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Wellbeing Weekend

Had my good friend Beryl Whiting to stay last weekend. She brought her eLybra Bio Resonance machine with her and ran it on me for a couple of sessions.  Besides being an eLybra practitioner, Beryl is also a highly skilled coach and by the Saturday afternoon I'd gone out and bought a rebounder and a Swiss ball with those stretchy pull things attached.  You see, slthough there's a residents' gym and pool in this development, I've not really been using it. Despite knowing only too well the benefits of regular exercise, even that short walk across the development and past the builders, was proving demotivational. With the rebounder, I don't have to leave my flat and I can do it to my favourite music!

We didn't walk as much as we'd planned owing to the cold -  and some great movies we wanted to watch together... Down The Rabbit Hole, The Secret (about my 5th time) and Brokeback Mountain (are Heath Ledger and Jonny Wilkinson long lost brothers? - see pic above)

We treated ourselves to ate delicious and nutritious home-cooked food and laughed a lot at our obsession with it!  Here's a quick rundown of the weekend's menus... lentil and veg curry with brown rice, carrot, chickpea, lime and ginger salad with halloumi, green leaves and oatcakes, roasted tomato, pepper and butter bean soup with rye bread, roasted root veg and tofu with peas and carrots and breakfasts of fresh fruit (blueberries, raspberries, apple, mango and pineapple) with various seeds and natural yoghurt.)

For me, that was a perfect 'wellbeing' weekend. What's your idea of a perfect weekend as far as your wellbeing goes?

Beauty and the Beach (geddit?)

Had my parents come over for a few days this last weekend. On the Saturday, we spent most of the day walking around the wooded valleys, beaches and cliffs of Nash Point and Monknash.  The tide was right out at Monknash revealing some amazing rock structures and I was determined to find a fossil. As the tide started to turn and we headed back an unusual pattern on one flat rock caught my eye, we washed the sand off to reveal this...

That's my Dad's size 10 foot there so you can get an idea of just how big it was. 

Minutes later, something else caught my eye - I found a lump of quartz or something like it jarred between 2 sections of the natural rock 'pavementing'.

I am absolutely loving being so connected with nature. 

I heard something today about a 'church' in the woods near Hereford for tree huggers.  As you have probably worked out by now - I have been known to hug the odd tree and it's also true that I sleep with a rock I picked up from Ogmore beach a few miles round the coast from where we found this fossily thing, so maybe I'll have to check this woodland church thing out. So if you know anything about it, do spill the beans!