Tips To Improve Your Well being

• Smile. Whether you feel like smiling or not, it makes you feel and look better, and other people respond better to you as well.
  
• Stop comparing your life with other people, especially celebrities. Most of them are worried sick about slipping down the charts or not getting offered the best roles. Their self-obsession means that they are rarely capable of holding down a happy and loving relationship.
  
• Keep a journal.  Imagine it’s being written for the future you and make it a good account of your life, filled with humour and positive insights. Make your tone brave and optimistic. Adopting this writing style will enable you to change your perspective of what’s happening to you.
  
• Compliment yourself and like yourself, the more you like yourself the happier you will be

Adobe Dreamweaver and Web Design

While trying to teach myself web design I waste so much time going not getting anywhere. I am in a world of my own, unaware that the hands of the clock just whizz round.

A local community school in Cowplain is offering a short course of 4 lessons of one and a half hours duration.  It's excellent value at only £3.50 per lesson.

In Web Page Design Part One, I will be using Dreamweaver to construct a 4 page website. I will be shown how to upload this site onto the Internet. I will also have web-space as part of this deal with this course.

As I can't justify the expense I don't have a copy of Dreamweaver but I am sure there must be some free open source alternatives.

Best Free Online Services and Applications

Gizmo has compiled a list of the very best free online applications and services, for the link click here

A Little Experiment

I've created this entry as an experiment using Adobe Contribute CS5. It's very challenging. Inserting an image proved impossible. The problem lies with interface not being intuitive. If only I could get my head round the intricacies of Wordpress. Small steps, one at a time will eventually get me there.

Highland Road Cemetery

The 1853 Burials Act meant that all councils should manage their own cemeteries.

Highland Road Cemetery was opened in November 1854 at a time when frequent out breaks of cholera killed a good many residents of Portsea Island. During 1848-9 some 800 people succumbed. In fact so many people died that there weren't enough skilled workers to keep the dockyard functioning and it was forced to close.

When the cemetery was built it stood in open country, over a mile away from the rapidly expanding town of Southsea. The land had been originally been used for brickmaking. Portsmouth rapidly expanded and urban buildings soon engulfed the cemetery.

Nest Building & Other Antics

A scrupulously tidy garden is not always a good thing. It's much better to leave dead leaves and twigs for the birds. In the last few days they've been busy collecting useful material from my garden. I often see a female blackbird searching & gathering. When she flies off she's holding a huge amount in her beak. She particularly favours dead grass so I've been giving her a helping hand by leaving it on the patio area. The cheeky sparrows have been having a lovely time dust bathing in an unplanted area and popping in and out of the privet hedge.

The Pope's Toilet

This film is a nutty Spanish-language farce is set Set in Melo, a godforsaken village near the Uruguay-Brazil border. It tracks the misfortunes of a dirt-poor petty smuggler named Beto. The film unfolds in 1988, during Pope John Paul II's visit. Dozens of economically struggling locals devise plans to turn a buck from the arrival of the papal father -- such as baking cakes and grilling chorizo sausages -- only one concocts a scheme to earn a fortune from offering the only public toilet in town. Our hero Beto, reasons that all of those cakes and sausages will be digested rather quickly and that the 50,000 expected visitors will soon be clamoring to use the porcelain bowl. Of course, toilets abound in South America, but Beto sets his public toilet apart by crowning it with an aura of prestige -- his will be the only Pope's Toilet in all of Uruguay, and the crowds, he is certain, will soon be clamouring to use it. Unfortunately, before he can set his scheme in motion, Beto must first locate the most appropriate toilet and make several risky trips, on his bike, across the Brazilian border and back to that end. Then, just as Beto is within arm's reach of success, someone thoughtlessly steals his beloved bicycle. Regardless of the complications at hand, however, Beto's determination persists. Parts of the film are truly touching and laugh-out-loud funny. The film shows how poverty in community happens in a humane, if saddening, way. It also highlights the eternal possibility of hope which gets expressed as a get-rich-quick scheme and how it enlivens and challenges community life.