Saturday morning to pick him up. As usual whenever I go over there, I had to fix a couple of things on his PC, thankfully not big or major things this time. Then just before midday, I drove him back over to Gloucester. The reason

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Right now there is a quite eery yellow-orangey glow in the sky where the sun is setting. I can see it sinking behind the bare branches of the trees. Just above the orange glow is a light brown hazy cloud drifting past like smoke.

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well, I have not posted much for a few days, I've been playing around using Blog Explosion. Then I came to the realisation, that each time I visit a couple of blogs, one person visits mine. Yet these people are not going to see anything new here. So this post is just a bit of filling until I have something interesting to blog about! MInd you, if anyone has anything interesting to tell me ...

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Coaching is a booming industry, and a much-desired skill for managers, but one thing is becoming clear - the traditional methods have shortfalls, and the old models are looking tired. The vast majority of coaching books are founded upon the GROW model, which is now exhausted its flaws are beginning to show.Too many coaching interventions fail because they assume the person being coached wants to

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Continuing my theme of pinching ideas from other people (LOL), this one came from here The idea is that you leave me a comment here, just to say hello. Then you say hello to whoever left a comment before you, to do this you click on a link and leave their blog a comment saying 'Deerwood sent me.' Could be fun.

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I read this little exercise on someone's blog (sorry I cannot remember which one). So I thought I'd give it a go. The exercise said; Take the nearest book, open it to page 23 and read the fifth sentence. Then say what that sentence means to you. Well, I did just that. The nearest book was Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. I turned to page 23 and read the 5th sentence. "Water is precious and

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Please make my job easier. This year, I shall be working as a grant assessor for the BBC Children in Need appeal. The training has certainly opened my eyes. I had not realised that each year the fund receives requests for grants many times more than the funds it has available. It seems that each year the Children in Need fund can only support about 33 to 45% of the funding requested of it.

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Last weekend, Dianne and I went to Worcester, where we bought the first of our gifts for this year's christmas. This weekend, we went into Cheltenham and were surprised by how many people were doing the same thing; buying Christmas presents! We came back with another two or three gifts for family and relatives. We were also surprised by the new park-and-ride buses in Cheltenham. It appears

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Very saddened today to hear of the death of Emlyn Hughes (aka Crazy Horse) one time captain of Liverpool and international soccer player. Apparently he died of brain tumour and will be much missed.

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Last weekend here in England, the national news was reporting a train crash between a high speed train and a car on a level crossing. At first they were reporting just one person dead but later this rose to six then seven. At times such as this, one's sympathies are obviously extended to the families, relatives and friends of those whi lost their life in such a disaster. One should also have

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I've been thinking recently about the topic of 'motivation'. What is motivation? How do we become motivated? How do we improve motivation? It seems to me that motivation is akin to an emotion. It is like 'desire' or possibly 'hunger'. It seems that motivation is something that makes us want to change or move from where we are or else to preserve where we are or what we have from something worse.

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Confidentiality is important in coaching as it is necessary for a client to feel able to ‘open up’ and be honest with their coach. The client needs to feel able to talk about sensitive issues that may be affecting their performance and which need to be addressed. For this to happen, the client needs to feel assured by the confidentiality of the coach.Confidentiality is allied to trust and

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Just discovered this link which gives pictures of bands who owe their break in the music world to John Peel

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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As well as reading 'Don't Sweat the small stuff...', I have also started to read Barefoot Doctor Manifesto: ". What first drew me to this book was a magazine article that explained how the barefoot doctor applies taoist (or daoist if you must) principles to modern life. It is also the style of the book that interested me. It is very humourous, perhaps a little bit offensive in its language at

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I've recently been reading Don't Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson. It is a great little book and an easy read. It contains short chapters based upon a wide range of techniques or aphorisms for leading an easier life. I'd recommend anyone to give it a read. Some of the things he says appear very simple, not that there is anything wrong in that except that it is easy to dismiss them just

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I guess each of us, guys anyway as I cannot speak for girls, grows up with our 'heroes'. That is to say the people we admire or look up to in life. Sometimes these 'heroes' can be fictitious, such as characters in a book, sometimes these heroes can be historical, sometimes they can be real people. When your hero is a real person, they may not think of themselves as being heroes. That does not

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Very sad today to hear of the sudden death of the DJ John Peel who had a heart attack while on holiday in Peru. I had listened to John Peel's radio programmes for many years and he influenced much of my choice in music. More recently, I have become, along with my wife, a listener to his Radio 4 programme, 'Home Truths' which presented a laconic (if that's the right word) and humourous look on

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Well our son, my stepson, has now moved away from home. We went to visit him in his new home for the first time yesterday. It was good to see him and his partner settling into their house. It's good to see him with a job and hopefully a career ahead of him. It is all exciting for him and it is a bit sad for my wife. She appears torn between two emotions, the happiness of seeing him get set up,

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Like many other people, I have signed up for Blog Explosion. Not sure yet if it will work in drawing more people to view this blog but I'm willing to give it a go. So if you do come here via blog explosion, please drop me a comment and say hello. Thanks Sindy for drawing my attention to this. Other blogs of mine you might like to try; Live Journal Ecademy BBCity

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Rapport is important in coaching. The rapport between coach and client is important in determining the success of the coaching process. Rapport involves a relationship of trust that enables an open exchange of views. Rapport involves comfort and confidence. The client must have confidence and comfort with their coach and the process. Ideally the client needs to feel a sense of rapport with the

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I you were to visualise yourself relaxing on a warm sunny beach with the warm sun slowly warming your fingers and toes, you would probably start to feel some warmth in those toes and fingers. If visualisation can affect us physically, can it be used to affect us mentally, say, to improve our self esteem?Let us take the example of a client who is facing redundancy. For them, the redundancy is all

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Eye contact is something I regard as over-rated. There is a white middle class conceit that says that eye contact is important for communication. This is nonsense, if it were true no one would use a telephone.Eye contact is a cultural thing. A teacher or adult, who demands that a child looks her in the eye when she is talking to them, is more interested in ‘control’ than ‘communication’. As a

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Here is a picture of Florence (Firenze) 

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I believe that every person is fundamentally good. It is sometimes their actions, words or what they represent that may be 'bad' or with which I disagree. Fundamentally each person is good and valued.This is an empowering belief for me as it enables me to accept people and to work with a wider range of people in counselling, coaching and in teaching. The belief removes barriers and enables me to

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To end a great Saturday, Dianne and I were looking for something to do or somewhere to go. We had thought about a movie or the theatre, which we both enjoy. The local cinemas really had little good on, mainly kids stuff or violent films which neither of us are really into. The local theatre in Cheltenham did have a good show but that night was the closing night and all seats were booked. So

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Later this same saturday afternoon, the wife and I had a great time. Dianne had made a fantastic meal of chicken (well, quorn in fact, as I'm vegetarian) in red pesto sauce that she had made herself, with rice and chopped summer vegetables. It was absolutely delicious and made a great meal for the two of us by candlelight. I think what made the situation all the more special was that both of

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well, having on saturday taken the mother in law to collect her sewing machine, our (the wife and I) next task was to lay a new patio at the bottom of her garden. We collected all we needed from a local diy store and drove over to the mother-in-law's house. We had cleared the area and had made a start on the work the provious weekend, so today's job should be a lot easier. Well I guess it was,

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See, I told you Stroud was a grey dirty place! 

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Just want to say what a great day Saturday was. I awoke after a good sleep (that always helps!) and after a light breakfast drove over to pick up the Mother-In-Law. The mother in law is very keen (and very good) at sewing but her sewing machine had developed a fault the week before and had been taken in to be repaired at a small shop in Stroud. I may have mentioned before that I hate Stroud,

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If we each knew what the purpose of our life was, we could set goals to help us achieve it. Each of us may feel we have our own purpose in life. That purpose is in keeping with our values, especially our 'core' or most important values. So to find our own uniquelife purpose, we need to identify our own core values.When we have identified our values, we can set our life goals or career goals or

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I believe that being independent and self reliant is a positive attribute. Consequently, I value times when I can do things on my own without help. I also value the work I do in helping other people become more self reliant and work on their own.However, I also recognise that there are times when I should call upon support to help me tackle something I cannot do or which could be better done by

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I know I feel a sense of achievement, sometimes pride, when a child I have been teaching does something by themselves for the first time. When I achieve something by myself I feel a sense of achievement. When others have helped me achieve then I feel a sense of ‘what’s next?’ This is evidence to me of my belief in self reliance.I used to believe that crowds were bad. This was based in my

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This bank holiday, the wife, myself and two friends from Yorkshire spent our time in Cornwall at the little harbour village of Mevagissey. Mevagissey is a traditional Cornish fishing village with a few nice pubs serving real ale. We stayed at a small farmhouse just outside the village and used that as a base for walking along the clifftops with their spectacular scenery and views of little coves

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Mevagissey Harbour 

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I recall passing my driving test, at the third attempt. I knew that with my instructor I could drive the car perfectly well. Yet nerves and an expectation of failure affected me as I faced my next test. This time, instead of going through my head with thoughts of everything I had to do and how to do it, I simply repeated to myself ‘just do it’. This new self talk was positive and raised no

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In 1980, I became a qualified teacher. That year was the first year since the age of 5 that I had not had to face an exam. That was the first year I did not have to prove myself to anybody, did not have to strive to get a pass and did not confront myself with the possibility of failure. For a solid 18 years of my life I had had to face not one or two but a series of exams in both autumn and

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Our values are important to us. They determine how we live our lives, they govern our behviours and our attitudes, they influence how we interact with other people and the environment, they affect how we interpret other people, their actions, words and behaviours. We are affected by values in ourselves, in other people, in society and in its institutions. We perceive values in politics,

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My belief that crowds were bad prevented me from going to parties etc and placed limits on my social experiences.My belief in self reliance has enabled me to work with disabled children to make them as self reliant as possible. It has focused my career into ‘caring’ professions and has also meant that I turned away from promotions that I felt would take me away from the ‘caring’ aspects. My

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