No D Day : True colours

Today has been declared 'No D Day' by the original Diabetes Ninja, George Simmons. It's a chance... actually it's a downright order *not* to blog about anything diabetes-related today. To write something else. To share something about who we are and what we like to do. There's more to each of us than just a broken pancreas, pitted fingertips and endless mealtime shenanigans right?

I've read some great posts today so thanks to everyone who has shown me more of who they really are.

Last year I mentioned that I like watching films. This year, well... I've started painting again. I used to paint years ago, but when the kids came along things got busy and it just sort of slipped by the wayside. Last year I was experimenting with a spray-stencil for a poster I was doing and had so much fun that I later experimented with using spray-stencil and watercolour together to make an image. I quite liked the feeling of not entirely being in control of the outcome (*struggles to resist drawing a d-related comparison*).

If you'd like to see what they look like you can find some examples under 'paintings' here:
www.stripedpebble.com

Watching 'Bucket List' on No D Day

Well known diabetic ninja George Simmons (@ninjabetic) has declared today No D Day. Not that we get a day off from 'it' but an encouragement for blogs like ours to write about something else for a change. Something unrelated to the condition we wrestle with every day. In fact I didn't think I'd get round to posting anything today. But here we are.

I love watching films.

Right now, I find myself sitting tapping away while half-watching the film 'Bucket List' quite by chance. Something I recorded a while ago and hadn't got round to. I didn't choose it with any real thought, but somehow there's something very fitting about it given today's theme.

For those that don't know, it's a film that stars Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as cancer patients thrown together and both given very little time to live. They embark on an adventure, attempting to tick off a 'to do' list before they die. So far it's about as silly as you'd expect from that summary (they are currently watching the sun set over majestic pyramids). There is though, something quite No D Day about the 'sieze the day' and 'you only have one life, make it count' themes they are subtly weaving in (with a trowel).

It's all too easy to get swept along in the chaos of daily life and miss the little moments of beauty. It's all too easy to feel squashed under the everyday and to forget to make space for the extraordinary.

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop to look around once in a while...

Oh no hang on, that's another movie.