Goals For Throughout The Year Read & Review 30 books. Watch & Review 12 films. See a show/gig. Give up smoking for good. Write, Edit and publish a Novella. Arrange & Have a Holiday. Study Something Pagan/Druid with Chrys & Simon.
New Experiences for 2015 by month:
January To start Writing again. To write a series of blog posts with a ‘Mental Health Focus,’ publishing one a week throughout the month.
February Try Yoga. Take a Yoga class.
March Visit a Museum.
April See a Sunrise. Visit a new place. A city or town that I’ve never been to.
May Celebrate my birthday. A night out to celebrate in style. Possibly in another city or town. Visit a Castle or a Pagan site.
June Spend time Walking in Nature. Take time out to celebrate Litha. Watch Jurassic World at the cinema.
July Attend Mum’s events. Birthday, etc. Watch Minions at the cinema.
August Visit Chester Zoo’s new Islands exhibit.
September Learn to Knit. Donate to charities.
October Celebrate Samhain.
November Take some time out to relax.
December Watch Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the cinema.
I love this Comic Strip, which turns life and death into a love story. Sorry I can’t accredit it, as where it was shared on Facebook didn’t accredit the author/artist.
Unable to Credit Author/Artist.
3. Three The Pony #DancePonyDance Advert
This advert is great. To see a Pony dancing and Moon walking made my day:
4. Guardian Article – Pandering to the crowd: panda accused of faking pregnancy in bun fraud case
Ai Hin showed all the signs she was expecting but only wanted extra food and the trappings of celebrity, say keepers
Giant panda Ai Hin put on a ‘phantom pregnancy’, possibly because she wanted special treatment, her Chinese keepers say. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images
Hopes that tiny panda paws would be seen in the world’s first live-broadcast cub delivery have been dashed after Chinese experts suggested the “mother” may have been focusing more on extra bun rations than giving birth.
The slated star of the show, giant panda Ai Hin, had shown signs of pregnancy at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Centre, according to state news agency Xinhua.
A live broadcast of the event was planned but Xinhua said her “behaviours and physiological indexes returned to normal”, citing experts saying she experienced a “phantom pregnancy”.
The breeding centre, in China’s south-western province of Sichuan, commonly moves pandas that are thought to be pregnant into single rooms with air conditioning and around-the-clock care.
“They also receive more buns, fruits and bamboo, so some clever pandas have used this to their advantage to improve their quality of life,” Wu Kongju, an expert at the base told Xinhua.
Phantom pregnancy is said to be common among the endangered animals. Many continued to display pregnant behaviour after noticing the difference in treatment they received, Xinhua said.
Six-year-old Ai Hin showed reduced appetite, less mobility and a surge in hormones when her “pregnancy” was first detected, the news agency said, before further observations concluded it was fake.
The giant panda’s natural habitat is in the mountainous south-west of China. But they have a notoriously low reproductive rate and are under pressure from factors such as habitat loss.
China has about 1,600 pandas living in the wild and another 300 held in captivity.
“Only 24% of females in captivity give birth, posing a serious threat to the survival of the species,” Xinhua said.
(From: The Guardian, Last Accessed: Tuesday 28th October 2014.)
I laughed aloud when I read this, thinking: That’s exactually what I would do. Anything to get special treatment and an extra bun. Gawd, aren’t animals clever?
5. A Beautiful Tree Home by Pagan Artist Annika Worth
I probably wouldn’t have discovered this beautiful drawing, which was was so alluring that I wanted to go and live there if it wasn’t for Facebook:
Image Credit: Annika Worth.
6. My Video: When Trying To Be Funny Goes Wrong
This is my video I created entitled: When Trying To Be Funny Goes Wrong. I think it’s quite funny for a number of reasons, mainly because it’s so bad and everything doesn’t go according to plan.
Boyfriend-A and I took a spontaneous outing to Rivington on Friday. It happened to be Litha, which is the longest day of the year. It was bright, warm and the perfect evening to explore Rivington. We spent quality time together and I also took the opportunity to appreciate nature.
I have previously blogged about Rivington and included plenty of photos. But I felt compelled to take some more photos of this beautiful place on Friday. So here are some of those photos (click on any image for full size):
Boyfriend-A Looking at the view
Rivington Ruins 1
Rivington Ruins 2
The Pond 1
The Pond 2
Rivington: A Gorgeous View
Rivington: Another View
Pigeon Tower Information Board
Pigeon Tower
I hope you all had a equally fantastic Litha.
Blog soon,
Antony
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Sunday 22 June 2014
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