WEDNESDAY 14th OCTOBER 2015 06:28 BST

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1. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
14th October 1888
The earliest surviving motion picture, ROUNDHAY GARDEN SCENE, is made
According to maker Louis Le Prince's son Adolphe, the film was made at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire.

At around two minutes long, it features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley in the garden, walking around. Sarah is walking backwards as she turns around, and Joseph's coat tails are flying as he also is turning. Sarah Whitley was Le Prince's mother-in-law, being the mother of his wife, Elizabeth. Sarah Whitley died ten days after the scene was taken. It can be seen on YouTube.

2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Shopping
Mediation
Me Time
Missus Time

Twitter Followers = 2,025 (up 1)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
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Unfollowers eliminated = 1 
@GeoAnalysisSy
New Followers followed back =0
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Spammers not followed back = 2
@KranSports, @ourmindmatters

3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION

I spent a day sitting quietly watching movies, apart from the ironing, slept a solid eight hours, and I'm feeling better! The fatigue, grumbling gut and dizzy spells have passed, there is just a slight soreness in the throat and a barely noticeable headache. Looks like the Rottweiler immune system did the business again! 

I was fortunate in having no clients and being the housekeeper, so I had the option of just shutting down for a day, allowing the parasympathetic nervous system to do its thing! More than ever I am convinced of the importance of bodymind downtime, which actually gives you MORE time as you're that much more efficient and robust when awake.

The fact that I'm happy despite a default self-destructive mind and that I almost never get laid low by an infection is testament to what looking after your mental health can achieve. I will therefore continue to live out and proclaim this gospel of wellbeing!

4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Are you looking after your mind?

5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and cloudy throughout with sunny/clear spells and a moderate northerly wind
Max Temp = 10 degC at 1pm
Min Temp = 6 degC at 7am
Sunrise at 07:32
Sunset at 18:13
Moon: 

Weathertrack: An anticyclone over Scandanavia will keep Britain dry

Air Pressure: 1027 millibars and falling slightly

6. TODAY'S ONELINER

I just heard a woodpecker call me a 'paranoid old weirdo' in morse code :D

7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Who's Line Is It Anyway (US): Colin and Ryan's best bits

8. TRIVIA
Residents of England and Wales have a gun homicide rate 21 times lower than that among white Americans and 215 times lower than that among black Americans. Their gun suicide rate is 47 times lower than that among white Americans. The reason? LESS GUNS IN CIRCULATION!!

9. ZEN WISDOM
You may be ill physically, but as long as your spirit is strong, it most certainly will exert a positive influence on your body.