Hello again WA. Well, it's been several months since I sat here and 'penned' my last entry. Sadly I've slid down 1200 points in the ranks - not surprisingly. Many thanks for all the new follows in my absence, although I don't deserve them. The reason for the time out was that I had to go back to my 'real' job for the summer. I had every intention of getting back here as soon as it was over. But... what happened? Upon returning to my home, I saw what a mess it was. So I spent a month declutterin

When I started at WA it was with the intention of being able to run my own business without having to be beholden to anyone else. I could run my life on my terms and make time for the pleasurable bits without having to worry. I was prepared to follow all the steps and the goal was to be making money within six months. Simple right? Ahem. Tell god your plans and she'll have a good laugh. Life has a funny habit of getting in the way. (Perhaps it's myself, but I guess it's where you place the impo

Hi All. It's been a couple of weeks since I blogged and the reason is I've been trying to reconcile the differences with what I'm trying to do with what is really going on in my part of the world. You may or may not have seen the dreadful mining disaster in Soma, Turkey last week. This place is just 300-400 km from where I live, and the effect has been to add insult to injury to an already simmering situation. I'm not in the habit of talking politics, but I've never been reduced to tears by a p

Love the way the universe spurs us into action. Last week I wrote on my profile, tell god your plans and she'll have a good laugh. Well I bet she was ROFL this morning. Having decided on the niche of natural cleaning products, I've been trying to locate some locally to test. I've got to know what I'm talking about. But that a pretty tall order in here in Turkey. I've found a website, but it's all in Turkish. The supermarkets are very um, well let's say I've found 2 types of washing up liq

...Or Thursday Morning Rambling Thoughts About Learning To Write Differently From How I Was Taught At School... 1. The Word "BLOG" Too much like Blurb and Blah blah blah. Since the advent of the wonderful web, so many new words have entered the global lexicon. Each time a new one comes along, I internally wince. "Google" has become a verb, as in "I'll just Google it". "This site uses cookies" has me envisaging someone shooting up a packet of HobNobs. And the worst - "Dongle" "Has anyone seen