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It’s been a long time….(an quick update)

 Getting from there to here. It’s been a long time….yes, that is quite enough of that thank you Christine. I do seem to have a bit of a propensity for using a phrase and then finding a song that has that phrase in it and singing the song.

Anyway - it has been a while since I last wrote, and to be honest I’ve been feeling a bit…lost almost? A bit …meh? Everything seems like a big effort, and then I wonder if I’m actually making any progress at all. I’ve decided that today is that day for a fresh start in all sorts of ways; I’ve not run much in the past week, although I have done some wild swimming. It is funny to me that people call swimming in the sea ‘wild swimming’. To me it is just swimming; I grew up on an island, and my dad loved sailing, so from a very early age I was around water, and was regularly swimming in the sea - that was just normal! Anyway - as a result of me buying a new swimming costume, and joining the Facebook group for the Bluetits in our area, it would appear that I’m about to embark on the Wild Swimmer badge.

I’ve been keeping up with a few other badges as well - I have finished a piece of weaving so that my Craft badge is now complete. I’ve been working on Good Habits, and have completed the Fitness badge. Two months ago I started learning Spanish with DuoLingo, and that is going quite well. In addition I’ve done a fair amount of work on My Goals. 

Like another Rebel I seem to be a serial starter - I start a lot of things, - and this year I plan to finish more of them, and so the work starts here! And that work includes updating this blog regularly to give progress on my badge work.



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