When you are stuck in the mud stick with what you see.
2017 Christmas Greetings and Hope for 2018
I have lived in the North West for seven years now so I feel part of the landscape and the furniture. Here’s a Christmas greeting and a meditation on being in the north with a musical reflection that nods to the south west with fond memories of the 1970s and a gorgeous song from Decameron. I am not sure when …
It’s a memory day
Facebook has this habit of prompting you to repost your memories. Today (12 December) is Melanie’s birthday. I posted about it a couple of years ago, hence the prompt. But rather than post on facebook I thought to write something here. Melanie would have been 47 today. I remember her as a three week baby whom I never met but …
Gorse Actually In Beauty
I have just come back from Charmouth from the Trees and Water workshop with Sandra Reeve. It inspired much moving and writing.
Walking with the Ancestors
I dream them and I work them out in my daily life. I bought a couple of months of unlimited time on ancestry.co.uk and it took over my life so I had to come off it. But the ancestors leave thumb prints all over me. They just won’t go away. They walk alongside me and tap my shoulder every …
Running in the Woods
Running in the woods this holiday made me remember walking to school with instalments of “The Last of the Mohicans” flooding my brain in the early 70s. I then thought about Wyken Slough and Manor House Estate in Coventry where I grew up and Canada where I have many relatives whom I have never met and a planned visit …