The Kings Speech

Well if there are other films that make you proud to be British? Human? And one that shows that you can overcome adversity (if that's the correct word) through determination, persistence and inner strength , then that has to be one of the better ones.

So I think I'll jump on the Oscar bandwagon for that particular film. I'm no longer going to moan about my back/hip, my bad luck, will try not to moan about anything to be honest with you and will just get on with it.

Think I mentioned confrontation in an earlier blog. And watching that movie has given me a fillip of sorts, it has definitely knocked on a few of my minds doors and posted a few reminders through the letter boxes.

Doing the right thing is not the message of the film, but doing the right thing, improving yourself and being true to yourself is often difficult to consistently perform is it not? Well I have often found that to be the case, mind you I haven't always been too sure as to who I am which doesn't really help. However, I digress, "Doing the right thing", whatever that may be, and doing so with courage, purpose and endeavour often seems impossible, but is that necessarily so?

Call things impossible, that happen less and less (name that song again - also the rest of that particular lyric is quite fitting giving the film mentioned).

Shouldn't good habits be as easy to live by as the bad ones seemingly are? Cutting the bad ones out, whatever you feel that they are, must be doing the right thing no?

I don't know, I'm jibbering again, but I feel like I am making some sense, at least to myself, in those meanderings. Which technically isn't even a word, or is it? God I don't know, blimey, there's an epitaph right there!

Anyway, enough of my jibber, I was going to tell you about my trip to an island today, an island with just a bar on it. Yes, we took a long boat about half an hour into the Andaman sea, where we were dropped off on this island, and all that it had on it was a tiny beach and a bar.

Heaven?

God knows. But such a place definitely leaned on one of my occasionally overly indulgent slightly bad habits..... However the place was definitely other worldly, before the French and Italians arrived it was arguably one of the most peaceful spots that I have ever had the privilege to be in.

Maybe Heaven was an overstatement - well it couldn't have been as it didn't have a golf course for starters!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrXM_eQRW68

Was pretty special though.