It's cloud illusions I recall, I really don't know clouds at all (Joni Mitchell)

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Walking is man's best medicine (according to Hippocrates) and walking at lunchtime remains a thing I love to do.

It started while I was at Woodford House back in 2013 when Toni, Dionne and I would put on walking shoes, I'd take off my tie, and we'd walk for 30 mins around the wooded streets and farm lanes behind the school. Fabulous.

It was a great idea started by Jimmy - the PE teacher, and we kind of adapted it into a download of ideas/ thoughts and occasional grumbles.

I've carried it on since then (without the grumbles) with a variety of co-walkers. At the moment it's just me and that's fine. 

It allows for a meditative state to replace the decision making of leading/managing the campus.

I'm outside, walking one of two routes around the Mitre 10 Sports Park that is next to our Hastings' campus: the long - 35 minutes (for when I have a non-contact period 5 and I can eat my tuna and Cruskits in peace); the short - 25 mins, involves a short cut that bypasses the athletics track.

I'm also a keen cloud gazer, something I've mentioned before. Watching clouds is quite therapeutic I find. You lift your gaze for one thing and thoughts move from the mundane to the lofty immediately. 

A sense of perspective is guaranteed.  

What a day for a daydreamin' boy (The Lovin' Spoonfull)

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I'm a day dreamer from way back.

You know that opening scene from Boyhood, with the boy on his back looking up at the sky? That was me at his age.

Jacky often asks me what I'm thinking when I'm gazing out of the window at home.

The answer is often, "I'm just looking at the clouds". True fact!

A colleague of mind posted this International Cloud Atlas on his site three years ago - and it's still cool.

Everything you may wish to know about clouds is right there, and it's fun to use the compare clouds function as well.

Look up!