Rooftops

Best laid plans........!!

The sunrise shot I had planned for today was abandoned when I saw the weather forecast. Then the day hasn't quite worked out as expected. Rosie (my cat) was displaying symptoms of a urinary infection so off to the vet we headed. She has had cystitis previously and it looks like she may have it again. However having had an anti-inflammatory injection she seems a lot more settled this afternoon. She's booked into the cattery on Friday before the house gets too busy for the wedding on Saturday so we really hope she is ok.

So, I've reached my 365 and I can hardly believe that it's a whole year since I started. Thank you so much to all my fellow blippers who have visited and commented and followed my journal. I couldn't have maintained the discipline without your motivation and inspiration.

I've given some thought on how to continue my blipping and have not yet come up with an answer! I've been feeling that my blips have been a little jaded over the last 10 weeks or so. There are two main reasons, firstly the planning for the wedding has taken up a fair bit of time but the labyrinthitis which I had in August has left me with quite bad vertigo. Some days I feel absolutely fine and others I feel pretty awful. I have spells of days where I have no vertigo and then it all starts again. My GP has encouraged me to do as many normal things as I possibly can to reprogramme my brain and I'm now able to drive again, go into supermarkets and tolerate all sorts of every day things which I couldn't previously do. I have an ENT appointment next month and on the whole I'm so much better than I was, in fact I have been vertigo free since Wednesday of last week. I'm usually, fit, well & very active and have found the last few weeks immensely frustrating.

So, as a result of not being fully fit, my photography has somewhat suffered and I haven't had the motivation or energy to challenge myself as I would have liked. Had I not have been so close to my 365 I would probably have given up.

I certainly wish to keep blipping, the question is, do I want to carry on blipping every day? My concern is that if I stop blipping every day, it's easy to get out the habit of looking for shots, using my camera and posting regularly. I may have a little break for a couple of weeks and then come back. Will give it some thought!

This is a rather longer write up than usual. Thank you again for all your support, it means a great deal and look forward to blipping for a while longer!