I was ready to flex my fingers today to write another blog, but I am stuck for words at the moment, I could blog about what I did at work today, but I prefer to keep my work and private world separate. I could blog some more about my visit to Chester Zoo yesterday, but I don't think I can improve on yesterday's blog. Sometimes I like to write to practice my typing. I taught myself to touch type using a CD on my computer. It was very hard work to begin with, and it still is hard work to keep the accuracy up; it is often tempting to try and speed up when I am not ready to go fast, and the accuracy goes to pot. I have good days and bad days, but in general I can type about say 50 words a minute on a good day, and it's such a joy not having to keep looking at the keyboard. I would recommend it. an added bonus is that if someone asks me to spell a word that I know, I can spell it out quite easily, because one of the techniques of typing accurately is to picture the word in your mind's eye as you are typing it, and spell the letters out aloud. A drawback to accurate typing is that I may seem a bit too 'perfect' in chat rooms, where people usually miss- spell words and use texting language. But I'm not a perfectionist, i'm quite down to earth. If i'm going to type I have to keep up the habit of doing it properly because I also type letters to people at work, and these letters have to be seen to be mechanically perfect to set the professional standard.

ps see this video of FAST typing ha ha!