Learn to control money but do not allow it to control you

Memory_Girl

Firewalker wrote: »

Recipe swap will be very much appreciated - you know that cooking has become my homage to womanhood. MG, like the spirit of the title although agree that the form can do with a bit more work.

Firewalker

You think???:rotfl:

MG

MrsMoo2U

Do you have to fly FW? Could you go by train? Also do you have to fly direct? Is there a way that you could go via somewhere else to make it cheaper?

Butti

cherisong wrote: »

Maybe we should do a recipe swap. I have a rather fabulous authentic Indian Roast Lamb dish (and I am a vegetarian but all my friends love this one)

Sounds fantastic Cherisong. I love Lamb.

B

thriftyscotslass

Another one with her hand in the air for Indian food - we use very little oil, just enough to fry off and soften the harshness of the spices. Remember watching a programme once where an older Indian lady poured half a salt container into the pot :eek:

Train travel across Europe linky

Firewalker

Good day to you all. I have decided - today will be my day for planning and organising. And this time I am going to astick with the plan. Have been writing a post for my blog about the traits of successful people and guess what? The main ones are action and persistence.

Flying is the way to go I am afraid. We briefly discussed driving there but it will take too long (about three days) and will be very tiring. Trains are not an option either - again too long (and out time is very valuable at the moment). So, Lufthansa here we come. We'll go for four weeks and let's hope that we will manage to do most of what we need to - sekking property is not easy, and not now. Keeping the property is not an option - no one will live there and when not inhabited building tend to decline. May need some help from the Universe here and support from my friends.

Firewalker

greenbee

Me too Marru

MrsMoo2U

And Me.

Ok recipe for Raan (indian roast dinner) is on my thread. Thought it would be best there as I can use it from my own diary instead of routing out my recipe books.

FW, try having a look at this site http://euroburolimited.co.uk/property_other_countries.htm. They are the agents that I used, not sure if it any of them are the right country for you but even if not they would be really happy to give you advice. They were brilliant with me and are still providing help now. They are english and so would be able to explain everything to you. Hope that it is useful

Firewalker

Thanks, Cheri - I'll give the a call.

I reported the message as well.

FW

Firewalker

This morning I woke up with intention – the intention to get on with a paper I have been working on for some time now and which finally seems elegant enough to be worth finishing. I was sitting at my desk, determined but sluggish; my thoughts were not sprightly and my fingers were sluggish on the keyboard. Not good, I though. Why, why is this thing not moving, why am I feeling like this? Then in a flash I knew; I am feeling like this because I have determination but not fire, I have discipline but no passion and motivation.

It was clear that the time had come; the time to stop existing and start living, the time to stop surviving and take charge of my life. At least for the next year or so! Several times already I have mentioned here that I need to plan my sabbatical – this is such an opportunity that to waste it is unthinkable. This morning, though, sitting at my desk, my head was spinning and no solution was in sight – except that I kept hearing in my head the words of Paolo Coelho ‘the reward of work is not what we get but what we become’.

With this at the back of my mind, I had a Skype session with a friend who kindly set me couple of exercises – these will help me identify (please note that I did not say figure out or understand – the process is much more intuitive and sensing than that) what I will become in fourteen months. Once this has been done, using the techniques my friend told me about, I could ‘paint a line of feelings and actions’ connecting what I will become in fourteen months with what I am today. This is how the plan that will get me there will emerge.

Quite a bit of today was devoted to doing the exercises – hard, it is still hard. The hardest bit is to free myself from today (well, from my perceptions of today). Have you noticed that whenever you think about the future and plan about the future the underlying assumption is that the future is a linear extension of today? With this technique it doesn’t have to be – you in the future is whatever you feel you want to be; complete break with the existing trajectory is the aim. I am still working on this bit and immediately after posting am going back to it – who wants to end up simply with continuation of today when there is so much more to be aspired to? Not me!

Firewalker

NorthernLas

FW - Sometimes your words make my brain hurt!!! Even though I think I understand, I will come back and read again tomorrow