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3085911 It was a crazy day yesterday and a number of you very kind Twitter and Facebook peeps have been sending me well wishes and asking me what the hell happened. So here it is.

On the normal cycle to work yesterday morning I had myself a little hick-up. I lost control on my bike and exited it with my head traveling towards the pavement is a not too dissimilar way to an arrow being shot into the ground.

Remember when you were a kid and your parents were always bugging you to ware a helmet when out on your bike; but you didn’t want to because it just wasn’t cool. Well I can tell you that yesterday I was coolest person that has ever worn a cycle helmet on his head. Until you need it, there is no way of fully appreciating how much your helmet does.

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My head hit the ground traveling at what seemed like 30miles per hours with my helmet taking almost all of the impact. The only way I could describe what it was like is if you imagine pushing a hard bath sponge against your head very quickly. I’m going to put myself out on a limb and say that with out my helmet my skull would have no longer been in one piece and more than likely have a nice opening displaying where I stored all them useless facts I learnt at school.

Now as much as my helmet took most of the impact of me being shot into the ground, the remainder of it was taken by my shoulder or more specifically my Collarbone. I have a major brake in my collarbone which I can tell you kicks back at some hardcore pain nerves when ever you move any part of your arm, shoulder or chest.

The original plan was surgery this morning to stick a few bits of metal and a couple of screws on the bone to allow it to heal however that has been cancelled. Instead of that I’ve got to sit back for two weeks to see if you bone fusses back together on it own. Another X-ray in two weeks should give an idea if it works or if they need to cut me open and “Robo” me up.

In the mean time it nothing but pain, pain killers and day time tv for me. ?

What to 365? That is the question!

At the start of this year I made the very educated decision not to start the Flickr 365 project due to me not being able to commit that much time into the project. Instead of committing each and every day to processing and uploading; never mind taking the actual picture I had to find me another plan. That said I do know some people that have taken up the challenge with some quality images, Paul White is has some of my favorite with some inventive subject images from Alistair UK.
So my second idea was to drop it back to the PIC 52 project. One picture each week, simply. My only problem is I tried it last year and it just didn’t happen; I only got to about week 6 before I called it a day, as I just didn’t have the pictures and didn’t want to cheat. If you want to see someone that has made the most of the 52 PIC project check out Craig Rodway’s set with his genius Lego men on location.
My attempt at Pic 52 this years has also gone to the dogs, with only the first two weeks done. I have to face it; my ability to fail at the task so far is great that my success. What I need is a way to get myself onboard with the task in hand. A project that is easy to complete that will help me drive a behavior in myself to ensure that next time I start a 365 project I am more focused and used to taking pictures on a daily basis.
A quick sit back to look at the options; what do I do every day? 1 – Take a crap? Very wrong. 2 – Use my laptop? I don’t think doing a screen dump everyday is going to get my inspired to move on to some quality photography at any point. 3 – Use my mobile phone? Well I have a camera on my phone so I could…. {Sips from cup of tea.}

Yes you’ve guest it – Beverage 365. My plan is to take one photo of every (well just about every) drink I have everyday. My promise is to not overload you with too much on my Flickr / Twitter feeds. I will try to make my pictures as interesting as possible and give you (a best I can) an incite into what I’ve been up to; I know none of you actually care about what I’ve been up to but that’s what I going to do… so 😛

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@SMLP you are my hero, Love Michaela Strachan

Time to sit down a write another blog post. I’ve had a bit of busy few days recently so sitting down to write a post presents me with one big fat problem. What to write about?

I was going to do a little bit about what’s going on with @Twitchhiker over the last week. Maybe highlight the press coverage that he’s been getting and the fact that he missed out on a interview on BBC ONE’s “The One Show” or the fact that my tweetdeck “Twitchhiker” search has been going crazy since the first tweet about his plans were sent out.

But then I thought I would give it a rest for now and pull together another post closer to the 1st March.
But my final decision on what to post about is something that ran through my mind while on the bus on the way into Newcastle.

Michaela Strachan.

Yes you may remember her from such shows as “The Really Wild Show”, “Wacaday” and for the older readers “The Hitman and Her” and it is my mission (well until I give up) to get Michaela Strachan to sign up to tweet me the words “@SMLP you are my hero”.

At 42 years young she is the girls off TV that you and your dad could happily watch while learning about animals. She was is still is the sexiest presenter on TV but do we really know what she’s all about and what she is doing? The girl deserves to have an a better online status and I think twitter is the way to do it. I want to see her presenting more mainstream prime time TV shows like “Big Cats” or even a total take over of Country File (Move over John Craven). She also lives in Cape Town, South Africa so her life has got to be more interesting than some of the celebrities out their, imagine some of the TwitPic’s she could be sending out. Lets tweet it out and tags it clearly Tweeter Tags #MICHAELASTRACHEN we want you on twitter.