H. was really helpful today. Shala was kinda quiet first thing only 2 other people in when I arrived, so I asked him about eating before practice. "No, nothing". I told him I was feeling really hungry at the end of practice, added I usually ate around 6.30 and in bed by 9pm but kinda grazed most of the day. Brazil nuts he said. Eat lots of nuts, then added he hoped to get one of the students who'd just graduated as a Nutritionalist to do a workshop at the shala. Excellent, just what I need.

I had some fun in class this morning. The assistant came over to help me in Parsvakonasana B but backed off after I'd got pretty well in to the posture. I could see she was looking at my front hand placement. 'This is trikonasana, right?' she asked. 'No, its Parsvakonasana', I said. 'Oh, good, just checking'.

Hey, hold on a minute. 'It looks that bad?'.

Then, mid-way through warrior sequence, when she was standing waiting for the guy next to me to transition to the next side, I completely lost track of where I was and put my hand to the floor and went back into Parsvakonasana. Err, something isn't right here, and when I came up she was looking at me as if to ask 'what the heck's going on there?'. And she was right. Completely lost track of where I was. "Now I'm completely lost".

And on the way out of the door what did H drop into my hand? A handful of Brazil nuts!

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Here's some snaps from yesterday's bash in the square.....

Some pre-race entertainment

Jive!

Waiting for the start

Champion in waiting.

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Got some excellent news at the end of the week. The block in the road that was holding the personal projects up got moved out of the road and within 48 hours the task I had to do, which was looking as if it would take weeks, was done. The internet is a wonderful thing when it can bring people together that are going through the same trials and tribulations. All it takes is for one person somewhere to get that useful piece of information that everyone needs, and, if they're generous to share, everyone can benefit from it. I have to say that phrase 'Information is power' is certainly true.

So I'm a happy bunny. I watched the 100m final down at the square seeing as how I'm not a T.V. owner, but the local council were nice enough to put on a bit of a party where everyone could go along watch. I'll post up some pics tomorrow.

Oh, and on Friday I got head hunted. It's always nice to be wanted.

AND I finally got to within 5 pages of the end of the FSpec from Hell at work. 5 weeks and 327 pages later I think the first pass may be done.

On the yoga front I managed to drop myself on my head in backbends. I'd stepped off the end of my cotton rug and my hands slipped out from underneath me and I came bang down right on the top. I felt a bit of a twit but there you go.

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The two guys I work beside are off on holiday which means I've the run of the lab that we all work in. Other than the tunes from the radio there's nothing much been going on. In fact I'm lucky if I've said more than 20 sentences at work in the last 3 days.

Practice this morning was a bit mad. It was really quiet when I started, maybe 5 or 6 people when it's normally just about full, then by the time I got to finishing students were almost queueing out the door! There must be a moon day looming.....

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