Napalm Flame

Beans and Rice it is, then!

I won't be digging that out again -

even if I have to survive on beans and rice!

Pictures of Stourhead I meant to post earlier!

Snow

From the bedroom window today

Where it all started...

Guess who that is!? So this is where I get it from! This is a picture of me with my Grandad in his shed making stuff. Do you like my golden jumper? - my shed clothes:) We're actually making a bar skittles game and I remember that day vividly. Look how messy the shed is! He gave me lots of time and personal commitment. We used to create things from seemingly nothing - scraps and offcuts mainly.

I was chatting to Mike Wilshire from the Executive Foundation (http://www.executive-foundation.com/) and he's convinced that our past experience way back can shape our purposes, and this is how this memory came to the fore. I was about 4 years old there I think. As I spoke to him about my philosophy, he observed that it's no wonder I give those people who inspire me my personal time and commitment; and, in a sense, craft people's future from where ever they are with their finances - creating for them a personal Financial Road Map: their version of a bar skittles game, a wooden Farm, a wooden Fort and countless other creations that came out of that ramshackle little shed with my Grandad.

As he used to say to me when I struggled with the the saw that was bigger than me, "there's no such thing as can't".

Anything was possible. And it still is.

Loved the Oolong!

Thank you Ryan James of the fabulous Essential Marketing http://www.essential-marketing.com/ for your invitation to your gathering at Attic Tea in Bristol last night - a unique experience and great company.

Very priveleged to be in the company of so many that 'get' altruistic business development.

I look forward to drinking the very drinkable and refreshing Oolong! Pity they ran out of the Zing blend - would have bought that too. There's always another day :)

31 million light years away

One light year is 5,878,630,000,000 miles in distance. That is over 5.8 trillion miles away. That's a huge distance away. The Earth is a tiny speck in the Milky Way Galaxy - and the Milky Way is 'only' 100,000 x 5.8 trillion miles across. This is found 31 million x 5.8 trillion miles away! This image was captured with The Hubble Telescope and is the "X" Structure at Core of Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). More on light years? See this 'You Tube' video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj1sDWjvgjM