Daily Archives: October 26, 2008

A shanti shanti Sunday

Bloody hell it was a bit of stretch this morning I have to say.

As part of my quest for longer hamstrings and some sort of core stability I went along to 90 minutes of Hatha Yoga.

The instructor had the room set at 30 degrees – so even without the exertion of trying to twist myself into enormous knots I was boiling hot. Then there was also the chanting. oh my goodness! At the best of times I am not so good at the hmmm, ummm thing. But the shanti, shanti, shanti chanting was just too much on a Sunday morning. I mean who can take that seriously when you have your chin slammed into your knee?

That being said I have a deep pain in my butt and some serious aching in my legs so there must be something in it!

A day looking up

Well I have spent today looking up.

Looking up at the first spiral staircase which is to found in the Queens House at Greenwich.

Looking up at the ceiling of the painted room in the Old Royal Navy College, not to mention the beautiful chapel ceiling.

And every now and then, I looked up and marvelled at a sliver, a small slice of pale blue sky.