Poddys Rambles On

Isn't it amazing how a two week vacation seems like a long time, but no sooner has that vacation begun than it's time to go home again. My Florida vacation has just gone by so fast, I can't believe I have been here for two weeks already, and tomorrow night it's time for that long lonely flight back to London from Miami again. It's really hard only being able to see my daughters once a year, and with the cost of flights escalating every year, it makes the trip harder to afford each time. My online earnings have dropped in the last year for a number of reasons, including changes in Google, several sites closing down, and my struggling to focus on writing as much as anything, so I really need to knuckle down and look into finding ways to boost my earnings again, otherwise it's possible the trip won't happen next year. If you haven't had to be apart from your kids for a long time, it's hard to understand just how difficult that is emotionally, ...

Next weekend I am off to Florida for two weeks on my annual trip to see my girls, and although as a frequent traveller I was always prepared for my trips both mentally and physically well in advance, in recent years I have found that just trying to get everything ready for a trip becomes very stressful. My self-diagnosed A.D.D. makes me very forgetful as well as prone to stopping in the middle of doing one thing and starting another.  This doesn't help at all when you are trying to make sure that you have everything ready to take with you and that you don't forget anything. Of course the best solution is to make a list, and while I have done this in my head dozens of times over the last month or so, I only physically started making my list yesterday, and then added (hopefully) all the things I had forgotten this morning. It's the important things that I have trouble with every year is finding my American credit cards and bank cards. I don't use these in the UK, an...

I know that a few of you have left comments for me to say how much you enjoyed my lensography and learning about me, and I do apologise for not having completed it yet. Of course the lens is still not complete, and being a biography too my life isn't complete - far from it hopefully. But tonight I added a few photos from where I grew up, as well as the first part of my time in New Zealand. I hope that you will come visit and let me know what you think. CLICK HERE TO READ ALL ABOUT IT