Here goes...

Thought I'd have a go at doing a Live Journal. I could do with somewhere to help me keep an objective view on my life at the moment.

I was thinking today about the last decade (I have a significant birthday coming up this winter). In the last 10 years I've changed employer three times, given birth to two children, moved house once, visited the Himalayas, cycled from London to Paris, been to more weddings than funerals, and seen a total eclipse of the sun. Not bad, but maybe I could have done more.

I'm cheerful right now because it's Thursday afternoon and I don't work Fridays. In a couple of hours I'm going to head home, pour myself a glass of wine, and start the weekend. Can't be bad.

Rain

Drove home through torrential rain, together with that peculiar yellowish light you get with it.

The children have a lovely attitude to the rain - when they got home they couldn't wait to get their wellies on and go out in it with their umbrellas.

I love watching the rain, and I love the way it smells this time of the year when everything is really wet. Its the sort of rain that makes you feel really good when you wake at night in a warm cosy bed and hear it outside, but which doesn't sound so good when you wake up in the morning and hear it pattering (or thundering!) down on your tent walls!