Wkly theme- a different perspective

This week's photo theme is 'different perspective'.  My initial thoughts on this theme were looking for different view points to take a familiar scene.  Then I thought I would google different perspective and found all sorts (as you do when you google!!)          
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=different+perspective  found these on flickr which is similar to what I was thinking of. Then  I found these.   I am actually playing catch up this week as I haven't completed last week's self portrait yet but I will do it.  It is just so manic this week with end of term performance and the local Garden and Craft Show on this weekend, but there is so much behind the scenes work as with any event so I shall be tied up with that Wed and Friday evening then all day Sat.  It is always a good day and very well attended and.............. it also means I have completed one of my other 'pre mid life crisis' challenges which is to finish my jumper that I was knitting yeah :):) so pleased - admittedly I shan't be wearing it until the winter but it is done.  Will post a pic later.  As for the other challenges ...well... I can now run a mile without stopping 12 to go then I can enter a half marathon.  Bits for the others are in process as well, including those that haven't been published!!
Now off to sort out photos for Sat's show.

Mid life crisis??

On Wednesday I turned 48 and be it the fact that I was at a funeral on Monday or that we drove up to Doncaster and back over 700 miles - we did a detour to Deeping to visit mum and dad's grave so that added a few more, it was worth it though.  Anyway I found myself doing an awful lot of thinking about life and things I've done or not as the case may be.  The end result of all this thinking is a list of 'challenges' as I am calling them, that my family and I have set for me to complete in the next two years before I hit the big 50.  The challenges vary but do seem to have a physical side to them as well as doing things I absolutely hate!!  This is the list so far -

Charity Abseil, completed 29th May 2011

London Moon Walk,

Christmas Day Soup Kitchen,

Run a half marathon (set by Mick),

Go on two big roller coaster rides (set by Bernadette),

Cycle the Camel Trail from start to finish (36 miles there and back)

Finish the jumper I have been knitting since Dec 2010 (Mick's request)  probably the hardest to complete!!

there are others but they aren't to be published yet!!

So watch this space - I could be completing one of them a fortnight today :o