I’ve been down to the most southerly point of Cornwall, indeed the most southerly point of the whole UK, working today – down on The Lizard.

Once again, I have returned home after the day’s work completely shattered although I must say, it’s a completely different type of shattered from the completely drained, hopeless feeling I’m used to in business. Now, the exhaustion is of a satisfied, fulfilled kind.

For the first time in my life, I’m doing “good things” instead of things that just make the rich richer.

OK – I know all of that sounds like smugness personified and of course to a certain (possibly even large) extent it is. I do want to shout my revitalisation from the rooftops, when I can be bothered to get off the sofa. BUT, I also think it’s a remarkable step for someone who was, until recently, completely terrified to let go of the corporate world in case I sank without trace, even though every day made me more ill.

I know I’ve got a long way to go before I’m sure I can make a living – my existing work may well just be beginners luck or a limited opportunity or whatever. What I do know is that there is a whole new world just waiting for me to discover its secrets.

Today’s journey took me to within a mile of the seal sanctuary at Gweek, where I took this shot a couple of years ago. It’s another day when I really couldn’t pull up the reserves to get a new shot, partly because I didn’t have time to find my camera and get it properly kitted out this morning. I’m so unused to the routines of my PAD past these days. Then I’d have had a camera in my bag without even thinking about it.

I’ve been to within a whisker of hell in my recent life…..now I feel within a whisker of making it work…….