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♥ Happiness
One of the things I wrote about in the early days of JAA was the then just-launched Action for Happiness movement in the UK . I heard this morning, via Twitter, that Action for Happiness is three years...
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♥ In the Garden
Lately I have neglected the blog in favour of doing some gardening. Now, my garden is an atom of a thing as it is truly pocket-handkerchief size, so it’s hard, in retrospect, to credit that doing very...
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♥ Lately …
Lately has been all about my house and garden. Yesterday I went to a rare and special plant fair which was held at Kilruddery House in county Wicklow. Now my knowledge of things horticultural could be...
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♥ Blog On …
To blog or not to blog that is the question. When I set up Just Add Attitude I didn’t have an iota of a notion whether I would simply write four or five posts and then stop, or if I … Continue reading →
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♥ So pleased …
Filling in the online application was as easy as gliding down an oiled slide. I was applying for a place, at a College of Further Education, to do a year’s full-time course in photography: the...
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♥ Out Walking
Yesterday, knowing that today is the longest day, I briefly considered that I might get up this morning pre-dawn and go out with my camera seeking pictures of daybreak. Very briefly! Laziness won and...
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♥ Why I Like Quotes. So Much
The Irish writer Josephine Hart (1942 – 2011), who was fiercely passionate about poetry and about bringing it to a wider audience, said of the literary medium she loved: “Poetry, this trinity of sound,...
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♥ Hello From The Cotswolds
Greeting from the Cotswolds where I have been since Monday evening and which I leave on Friday to make my way a little further south to stay with old friends for the weekend before returning home via...
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Lately …
I could claim that the recent lack of a blog post was due to the pressure of a maddeningly long to-do list but that would be economical with the truth because the reality is said lack is down to my …...
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Photography Course. So Far …
I am now officially a full-time student as I started my year-long photography course in September. The course has eight modules five of which have a direct relationship with photography: theory,...
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Stress Central
Oops! It’s been a while since my last blog post. That’s because I have been an attendee at an unwished for stress festival. Now, in truth I don’t usually have an unruly amount of stress in my life....
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Scary Stuff
‘Tis the season of scary stuff: ghosts and ghouls; tricking and treating; spooky spiders and other freaky frights. None of the above actually scare me but there are other things that do, such as:...
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Lately …
Apologies for the quality of some of the images in this post. I wish I could blame my ‘second-best camera’ but the faults are all mine! Last week, a couple of months into my photography course, I had a...
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Kindness
I love this short video with its message about kindness. The speaker is legendary television producer John Llyod whose credits include: Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, and Blackadder. The...
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Lately …
Lately it seems as if time has ghosted by and yet Christmas 2014 still feels as if it is as far away as the twenty-fifth century. And I have been absent from the blog. Again! That’s because, for the...
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Christmas Eve
So another year has spun around and it’s Christmas time again. This morning I headed into the city centre. Traffic was light so I was all parked up just before eight o’clock and I started the day...
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So, it’s 2015
The tumbling over of one year to the next is traditionally seen as a time to slew off bad habits and replace them with dizzyingly good ones in the hope of creating improved versions of ourselves. Thus...
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Bathroom Project
Memory is fine-china fragile: this is both a good and a bad thing. A good thing because sometimes certain things are best forgotten quickly. Having builders in is a case in point. No matter how good a...
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The No-Kitchen Diet and a Blogging Break
Ugh, ugh, and ugh to the power of infinity: I have put on weight over the last twelve months. Not a hideously dramatic amount but enough nonetheless to ensure that many of my clothes feel uncomfortably...
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It’s Been A While …
It's been a long time since I last posted on JAA. I didn't intend to stop blogging. I just needed, for a couple of months, to devote most of my energy to sorting something out, something I wasn't...
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