You must be the change you want to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi

Silver Linings

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles

Alex Karras

Silver Linings

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway

Emory Austin

Silver Linings

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats

Voltaire

Silver Linings

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it

                                                                 Edith Wharton 

Silver Linings

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again

Alex Twain

Silver Linings

Silver Lining

I got sent a lovely little book from my even lovelier daughter this week. It's packed full of sayings and proverbs which have made me smile (probably why it was sent my way) but how often can we recall that perfect inspirational quote on cue? Well for me, its rarely! 

I'm a visual learner so diagrams, colour and pictures always help. I've decided to post my favourite's with an accompanying visual aid/photograph to help with that perfect recall.


I'm calling the series 'Silver Linings' and in keeping with the title, my philosophy and blog, here is my first.

Every cloud has a silver lining

Mrs S Hall

Reasons to be Cheerful - Silver Linings #R2BC

Been a while (it feels like forever, in reality two weeks) since I last joined up with Michelle's Mummy from the Heart Reasons to be Cheerful meme #R2BC
All I will say about the absence is sometimes things are just too hard and even I can't fake it until I mean it. But I'm trying (and no-one say 'very' or you'll get a Paddington Bear stare!) 
The living room is being decorated! Yay, at last! It's been 16 years since it was last revamped, when I thought the deep pinky red was cool, contemporary and comforting. All these years later it's just tired, old hat and frankly past it's best (don't even try and compare it to the author of this post or I will give you the 'mother is not impressed stare'! Take it from me, a step up in severity from Paddington's)
Floor's being laid Friday, furniture (a la Ikea) delivered on Saturday and will take about 3 years to put together. If it looks vaguely okay I'll post photo's. Who am I kidding? It's going to look 1000% better than what was there before. Will be somewhere to relax and chill out. Can't wait.
I reached my four stone Slimming World award two weeks ago, still buzzing about that!

I reached my 30,000 tweet and wrote a post which got for me quite a few comments and views. I always love getting comments! 
I'm getting some pretty horrid side effects from the clinical trial drug. Feet hurt most of the time (around 7 on the pain scale) I'm tired, irritable, depressed, rashes, sore hands and scalp, mouth ulcers blah blah blah. However, unless my mind is playing a horrible trick, it does mean I'm not in the placebo group and therefore getting cover from a recurrence.Silver linings and all that.