Today, Saturday 28th April 2007, was a historic day. At 8.19 this morning I was up and about but although I live in Kent did not feel any earth tremor.

However, further south in Kent, people did feel an earthquake that measured 4.3 on the Richter scale. Its epicentre was 7.5 miles off the Dover coast in the English Channel.

Homes in five streets in Folkestone on the coast had to be evacuated because of structural damage such as cracked walls and fallen chimneys.

A man in Dover said the bed shook violently at about 8.15

One woman was taken to hospital with a neck injury.

Clearly the earthquake was a minor one compared with earthquakes that take place all over the world but because earthquakes are so rare in the UK people were unnecessarily frightened.

Some thought that terrorists had bombed the Channel Tunnel. Others may have been ready to move to other parts of the world not realizing that there have been several earthquakes already in the UK.

The Kent quake is the largest recorded in Britain since an earthquake in Dudley in 2002.

There have been earthquakes in the Kent area before. Two of them have been some of the biggest earthquakes ever to affect Britain.

The first was in 1382 and in 1580 an earthquake with a magnitude of about six killed two people in London.

There were also smaller tremors in 1776 and 1950 in this area.

These quakes were in the low fours and of about the same size as the one today.

Today’s earthquake, then, when you learn the facts is nothing to worry about. Without such knowledge it is a strange and frightening event.

I went shopping in Petts Wood later and was lucky enough to be served by an energetic and thoughtful assistant.

When my credit card failed to create a response, she rubbed it on her clothes to generate static. She claimed this worked because she was surrounded by metal.

I said it was because of her energetic and dynamic personality. I think she appreciated the compliment.

Today, Thursday 19th April, I felt well enough to get out of the house for the long neighbourhood walk.

I met a good friend and his wife. He is an amazingly energetic and adventurous man – travelling and sailing in tall ships. He is in his late sixties yet shows no sign of slowing down.

He is going to France shortly. I mentioned that I was going to Bournemouth and we laughed at the contrast between going abroad and staying put in England.

However,in Bournemouth I am going to a bootcamp for entrepreneurs run by the great Andrew Reynolds.

If I learn to make millions I might be spending my holidays in a log cabin in Lapland or a beachfront house in Barbados.

I need belief to go to the seminar but I also need the energy and drive to take action when I get home. If I do that, I might well have a ticket to anywhere I want to go. We shall see!

Today, Thursday 12th April 2007, Kurt Vonnegut the American author died after falling downstairs at his Manhattan apartment.

I haven’t read his works but was impressed by his welcome to babies who have just arrived on this earth. I can’t remember his exact words but they went something like this:

Welcome babies to the earth. It is round and wet and you have about 100 years to stay here. There is only one rule, Goddamit!

“BE KIND!”

I have not been up and about since last Wednesday when I started a bad dose of ‘flu. I am now beginning to feel better and and am very determined to live a more healthy life i.e. less sugar and salt!

I should be out walking again tomorrow. In the meantime I have been visited by foxes and Sam, the golden retriever from next door.

Sam enters the garden, picks his spot and craps on the lawn. He then runs cheerfully back next door! Yesterday he had the decency to crap in the flower bed. Still, I must be kind and that is not difficult with such a cheery and friendly dog as Sam!

Today, Tuesday, was cold and occasionally showery.

I took the long neighbourhood route where I pass a house which has been boarded up for over a year and is beginning to attract rubbish.

Like attracts like according to the law of attraction. Money attracts more money. Lack of money attracts poverty and debt. Rubbish attracts rubbish.

Recently a car was crushed by a London council. It belonged to a couple who were on holiday but the window had been smashed by vandals and the local council staff assumed it had been abandoned. If it looks like rubbish, it must be rubbish.

No one bothered to ask the neighbours if the car belonged to anyone.

Jesus’ comment in the gospel that ‘To him that hath, shall more be given’ might conceivably be connected with the law of attraction.

Whatever you have you will get more of.