Smiles- the longest word in the dictionary.

Have you ever tried smiling at the people you pass in the street?

I often find as we walk around places, people look gloomy or sometimes even angry.

And it's easy to join in with the frowns and the furrowed brows.

But sometimes as I walk along the street I choose to smile at people as they pass me.

And the effect is amazing- they look surprised and then joyful.

It's like they remember- 'oh yes I HAVE got something to smile about'!

And it fills me with a large amount of joy too!

Why don't you try it?

[The smiles title? There's a mile between the two s'! Thanks to my work mate for this... :-) ]

Adios.

Sometimes

Sometimes a piece of news just grabs you. For me, today, it's the story of the miners trapped in Wales.

As I sit in my warm home, eating some tasty food and listening to classical music on the radio, the closest I feel to the conditions in that mine is the dark, grey, wet weather outside.

But the emotion of that story still makes an impact.

Tragically as the day has gone on the headlines have changed from 'search continues for miners' to 'one miner known to be dead', to two dead, to three. As I write this that is the latest.

Awful.

What it must be like for those men to go to work as normal one day and then face such a terrible series of events, I do not know.

I pray for those men's families and for the remaining miner stuck there and for the people working on the search and rescue operation.

And, although I am sure there are differences, it makes me think about how amazing the rescue of the Chilean miners was.

Well, adios.

'It's back', he said. 'What's back?' she inquired. But when she saw his smile, she knew.

The pitch is set. The stick is shiny. The competitive spirit is eager.

Which means only one thing: the mixed hockey season has officially started!

I usually feel really great on Monday nights. I used to think it was because I was still rested from the weekend- a kind of positive hangover.

Then the hockey season ended and I wasn't so buzzing on a Monday night...

So I was left with the conclusion that it must be the hockey that makes me feel so well.

I think its all those en-dolphins flying around my body...

We won tonight (I think) which was good. I played in what is fast becoming my favourite position of right sided winger.
Zooming up the flank, and then flicking it in to the D for a striker to score.

That is, most of the time I pass it in. Sometimes I try and shoot- seeing the headlines: WYLIE WONDER GOAL SEALS VICTORY, STAR WINGER IN STUNNING HAT TRICK...

:-)

Adios.