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Bless 'im.

If you're walking down the way, any evening any day....

Mmm where am I right now ? We have begun to put our home on a diet today. We are both supremely tidy people, but we still manage to house lots of stuff that simply needs to go, so we began with the office. I usually work on my knee on my laptop on the sofa, but we have decided to share an office, thus a huge clearout is needed. 2 sacks of old papers, divorce papers, insurance papers, old letters from people long gone and no longer a part of our lives, old house sales etc etc....

We filled half our trailer with junk for our yard sale on Saturday. We have a few people coming along with their own trash and treasure in order to build up the size of the sale. I am quite excited. I buy little these days, except for a friend of mine who has recently sold a lot of great stuff on Ebay, and I have indulged....books, books, books....ace !

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...we laugh the whole day through

What's going down in Severina's world today.....?

Our daughter, our brilliant three year old daughter, can swim a full length of the pool unaided !

Honeycomb icecreams, lemonade icy poles and Eskimo Pies.

Creamy curries.

The community garage sale we are holding on Saturday in the car park of our business.

A long walk in the wind tonight.

Making more jewellery.

Drinking enough water to stop feeling like the juice has been sucked out of me completely.

Hayhouseradio.com

Knowing I can make enough money working a few jobs and only part-time teaching.

Ideas, ideas, ideas for extending our business that are fun and creative.

More later kids !

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross we'll toil with hearts and hands...

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY ONE AND ALL, NEAR AND FAR, HERE AND THERE, YOUNG AND OLD, SHORT OR TALL, ETC ETC....

Ok so I am sat here at work, writing and serving, weeding and eating, drinking diet coke and talking on the walkie-talkie to my man and my girl, but it is a good day !

I am in the flow.

I like the Australian National Anthem on the whole, though the line " girt by sea " always makes me larf ! I cry sometimes when I sing it at appropriate occasions and I always put my hand on my heart. For, though English by birth, I am proud to have pledged my heart to Australia. I wouldn't live anywhere else, really, and truthfully.....

I also cry at " I still call Australia home " and " Tenterfield Saddler " and " Waltzing Matilda " and " We are Australian ". They are great songs.

So on this Australia Day 2007, give thanks and gratitude to wherever it is you live....you are all special, and what is a great place for you, is just that.

I love you all. Yes, all of you.

How far have we really come....?

Makes me wonder really ?

I walked home last night from locking up and it was pitch dark, and looking in the sky I saw the comet, it's icy wake spreading behind it. We got out the binocluars and the telescope, and once again I marvelled at how much of a tiny part we are in the whole scheme of things. But it didn't make me feel insignificant, it made me feel connected more than ever.

I have been reading so much about cosmic ordering recently, and the thing about it, whilst many would ' pooh-pooh ' it, I look at it this way, why not ? I think we may as well think ' yes it works ' and believe it, than be all dismal-Jimmy about it and think ' no it doesn't '. So I have set my orders in motion and I do believe.

If you wish to know more about cosmic ordering, click the link to the left of the page and go to the site. It's great, oh and it does work. However, the base line is ,it has to be" for the good of all concerned ". If you think you can wish ill on others, or you can grab someone else's lover, then it won't happen. That's just mean and pitiful.

Let me know what you think and how you go...

You may say I'm a dreamer.....

I got this in my inbox today...makes sense !

A "Crazy" New Way to Increase Sales

-- from Zero

by Dr. Joe Vitale
www.mrfire.com

In my new book, "Zero Limits," I talk about
the unusual therapist who helped heal an entire
hospital ward of mentally ill criminals --
without seeing any of them.

I've since learned his method for healing,
which involves "cleaning" yourself of all
negativity in order to see change in others.

It seems bizarre, but when you take care of
your own issues, they disappear in other people.

The whole idea is to love the problems away.
You do it by saying "I love you," and a few other
statements, non-stop. I've been doing it for two
years now and my life is astonishing. I live in
an almost moment-by-moment state of bliss.

Once I learned this method, I started to use
it on other things besides illness. Since I'm a
practical metaphysician and an entrepreneur,
I wanted to see if this wild method would work
on sales and other bottom line results.

Whenever I would write an article -- much
like this one -- I would send love into it.

Whenever I would write another book -- like
my new one, "Zero Limits" -- I would keep saying
"I love you" in my mind.

What I noticed is my emails and articles
would get read and distributed to *millions*
of people.

And my book, "Zero Limits," became an
Amazon bestseller -- six months *before* it
was published.

But I didn't stop there in my testing.

Because I want to be sure this method works
for others and not just me, I taught it to my
close friends.

Bill Hibbler, coauthor with me of the book
"Meet and Grow Rich," was skeptical. But he
borrowed a pre-publication copy of my book,
"Zero Limits," read it, and started loving his
products and his list of subscribers. Here's
what he said:

Sales for Jan 1-4 were 41.39% higher than
Dec 1-4. During the four day period in January,
I didn't mail my list or launch any new promotion
during that time. All I did was clean while
reading your book and throughout the day.

Bill went on to tell me he saw sales increase
from sites like http://create-ultimate-ebooks.com/
-- which he wasn't promoting *at all*.

How is this possible?

How can "cleaning" yourself with a mantra
like "I love you" make a difference in your sales?

It appears that there is nothing "out there."
The entire world is a projection of what you feel
inside.

So, if you feel love, you will attract love.
Because love contains gratitude, you attract
more things to be grateful for. This is the essence
of my book, "The Attractor Factor," and of course
of the movie, "The Secret."

You get what you feel.

That's it.

At heart I think you (I) just want love. Well, so
does everyone else. When you say "I love you"
inside yourself, you cleanse yourself and you
radiate an energy that others feel.

The result: more sales.

Still skeptical?

Look at it this way:

Even if this whole method seems totally crazy
to you, what harm can come from you saying "I
love you" in your mind as you make calls, write
emails, deliver pitches, and go about your day?

If nothing else, you'll have better feeling
days.

Try it and see.

By the way, "I love you".

I love the rain ! Here comes the rain....rain, rain...here she comes

I have decided I am not that keen on myspace...it seems a bit kind of young...a little bit of a meat market..I think I prefer good old blogger, and to be honest I have missed the clarity and ease of using it...

I was bitten by an ant last night on my walk and I have a big fat foot, that is warm, glowing and vaguely pleasant actually. I am feeling rather good as I have been so terribly busy with my writing, am really doing so much work, and it is flowing....will take a little break in a while though to re-boot.

I am thinking about whether to enrol for a massage therapists course. I know I can do this and think I would like it. I have studied massage in the past and been pretty good at it, but am thinking now is a good time to take it seriously, as opposed to doing it as a grab card for impressing men ( joke !! ).

Have loved the amazing three inches of rain we've had the last couple of days. I love rain. It makes me laugh when people call it ' nasty weather ". I think it is the most glorious thing ever....

Divided loyalties

Will also be spending time at :-
http://www.myspace.com/severinA1971

There's Jessie the yodelling cowgirl....

More random acts of kindness from a reader identified only as M....my act of kindness was to financially help a teenager in care who had it on her heart to go to India to help the poor - I mentioned it only to her foster mother and to her by asking if I may do so. It was just a small amount but it got her her visa paid.

People rock ! This person does.

I just pick up my chin and grin and say..........

Welcome to the Island of Sodor where:-

All live food is organic !

I'm the one who lives with her family in the Lighthouse

Fresh crab and mussels are sold down on the quayside

There is no litter

Children can play out until dark in safety

School children learn and enjoy doing so

Every one says " hello " to everyone else and problems are sorted out maturely ( not that there are any really )

I drink my tea and coffee from Cornishware ( original, not modern copies )

The greengrocer still exists and wears an apron, is open all hours and is a happy person.

The butcher wears a blue striped apron.

Thomas and Friends really do have smily, emotional faces and they do talk !

There is no dog poo on the pavements

Welcome one and all.

Stonehenge, is a magic place where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face !

One reader's Act Of Kindess:- From Paula of New York City...thank you for your contribution Paula !

My act of kindness is that I just started to sponser a soldier fighting overseas. I send him a letter every week and a package once a month. I just got approved to do this last week. I don't know if I will get a response from him but I am sending things anyway to let him know he is appreciated.

May we all do positive, loving acts every day of our lives !

On that bleak track, see the sun had gone again....

Am thinking about going raw again, I got inspired re-reading Shazzie's book and listening to my subliminal MP3s !

I'm feeling supersonic, give me gin and tonic..you can have it all, but how much do you want it ?

I choose passion.

I choose passion in everything I do. Whether I am eating an orange, laying in my hammock reading, making toast and cheesy butter for my little girl, scrubbing the ring round the bath ( not that we have one, I am WAAAAAAAAAY too anally retentive for that ! ), whatever the activity, I choose passion.

Because let's face it, I don't want to waste a minute of this thing called life, and I choose to be here NOW !

Things I am super passionate about tonight !

Writing an interesting e-mail

Oranges

Drinking another pint of water before bed

Looking for some great images for upcoming posts

Free spellcasting ( if you subscribe to my newsletter, you will know I have offered free spellcasting this month )

My nightly, hourly walk, where I see my animal totem the white goshawk in a tree I pass by

The low fat muffins I will cook tomorrow

The brilliant and amazing improvements in my child's speech this week. She was already very verbose and articulate, but her asking " mummy is it appropriate if I do this ? " just blows me away......

Patting a sleeping big boy

Hayhouseradio.com podcasts

The spell I cast tonight as I cleared out a lot of debris from our filing cabinet marked " work ".

Now to that interesting e-mail I am trying to compose....

In another land, where the leaves and the trees and the flowers were blue...

I really like my brother, he is so sincere and focussed, but in a ' an it harm none ' sort of way.

List time ahead:-

Favourite words..top ten...what've I got ?

Quagmire, eldritch, arcane, Dickensian, canoodling, irrespective, medieaval, maudlin, Vesuvius, indigo.

More later, I am DULL !

Well it's a whacky race we're running..I must atone for all my sins !

A very stylish lady in CK glasses asked me today if I was a witch. You know so very few people have ever asked me this that when I answer in the affirmative, I sound all pre-verbal and subliterate. I didn't explain myself at all well, and bumbled about talking about the seasons...when I reflected upon it afterwards I realised that I don't talk about it much, people either know this
( that I am a witch ) about me and don't say anything else or they don't know this about me...

We had two lovely mates of my dear one stay with us last night. They camped in the garden and helped me make a video for one of my assignments. I realised as we were taping that I should not have called my characters in the script " Dora and
Fred " because we all kept giggling....they were very good actors, and lovely people. We had breakfast again at Cafe Exeter and I was only once interupted during my bacon eating by our dear little one wanting to do a poo and a wee immediately. If you know anything about three year olds, they need to do it straight away, no time to lose !

Slept like a baby last night, feel a slight shift in things. Felt a breakthrough.

I'd give it all to you, but I'm still gonna search for more...

I am listening to ' Flowdreaming ' with Summer McStravick. Good stuff this, it works too, I have never been busier !

I have decided that I am not going to listen to the news anymore. I came to this conclusion last week, well New year's eve, when Saddam Hussein was hung. Now I don't like the things he did, he was a prize twat in a loving world, BUT I did have some issues with the whole thing.

1) If he had to be hung, this should have been done in a totally private situation. Not only did we get to see ( if we looked and I didn't ) the act occurring, but it turned into a circus, with it being filmed, and also made him into a martyr.

2) What did it achieve...oooh I know... more deaths.....mmm useful.

3) It didn't hurt him. Capital punishment never punishes the naughty. It punishes the family. Ok so it probably scared him a bit and annoyed him, but once it was done, that was it....he didn't know about it.

4) This would have been a prime situation for the US to step in and gain back some moral high ground.

5) It would have been better to put him in jail..and let others who cared for him look after him. This would have made more of a statement than the death penalty.

As I said I am going to live on the Island of Sodor. Capital punishment does not exist there, neither do the news items, I don't think it is closing myself off to being educated, I read Jung, I know lots of important stuff. I just don't want the negativity,( and let's face it, that's what it is in the main) in my life.

My theory about the best punishment for people, is to put them in a place far away ( or even near ) from their families and say " we're not going to kill you, but it is up to your family to take care of you..." they would have to feed you, clean you and take care of you. It would not be up to the state to pay for you, you would have to be looked after by your family, and when their interest dried up...then you would get your come uppance....

I know I will be criticised for this....well this is what I think ( and by the way, which one's pink ?)

Don't call me Dirty Percy...

When I grow up, I am going to live on the Island of Sodor.

I will live in the lighthouse on the peninsular.

I will have with me, my loved one and my little loved one, our cats, chickens, ducks, fish and any other person who passes the Island of Sodor test.

This test will include :-

a) a willingness to garden and cultivate own vegetable matter and pretty Mr Men type flowers.

b) keenness to reduce, reuse and recycle.

c) an ability to pull from the sea ONLY what you need and no more.

d) a TV channel that only plays BBC World Service with a special presidential filter and prime minister filter come to that too !

e) if you have children, they will want to learn all about the world, want to be educated from David Attenborough to Jung.

f) painting, drawing and creative pursuits would be encouraged at all times.

g) you would not own a Nissan Skyline with mag wheels or any other pathetic attempt of an object that is " supposed " to make your penis larger and keeps normal people awake, scares their children, or runs over animals.

h) you would practice feats of love and care for others, with no recompense expected.

i) no to plastic bags and packaging.

j) dancing naked in the rain without embarrassment is encouraged as is singing at the top of your voice, and dancing barefoot.

k) Luddite beliefs are also encouraged.

l) Thus endeth part one of the Sodor Applicant test....

Just nod if you can hear me, is there anyone at home ?

Have decided that I am going to use lines from songs I like as my subject headers from now on or perhaps lines from films I like, as I like to pull random lyrics/dialogue out of my head to type. However, as my dear daughter knows, I often change the lyrics/script to suit myself, so please don't correct me ( a person " called " Joshua once did and I don't want to be corrected as I type what I feel I want to type..I know you're out there "Joshua", so ' hey there...hey howdy hey, that's me I'm on a yoyo ' ).

Had breakfast in a lovely little local cafe, ( crispy bacon, bbq sauce, Turkish bread, salad ) and a latte. It set me up for the day and I spent a lot of it thereafter making jewellery. I am going to sell some of it soon at the market with my dear chum MJD.

Refrained from any more spiritual work today even though it literally is pouring in, after making the decision to allocate two days a week to it, and no more. I have therefore more chance to read and as the pile at the side of my bed is, well, giving the Eiffel Tower a run for a lot of dollars, I need to lay in the hammock in my spare time and indulge.

List time:-

My top ten favourite gentleman's names. I won't include my loved one's name as this goes without saying..and would be predictable. Oh how predictable that I said that !

Jim

Stephen

Huw

Thuey

Harvey: but I am going off this one a bit...............

Lawrence

Lionel

Frank

John

Bernard

I am sure there are many more, but I just pulled those out of my a** from no-where................

My dear one has just said I am stuck in the 1920, but I see this as high praise, since I don't want to be part of a world where public hanging is still ok...more on that later.....

Everything counts in large amounts...

So what about the most fun things I can think of, off the top of my head ( the one I fractured ).

1. Kissing and cuddling my daughter, hearing her sing and watching her dance.

2. Reading, laying in the hammock, with a coke zero.

3. Dancing on the stage to " Let the sun shine in " when I went to see " Hair ".

4. Dancing naked in the rain, two mornings ago.

5. Seeing snow on Mount Wellington, many years ago, and catching snowflakes on my tongue ( I wasn't dancing this time ).

6. Landing on British soil in 1993, when I went back to the UK for the first time in five years, kissing the ground and crying.

7. One particular hazy night, which made something very clear to me about my personality.

8. Swimming underwater.

9. Being on the Einstein Factor..I loved it !

10. Getting any of my tattoos, this is always so much fun.

Genius is pain...you went driving in the rain...

Feeling a list coming on :-

10 MOST UNFUN THINGS I HAVE DONE ( NO PARTICULAR ORDER )

1. Fracturing my skull- though am sure it explains a lot

2. Going to see Elvis Costello in Melbourne and being so tired I couldn't keep awake.

3. Biting a man who was being rude to womenkind when I was drunk once.

4. Crashing my car, ending up the wrong way round through 3 lanes of traffic on a blind bend.

5. Having my insides scraped out after losing a child ( mm maybe that's beyond unfun, that's simply tragic )

6. Breaking someone's heart and saying ' we'll still be best mates '- knowing full well this is never going to be so.

7. Slipping in vomit, 10 minutes before I was due to meet my teenage idol-oops, karma got me there, being vain, what a lesson.

8. Going to a divorce lawyer.

9. Paying taxes.

10. Talking to my parents about their will.

Strange Fruit

Watched a damn good film the night before last. Can't believe I hadn't happened upon it before. " Still Crazy ".

Basically about a band from the 70s who reform years later, tiny Spinal Tappish elements, but oh did I sob ! I also was reminded about my ' thing ' for the older man, gimme an over 40 ANY DAY ! I decided I had a bit of a crush on the character who was played by the amazingly talented Bruce Robinson ( Killing Fields, Withnail and I:- he wrote them ! ). When he first appeared on screen, I immediately thought about Syd Barrett ( early Pink Floyd and a tortured soul ) and I fell in screen love.

There is something most endearing about a 40 plus chap, with his dark hair falling across his eyes, and a look of " love
me " on his face. Then to discover via imdb.com that he wrote the aforementioned tales, played Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and I am hooked.

Anyway, I went all bimboish and female then, rhapsodizing about the older man, but the film rocked ! I like that the actors did their own singing too.

Rhyme of the day.

If intelligence is sexy, as I have heard it said,

Then what great tomes of wisdom must be whizzing round your head.

Why don't you come round Sunday, and we'll read books in bed.

And if your eyes get tired, we'll do something else instead.

Toodle pip !

And I wish I, wish I knew the right words

I have had an odd day or so...lots of things going through my mind. Lots of things I want to say to persons, lots of things I want to talk about. Did you ever feel you knew someone, yet you didn't know them at all ? Sort of like you have a kindred spirit, but you have so little information and knowledge of them that you kind of have to go on a hunch, on that inner feeling ?

I am a big fan of intuition as you might imagine. I really believe in feeling the power of a gut feeling and acting upon it. We are all connected, this I am competely sure about, and physical distance and physical presence are not a hindrance at all. I also believe that people come into your life when they are meant to do so, and there is a purpose for this. Whether they come to you on a brief, quick timeline or for longer...I have allowed myself to be fooled in the past, but that did come down to my own ego and not following what my instinct was. When I truly find the place inside my heart and head that is ego-less and simply my essence, I know the truth and the reasons behind everything.

My e-mail is info@gravellybeach.com sweet child, and I would love to hear from you.

Why do I have to justify myself...

Here is the comment I received tonight:-

im not sure that having to tell everyone about a good deed that you have done qualifies for a good deed???? maybe you should concentrate more on people telling you good deeds that have been done anonymously by others..... am not sure of the ego reason for this............ anyway, just my thoughts

Here is my response

The point of commenting is for us to spread the love and for me to be accountable, ego has nothing to do with this, I simply wish to express that I will put my money where my mouth is......just my thoughts too. I would be a bit of a hypocrite if I was asking everyone else to do something and tell me about it and then not do it myself. Oh and as I am anonymous, it is not like I am showing off to anyone. No-one knows who I am really, you are only shown what I want you to see. Thanks.

Today's good deed

I have been running out of time to actually write anything in the last couple of days. I began my day of spiritual readings at 9.30 and didn't stop for lunch or even stop at all until 4.00. I had a crick in my neck, needed the toilet so badly and had stiff legs...but I got some great information through for my clients.

My good deed for the day was picking up other people's littler on my way to the bakery for an afternoon drink on the way to pick up the little one.

Have a few more days of intense spiritual work before I have it under control, but I feel great, I really have found my calling.

Story from a reader..thanks R

COURTESY OF READER WHO I WILL ONLY CALL R:- Last night I recieved a phone call from a friend from community secretarial services who I do volenteer work with asking me if I could pick her and her 3 children up from the Maggie Island ferry at 8.30pm, I was relaxing with some friends at a friends place, I said I would pick them up because she had no money to get home so I picked them up and took them to thier house which is a far way away, she was so appreciative and sorry for disturbing my night, I told her it was no drama and it was okay. Helping her out made me feel good that I was doing something for someone else, she wants to give me money for the fuel when she gets paid but I said no it was fine, she only gets to see her children twice a year and every 2nd christmas.

Well done R, you are truly a member of the Karma Club !

Does this count... ?

My good deed for today was to not bellow at the imcompetence on TNT carriers when losing my computer and sending it two days late. I sent them love and kindness instead of calling them a bunch of pathetic, pitiful pigs.

Does this count as a good deed ?

Lemons, photos and ears !

I was very happy to be on the receiving end of a random act of kindess today, well two actually !

An unknown person left us a bag of fresh lemons at our place of work for us to take, and the man at STALLARD'S camera house in Launceston gave us our photos for $0.68 cents each instead of $2.99, because last time we had them done there we had them done on cheap Friday and he said we should have them for that repeat price today.

My good deed or RAOK for this week was to donate $50 to a charity I know doesn't have many members or as huge donations as some others...the charity is the Alannah and Madeline Foundation or www.amf.org.au

Please feel free to buy a spell and ennable me to send more, or donate yourself, every tiny bit helps.

Less Satan, more Santa..yeah !

Music from the keyboard

My beloved who is not prone to the fanciful or otherworldly had a ghostly encounter last night. He awoke to hear our piano being played. Luckily for me who is both obsessed with the mystical and very theatrical, he didn't wake me. I am glad. I have always believed in ghosts and spirits, though have never really seen one, I might have but am not sure...but in this case, I think I would have been frightened. He did say that he didn't feel it was malignant or anything, but nonetheless, I would have been a little scared. He did go and check, thinking it might be a robber, who was ascertaining whether the house was occupied or not...but when he got there...nothing. My dear one was scared and the cats were meowing at the sliding doors. My love is not a scaredy-cat either, so this was quite unusual.

Have any readers had any ghostly encounters ?

I did think it might be my dear one's departed mother coming over to say ' hi ', but other than that I don't know what the presence needed. Our house is newish.... so it isn't the ghost of a murdered person or anything that I could think of.....anyway goodnight, all !