Who do you want to be

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

The Obama Time Capsule

http://www.amazon.com/OBAMA-TIME-CAPSULE-History-Making/dp/B0025VKZ02

Cycle to Paris

Sadly having struggled to reach my target to go to Chile.. i am changing my challenge and cycling to Paris in the springtime, next year - plenty of time to get cycling legs :) and raise the target amount. So please keep on sponsering me!

Thank you very much for all the support so far and hope the team going out to Chile will have a great time. All the money, that i have raised so far has already gone to Computer Aid and will count towards my new target of £1300's.

im looking forward to cycling along the Seine and eating lots of pain au chocolats!

http://www.justgiving.com/cycleforchile/

Felipe Massa

Get well soon

Reindeer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZF5S5ko8dc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5l6nHAuX7M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BSmmzi2FLo&feature=related

Bubble-y Art Project

A happy blog
http://colormekatie.blogspot.com/

French lavender

Busy cutting lavender before the heavy rain and thunder makes it too damp, but left plenty for the bees. My mum makes lavender wands, weaving ribbon somehow between long sticks, you need an odd number and they need to be fresh.

During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was often 'strewn' on the floors of homes, castles and streets to keep insects away and mask smells. Ho hum

Below are links for uses of lavender - not so sure about using lavender in food, i made some lavender biscuits and felt ill for some time near lavender
http://www.howtodothings.com/health-and-fitness/a3410-how-to-use-lavender.html
http://healthmad.com/alternative/10-uses-for-lavender/

Thousands of French chipmunks heading west across Europe

Thousands of chipmunks carrying potentially fatal diseases have been spreading west across Europe and have reached Paris. In the woods around northern Paris, there are estimated to be more than 100,000.

The chipmunks are not shy and are very approachable and look very sweet and cuddly.

French experts warn that the animals, which can carry rabies and ticks causing Lyme disease, could soon reach Calais and sneak aboard vehicles and vessels heading to Britain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1201456/Fears-diseased-French-chipmunk-plague-reach-Britain.html

Anim8or

http://www.anim8or.com/main/index.html
http://www.tysonibele.com/

Auction Sunday July 26th for Computer Aid International at the White Horse Pub in Ditchling

Thanks to all the local support, we raised £240s last night and two of the prizes have been given back to auction this Sunday

** Round of Golf for 4 at Mid Sussex Golf Club
** Personal training session for 1 hour with Sam at Esporta

Badger crash

Cycling in the hour before it gets dark and four small pointy nose things shot out from a bank making funny noises, infront of me, behind me and strait through the bicycle ...maybe they had stood for a while waiting to go across the road and one of them had said "Go" ...Realised i was screaming quite a bit and trying to lift my feet up, thinking they would bite me. but they all ran off again.

Evening chill in the air

althou its still summer, a sea wind rustling the leaves and an early evening chill and maybe just because i was feeling a little sad walking somewhere a few days ago, felt very much for a moment like somewhere id been before

Ditchling Beacon

Muddy and wet but finally made it by bike to the top of Ditchling Beacon and down.. very scary.. well took the long but slightly easier way up past Jack and Jill Windmills, past a lot of sheep

Be first to tour the Olympic stadium

Enter before midnight on Sunday 12th July
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/open-weekend/olympic-stadium-competition.php

London 2012 Open Weekend 2009... 24-26th July
http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/open-weekend/event-search.php

Japanese Legends

When i was little my parents told us storys when we went to bed that they made up. One was about a mouse that lived in a drawer under the cooker, others about our chinese geese Chow and Lei that lived in the orchard and then there was finger man and stinky poo that lived in the medicine cupboard and came to school with us. Somewhere in their attic is an old tape machine with these storys.

Thought about this today, for no particular reason or maybe because of a Clematis called Fuji-Musume, with beautiful sky blue flowers which is also a famous classical dance from the Kabuki theater in Japan. Fuji (wisteria) Musume (maiden)...a tale about the 'Wisteria Maiden'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEigoV9nYXg
http://www.dragonstrike.com/mrk/myths.htm
http://through-the-sapphire-sky.blogspot.com/

An army of chimps escaped from their enclosure at lunchtime today

and made their way to their keepers area where their food is prepared, causing Chester Zoo to be evacuated. After lunch, the chips returned to their enclosures, some with very full bellys. :O)

Food Inc, the movie - watch the trailer

How much do we really know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families?
http://www.foodincmovie.com/

Blue Guitar - The Moody Blues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oNXdv8S4QY&feature=channel_page