Animals on the Underground

Click here - this is fun

For those of you who aren't from the UK, it's based on the London underground rail network.

My Wordle

I stole this idea from Tori's blog. Below you can see a word cloud of my recent blog posts.


Create your own here: www.wordle.net

Oooh I love words! And maybe I'm just weird but I get a warm, fuzzy feeling when I see words in beautiful, colourful clouds like this.

Loafers

Genius or what?

Buy yours here: http://www.dadadastudio.eu/shop/?i=41

Yep, it's a load of dead flies.

But wow, what a genius idea. These images were created by Swedish photographer Magnus Muhr. And I love them!

("Horni... I need to sneeze!")

Waiting for inspiration...

At the Zoo

My family took a trip to the zoo this week. I love the zoo! Strangely, I didn't like it at all when I was younger but somehow it's grown on me. It was a lovely, sunny day too which made it an even more amazing experience. The only downside was that my camera battery went half way through the day :( Because we only went on the spur of the moment, I didn't have time to check it before we left.












Next time you go to the zoo, try and get the animals to look at you. I can guarantee they'll look every other way except at the camera. I'm sure they do it deliberately to have a bit of fun!

Facing a Task

Facing a task unfinished
That drives us to our knees
A need that, undiminished
Rebukes our slothful ease
We, who rejoice to know Thee
Renew before Thy throne
The solemn pledge we owe Thee
To go and make Thee known

Where other lords beside Thee
Hold their unhindered sway
Where forces that defied Thee
Defy Thee still today
With none to heed their crying
For life, and love, and light
Unnumbered souls are dying
And pass into the night

We bear the torch that flaming
Fell from the hands of those
Who gave their lives proclaiming
That Jesus died and rose
Ours is the same commission
The same glad message ours
Fired by the same ambition
To Thee we yield our powers

O Father who sustained them
O Spirit who inspired
Saviour, whose love constrained them
To toil with zeal untired
From cowardice defend us
From lethargy awake!
Forth on Thine errands send us
To labour for Thy sake

Friendship is good medicine

Sorry if my blogging is a bit bitty at the moment. And sorry when it doesn't actually happen at all. I'm back studying and, wow, do I have a lot of work! But it's all fun stuff I'm doing so hopefully I'll get time to share some of it with you.

As part of the research for one of my briefs, I've been thinking about friendship and looking at ways it impacts our lives. I came across these statistics and thought you may find them interesting.

Did you know?

• You will go through 396 friends in a lifetime but will have only 33 at any one time.
  Source: flatrock.org

• In one study, those who had the most friends over a 9-year period cut their risk of death by more than 60%.
  Source: anapsid.org

• Dr. Dean Ornish, a pioneer in reversing heart disease, notes that no other factor in medicine - ''not diet, not smoking, not exercise, not stress, not genetics, not drugs, not surgery - has a greater effect on how often we get sick than the healing power of love.''
  Source: capecodonline.com

• People with a strong social network are more likely to survive a major illness such as a heart attack or cancer. Human companionship can also help reduce the effects of stress on the body, protect against illness, and help us heal
  when we do get sick. They're also less susceptible to chronic illnesses such as heart disease, inflammatory bowel disease and arthritis.
  Source: capecodonline.com

• Studies show unequivocally that it's the friendship part of marriage that makes marriage last.
  Source: psychologytoday.com

• Best friends annoy each other less as they age.
  Source: Michigan Daily Online

Now I have to admit, I have no idea how reliable these sources are. But, to me, most of these claims seem believable. Any thoughts?