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Diary
July 2011
Started to write my Life review but I am conscious of not spending too much time on it.
I already have a rough list sorted but need to organise a format for it.
July
Life review is amazing I have never taken my whole life in its entirety and looked at it shows up a lot and is a very worth while exercise and would recommend it to anyone.
July
Visited the barn project and had discussions on where it was going and what my involvement would be.
August
Spent some time playing with and building my website didn’t find it to bad, it was quite simple to use I have got the basics now I need to plan what I want to put on it.
September 9
The village hall is booked for the therapies skill shares so now working on the Email for it I have a friend who has a network of over 100 people to access hought I might do a tick sheet and send it so researched a few on the Internet and tried windows check list, looked at surveys, monkey was one I spend a lot of time trying to sort it but then decided on the 80/20 it was taking to much time and I reverted to a simple email which I will then put in to a data base at later stage.
Sunday the 18 September
Afternoon spend taking notes on the organisation of a time line for the Barn Project organising the courses in to some sort of time order, instead of simply listing them I decided to try and use the calendar system on excel so spent time learning how to use it this will come in handy as I have several projects that will benefit from this.
Sunday 24th spend the day cob building and discussing the Barn project recorded the process of cob building from start to finish t to put on my web site for the barn project unfortunately and yes I have learnt from this the sun was at the wrong angle I should have moved and the video is a bit dark.t
While doing the illustrations I found the animations and had a play with them was going to jazz up my CV with them but hit problems once I had pasted them on no problem adding the text
Oct
Went to see another possible permaculture project in Norfolk it has huge potential but I am faced with the same problem of not enough time and also it is about 30 miles away which means a lot of traveling backwards and forwards incurring costs.
Trying to balance working life social life although a lot of my social life now is permaculture based my other friend’s think I have been abducted by aliens! and permaculture is hard work even working with a time line.
Oct.
Yes still on that life review keep coming back to it to add bits and got completely bogged down so I started to play and added some illustrations to lightened the contents that was a learning curve for me as well but I literally felt the load lighten t o the answer is to have a bit of both creative and writing.
Oct
had a big break through with adding illustrations and doing mind maps had a play with them and also asked advice from my daughter who has an A level in ICT but to be honest it was trail and error with her attempts as well, but a simple thing that she showed me saved me hours of heart ache.
I’m all for playing and giving it a go but it simply takes to much time I need to approach this from a different angle also building up the data base of information and calendar events using outlook trail and error.
Oct
Have hit a big problem I can’t pull the life review over to the website and I have run out of time. I have consulted a few people but so far no successes so will have to email it for now and try again later.
Oct
First weaving of the web gathering amazing we had so many people attend we had a rough idea of how it was to run but it took on its own life and evolved to become a social event where everyone interacted straight away.
We sat in a circle and someone suggested that we introduce ourselves and say a bit about who we are and want we want to lean on these gatherings I also designed a questionnaire for people to fill in a tick sheet.
An art session was running at the beginning and at tea break a spiral was created out of peoples art the art was placed on a piece of card and then cut up later and joined back together with cord to create a spiral the lady who cut it up said as she was cutting she felt that she was cutting people off as individuals but then bringing them back together as individuals but together as she created the spiral.
We had a jamming session with musical instruments a tea break where everyone mingled and talked no one was left out.
We then had a taster session of a sound journey and ended with chanting and a healing circle.
Lessons learned questionnaire had to much writing on it people didn’t read it properly although it was a tick sheet.
Website challenge had major problems with the comp it wasn’t up to all the downloading and extra memory that I needed in order to build website I limped al long for to long took twice as long to do anything on it counter productive. Until the comp sized up completely I sent it away for 5 days which I could ill afford to do tried using some ones laptop but could only use at theirs didn’t really work got comp back still had problems with it also the website wouldn’t allow me to pull documents down on to it down load video or some pictures was going to pass website to Richard to look at but then had problem with publishing it problem with domain name comp went away for second time okay when it returned this time.
Can down load docs ok paste and copy runs quicker .
Started to write my Life review but I am conscious of not spending too much time on it.
I already have a rough list sorted but need to organise a format for it.
July
Life review is amazing I have never taken my whole life in its entirety and looked at it shows up a lot and is a very worth while exercise and would recommend it to anyone.
July
Visited the barn project and had discussions on where it was going and what my involvement would be.
August
Spent some time playing with and building my website didn’t find it to bad, it was quite simple to use I have got the basics now I need to plan what I want to put on it.
September 9
The village hall is booked for the therapies skill shares so now working on the Email for it I have a friend who has a network of over 100 people to access hought I might do a tick sheet and send it so researched a few on the Internet and tried windows check list, looked at surveys, monkey was one I spend a lot of time trying to sort it but then decided on the 80/20 it was taking to much time and I reverted to a simple email which I will then put in to a data base at later stage.
Sunday the 18 September
Afternoon spend taking notes on the organisation of a time line for the Barn Project organising the courses in to some sort of time order, instead of simply listing them I decided to try and use the calendar system on excel so spent time learning how to use it this will come in handy as I have several projects that will benefit from this.
Sunday 24th spend the day cob building and discussing the Barn project recorded the process of cob building from start to finish t to put on my web site for the barn project unfortunately and yes I have learnt from this the sun was at the wrong angle I should have moved and the video is a bit dark.t
While doing the illustrations I found the animations and had a play with them was going to jazz up my CV with them but hit problems once I had pasted them on no problem adding the text
Oct
Went to see another possible permaculture project in Norfolk it has huge potential but I am faced with the same problem of not enough time and also it is about 30 miles away which means a lot of traveling backwards and forwards incurring costs.
Trying to balance working life social life although a lot of my social life now is permaculture based my other friend’s think I have been abducted by aliens! and permaculture is hard work even working with a time line.
Oct.
Yes still on that life review keep coming back to it to add bits and got completely bogged down so I started to play and added some illustrations to lightened the contents that was a learning curve for me as well but I literally felt the load lighten t o the answer is to have a bit of both creative and writing.
Oct
had a big break through with adding illustrations and doing mind maps had a play with them and also asked advice from my daughter who has an A level in ICT but to be honest it was trail and error with her attempts as well, but a simple thing that she showed me saved me hours of heart ache.
I’m all for playing and giving it a go but it simply takes to much time I need to approach this from a different angle also building up the data base of information and calendar events using outlook trail and error.
Oct
Have hit a big problem I can’t pull the life review over to the website and I have run out of time. I have consulted a few people but so far no successes so will have to email it for now and try again later.
Oct
First weaving of the web gathering amazing we had so many people attend we had a rough idea of how it was to run but it took on its own life and evolved to become a social event where everyone interacted straight away.
We sat in a circle and someone suggested that we introduce ourselves and say a bit about who we are and want we want to lean on these gatherings I also designed a questionnaire for people to fill in a tick sheet.
An art session was running at the beginning and at tea break a spiral was created out of peoples art the art was placed on a piece of card and then cut up later and joined back together with cord to create a spiral the lady who cut it up said as she was cutting she felt that she was cutting people off as individuals but then bringing them back together as individuals but together as she created the spiral.
We had a jamming session with musical instruments a tea break where everyone mingled and talked no one was left out.
We then had a taster session of a sound journey and ended with chanting and a healing circle.
Lessons learned questionnaire had to much writing on it people didn’t read it properly although it was a tick sheet.
Website challenge had major problems with the comp it wasn’t up to all the downloading and extra memory that I needed in order to build website I limped al long for to long took twice as long to do anything on it counter productive. Until the comp sized up completely I sent it away for 5 days which I could ill afford to do tried using some ones laptop but could only use at theirs didn’t really work got comp back still had problems with it also the website wouldn’t allow me to pull documents down on to it down load video or some pictures was going to pass website to Richard to look at but then had problem with publishing it problem with domain name comp went away for second time okay when it returned this time.
Can down load docs ok paste and copy runs quicker .