What a diverse country the UK is! Just like the weather and climate!
I have always lived here: I have lived in England, I have lived in Wales, I have holidayed in Scotland and I have never visited Northern Ireland, nor the Channel Islands, nor the Isle of Man. I was born on the Isle of Wight. An island of islands!
London is one of the great cities of the world, one of the foremost commercial centres, full of historic and cultural interest. Birmingham has fine shopping, eating places, a world class concert hall and more canal networks than Venice! Manchester is the great northern centre with its own music academy and concert hall and famous football teams! Newcastle-upon-Tyne boasts shopping, entertainment and Roman history, being the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall. Cardiff enjoys the fine Millenium sports stadium, great shopping and dining and colleges. The famous university centres of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham are tourist havens with much culture. The cathedral cities of Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Exeter, Lincoln and Coventry are all busy county centres with fine old streets and an atmosphere of learning. York and Canterbury boast universities, a cathedral, and ancient town walls. Many other cathedral cities are regional beauty spots of timeless historic grandeur, such as Chichester and Lichfield.
Yet more towns have sprung up in recent years from a regional need for improved shopping and civil facilities, towns like Telford, Milton Keynes and Redditch have modern road layouts to benefit the local population. Some towns and cities are historic docks and ports: Dover, Aberdeen, Liverpool and Southampton. Smaller seaside places are beautiful ancient harbours and fishing centres: Newlyn, Great Yarmouth, Cromer, Padstow, Brixham, Hastings, Oban, Cardigan, Thurso. In latter years small rural airfields have increased importance: British Airways now fly regularly to Rhoose for Cardiff, Newquay in Cornwall and the Second World War airfield at Lydd has become London Ashford! Birmingham's airport is as busy as Gatwick and many towns have an International airport.
Look at an older map of Great Britain and then a modern one: you will be astonished at the difference regarding road and rail networks. I saw an old map showing the Severn rail tunnel at Bristol but no motorway road bridges: a different way of life is portrayed as traffic had to negotiate the tricky winding road through the Forest of Dean down to Chepstow in order to enter South Wales: now a short journey over the massive River Severn brings you within a few miles of Newport, Cardiff and Swansea. Older maps will show Victorian railways now long since dismantled. As huge lorries tussel for road space in front of annoyed car drivers I wonder if Beeching was wise to axe so many local rail services in the 1960's.
A yet older means of transporting goods were the cleverly designed canals and before even those, the great rivers like the Severn, the Humber and the Tamar. Surprisingly, the deepest natural harbour in Europe is the mouth of a small Cornish tidal river, the Fowey. Ships dock in Fowey to load china clay from the Cornish mines. Cornwall once mined tin in great quantities. South Wales mined coal and much of the wealth of Cardiff grew from the coal industry. Northumberland once mined gold! Welsh gold, mined commercially since Roman times, has long supplied the family rings for the British royal family and is the rarest metal in the world.
Few nations have held so much influence on the world and its events as the tiny island fortress of Great Britain. Regions are amazingly diverse: how different is Cheltenham beside the Cotswolds to Skipton, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales, yet both areas have gained their wealth from sheep farming and the woollen trade through the centuries.
The King in earlier centuries enjoyed the hunt in the great royal forests - few now remain but some glimpse of former glories is seen in Sherwood Forest and the New Forest: the forestry of Scotland and Wales is mainly new commercial evergreen, but the ancient forests of England once supplied oak for the hulls of Nelson's navy!
What is your favourite part of the UK? What are your local traditions? Local dishes?
Whatever your pastime or sport you will enjoy this country! Skiing in Scotland, walking in Cumbria, fishing around the coast, soccer and cricket everywhere in season, rugby in Wales.
Vive L'Angleterre!
Adwello
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Saturday 22 May 2010
Tuesday 11 May 2010
Raving about Internet Marketing Coaching - how can this help YOU succeed online?
Do you want to have your own highly successful online business? Do you know everything about internet marketing: getting your sales message across to the millions of people online daily? Do you know how to get thousands of eager buyers to your website sales page for free each day? Chances are, even if you know it all, if you haven't started yet then there is something holding you back.
And for me, what was holding me back was a touch of procrastination ("tomorrow is as good as today"), a tiny bit of uncertainty, and a whole pack of excuse-mongering! But to chivvy myself up and cut out the slack I knew if I pay a monthly membership fee to the best online internet marketing teacher there is, then I can safely expect both results and action! Results from the coaching and action on my part!
Shifting myself into gear is so difficult! All uphill - simply no enthusiastic "Get-Up-And-Go!" these days! Time doesn't motivate me, after all if my heart rate is nice and relaxed and slow, I'll live for longer! But losing money out of my account motivates me like anything! So if I am paying out for something, I expect results! And I am getting them!
In a few days now I will have my own ebooks and video products for sale online. Earning me money 24/7. That'll be the hard work of shifting myself into gear!
So please may I recommend my new review blog where I write all about this spectacular coaching program: if you want to exploit your creative potential and sell something online for yourself check this out - it's free to view! Do you want a valuable quality FREE GIFT?
Go see http://reviewpointandclickcoachingprogram.blogspot.com
Hope you enjoy this, many thanks, Adwello :)
And for me, what was holding me back was a touch of procrastination ("tomorrow is as good as today"), a tiny bit of uncertainty, and a whole pack of excuse-mongering! But to chivvy myself up and cut out the slack I knew if I pay a monthly membership fee to the best online internet marketing teacher there is, then I can safely expect both results and action! Results from the coaching and action on my part!
Shifting myself into gear is so difficult! All uphill - simply no enthusiastic "Get-Up-And-Go!" these days! Time doesn't motivate me, after all if my heart rate is nice and relaxed and slow, I'll live for longer! But losing money out of my account motivates me like anything! So if I am paying out for something, I expect results! And I am getting them!
In a few days now I will have my own ebooks and video products for sale online. Earning me money 24/7. That'll be the hard work of shifting myself into gear!
So please may I recommend my new review blog where I write all about this spectacular coaching program: if you want to exploit your creative potential and sell something online for yourself check this out - it's free to view! Do you want a valuable quality FREE GIFT?
Go see http://reviewpointandclickcoachingprogram.blogspot.com
Hope you enjoy this, many thanks, Adwello :)
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Which type of person are you? Trend-Setter or Dyed-in-the-Wool?
Isn't it funny how you always get basically one of two types of person?
Which are you? Do you set trends or are you fervently dyed-in-the-wool and basically distrustful of change? I am a Trend-Setter! I love change, I love to move house, I have a camper van so I can sleep under the same sky each night under a different tree! I love to create things which in themselves develop and change like blogs!
Change and fast development is the very nature of the internet. I recall a time before computers existed in PC type format - I was about 7 years. At 8 I met my first Commodore 64: wow, you were really something if you had one of those back then! The computers at secondary school played pacman and the computers at college were for word processing: one of my friend's dad worked at home for IBM! What a nice stay at home job, I thought, and determined to learn more about computing! That was 1990 and the internet was of the future. And now is that future! Twenty light years on. Well, I mean, they weren't heavy years.
I am at home in the UK right now living by the sea with my laptop and a dongle mobile broadband connection - didn't you hate dial-up? That horrible whirring sound on the phone line and everybody created websites loaded with glaring graphics that took so long to load and then blasted your eyesight with bright lime green! A bit like this blog loading really! Green is not a nice colour on screen! Trees yes. Screen no. I can self publish now pretty much as fast as I can type and press Enter! Doesn't mean it's all worth reading...but I like to think a little bit here and there is!
Is there a place in our super fast modern world for the dyed-in-the-wool personality? Guess farmers and fishermen don't change much: a new tractor, sattelite navigation, basic principle of sowing and reaping and casting a net don't change. Human nature doesn't seem to change much either, nor improve over time! Plenty folks around grumping about how bad everything is.
It all begins with BELIEF. What your underlying beliefs are dictates the way you react daily. Which people identify as your personality but it's just your reactions coming out of your core beliefs about the world around much of the time. Change those core beliefs and you change the person - your personality changes as your beliefs change. Mostly it's just a casual drift in no particular direction, not enough for anyone to notice over the years! Examine your beliefs: what makes up the skeleton of your personality? Anything you want to change? But it's near impossible to shift a tightly welded belief!
I believe largely in hope. I always hope things will improve for me, that I will find opportunities, make the best of them, succeed. I try hard! But when things go bad, when I meet people with big black negative beliefs what can I do? Usually I run! Because even being near such a person ruins my week, makes me feel bad about myself and my achievements. Which are damn good as it happens; yet no matter how much you excel, there's always some negative spoiler to appear and make you feel real bad about yourself. How do they do it? They begin by deciding you are no good. Obviously they don't know you and haven't checked out the facts! But in all your dealings with that type of personality you will fail! You might even keep trying to please them, probably to prove yourself. Just run a mile! Learn to recognize this type of person a mile off and hide!
Why would anyone do that? Make you feel bad about yourself? Like you are taking up space they could be better occupying, indeed anyone on Earth could better occupy! Maybe they feel bad about themselves? Must be a daily reality! They sure have some kind of nerd need to put other people down. Spot this person, run a mile, hide, don't even try! And the really odd thing is: I take an age afterwards trying to feel good about myself again! Their nasty attitude soils my spirit. Like I actually feel a need to remind myself that I have been a teacher for 18 years with great results and I play some fine musical instruments and I am on occasion a poet and an artist and (this you will not believe!) a writer...See it's all that negative energy chasing in and around on itself - that's all negative energy does - inwardly destroys.
Positive energy renews and recreates! I like to see the bright side and think the best of people so it often doesn't hit me that I am working with an intensely negative person until a little too late! Then I run and keep running! Is the Trend-Setter negative or positive? What about the Dyed-in-the-Wool type? I think there are many personality opposites and these do not necessarily match up. Someone who is opposed to change is likely to have a dampening effect on everyone whilst a trend setter is going to be more lively, flambouyant, devil-may-care, go getter.
To me, negative gets older and positive gets younger.
And what about belief? Belief is neutral. It only exists when you allow it to take root, generally as a definite one way or other dogma. But it is so subtle that it is unlikely you are even aware of your beliefs on a daily basis, nor how they affect your decisions and attitudes. Perhaps Great-Grandmama refused to bring May into the house. Now you won't allow green paint in the sitting room. You are victim of a hand-me-down superstition you are not even aware of. Does it matter? Can you do anything about this? Can you alter your belief patterns? Can you change your inner attitude? Or your daily attitude? Is your attitude the product of your emotion about an event and based on how you felt when you got up this morning? Or is it deep rooted inside your personality so you cannot change it? Can you trend set your emotions, your beliefs, your reactions or your daily attitude?
I believe you can work on yourself to become broader minded by learning more about the world and the peoples of different countries, see more points of view, determine always to see everything from at least two differing points of view and read daily motivational quotes. It's too easy to get bogged down in the gutter press and see your daily life through a thick film of grime. Clean the windows of your lens and marvel at the technicolour instead!
Tell me about one great trend setter and one person opposed to change in your life! :)
Adios
Adwello
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Which are you? Do you set trends or are you fervently dyed-in-the-wool and basically distrustful of change? I am a Trend-Setter! I love change, I love to move house, I have a camper van so I can sleep under the same sky each night under a different tree! I love to create things which in themselves develop and change like blogs!
Change and fast development is the very nature of the internet. I recall a time before computers existed in PC type format - I was about 7 years. At 8 I met my first Commodore 64: wow, you were really something if you had one of those back then! The computers at secondary school played pacman and the computers at college were for word processing: one of my friend's dad worked at home for IBM! What a nice stay at home job, I thought, and determined to learn more about computing! That was 1990 and the internet was of the future. And now is that future! Twenty light years on. Well, I mean, they weren't heavy years.
I am at home in the UK right now living by the sea with my laptop and a dongle mobile broadband connection - didn't you hate dial-up? That horrible whirring sound on the phone line and everybody created websites loaded with glaring graphics that took so long to load and then blasted your eyesight with bright lime green! A bit like this blog loading really! Green is not a nice colour on screen! Trees yes. Screen no. I can self publish now pretty much as fast as I can type and press Enter! Doesn't mean it's all worth reading...but I like to think a little bit here and there is!
Is there a place in our super fast modern world for the dyed-in-the-wool personality? Guess farmers and fishermen don't change much: a new tractor, sattelite navigation, basic principle of sowing and reaping and casting a net don't change. Human nature doesn't seem to change much either, nor improve over time! Plenty folks around grumping about how bad everything is.
It all begins with BELIEF. What your underlying beliefs are dictates the way you react daily. Which people identify as your personality but it's just your reactions coming out of your core beliefs about the world around much of the time. Change those core beliefs and you change the person - your personality changes as your beliefs change. Mostly it's just a casual drift in no particular direction, not enough for anyone to notice over the years! Examine your beliefs: what makes up the skeleton of your personality? Anything you want to change? But it's near impossible to shift a tightly welded belief!
I believe largely in hope. I always hope things will improve for me, that I will find opportunities, make the best of them, succeed. I try hard! But when things go bad, when I meet people with big black negative beliefs what can I do? Usually I run! Because even being near such a person ruins my week, makes me feel bad about myself and my achievements. Which are damn good as it happens; yet no matter how much you excel, there's always some negative spoiler to appear and make you feel real bad about yourself. How do they do it? They begin by deciding you are no good. Obviously they don't know you and haven't checked out the facts! But in all your dealings with that type of personality you will fail! You might even keep trying to please them, probably to prove yourself. Just run a mile! Learn to recognize this type of person a mile off and hide!
Why would anyone do that? Make you feel bad about yourself? Like you are taking up space they could be better occupying, indeed anyone on Earth could better occupy! Maybe they feel bad about themselves? Must be a daily reality! They sure have some kind of nerd need to put other people down. Spot this person, run a mile, hide, don't even try! And the really odd thing is: I take an age afterwards trying to feel good about myself again! Their nasty attitude soils my spirit. Like I actually feel a need to remind myself that I have been a teacher for 18 years with great results and I play some fine musical instruments and I am on occasion a poet and an artist and (this you will not believe!) a writer...See it's all that negative energy chasing in and around on itself - that's all negative energy does - inwardly destroys.
Positive energy renews and recreates! I like to see the bright side and think the best of people so it often doesn't hit me that I am working with an intensely negative person until a little too late! Then I run and keep running! Is the Trend-Setter negative or positive? What about the Dyed-in-the-Wool type? I think there are many personality opposites and these do not necessarily match up. Someone who is opposed to change is likely to have a dampening effect on everyone whilst a trend setter is going to be more lively, flambouyant, devil-may-care, go getter.
To me, negative gets older and positive gets younger.
And what about belief? Belief is neutral. It only exists when you allow it to take root, generally as a definite one way or other dogma. But it is so subtle that it is unlikely you are even aware of your beliefs on a daily basis, nor how they affect your decisions and attitudes. Perhaps Great-Grandmama refused to bring May into the house. Now you won't allow green paint in the sitting room. You are victim of a hand-me-down superstition you are not even aware of. Does it matter? Can you do anything about this? Can you alter your belief patterns? Can you change your inner attitude? Or your daily attitude? Is your attitude the product of your emotion about an event and based on how you felt when you got up this morning? Or is it deep rooted inside your personality so you cannot change it? Can you trend set your emotions, your beliefs, your reactions or your daily attitude?
I believe you can work on yourself to become broader minded by learning more about the world and the peoples of different countries, see more points of view, determine always to see everything from at least two differing points of view and read daily motivational quotes. It's too easy to get bogged down in the gutter press and see your daily life through a thick film of grime. Clean the windows of your lens and marvel at the technicolour instead!
Tell me about one great trend setter and one person opposed to change in your life! :)
Adios
Adwello
You may like to read adwellosalesbonusreviews.com
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