I returned to the soil I was born on in January of 2024. It was half a century after I first arrived needy and wrinkled into the bright...

It felt like 2024 was the year the flowers bloomed. It was a wet year but the conditions must have been just right the year before,...

January - I started the year violently with a cut throat end to my job. It was time to move on. I began the year spending a few days with...

Well 2022 was the year that Covid restrictions finally eased and by August most travel restrictions has been lifted. We limped along...

" Until further notice celebrate everything!" Heather Johnston Christmas time. New Year's eve. The year is wrapping itself up fast with...

" It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. " Laura Ingalls Wilder Since I last wrote in October the...

The nights are closing in. The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness is upon us. The swallows departed for Africa a few weeks ago....

" I'm having a massive party and everyone is invited. " is what the Duke of Richmond may as well have said. Goodwood Revival this year...

Photo Credit - @edzionmedia In her wide smiling face I saw defiance and intelligence. My heart was snared and I didn't know it then but...

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -...

Susan Fenn - Scout & Guide Camp. International Jamboree. 1950's Into my sleepy world tumbled a vibrant noisy young lady navigating the...

May has been wet and windy and in 2021 we have been about a month behind the seasonal cycle compared to last year. We have experienced...

It was dusk and I was making my way home through the long winding dirt footpaths that lead back to Loseley. This year we have two huge...

" Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. " Lewis Grizzard I know that once we leave behind February we...

Advice to my younger self & the meaning of life! Photo Credit - Jamie Beck - jamiebeck.co A Winter lockdown birthday which fell on Ash...

Sometimes life gives you something special. It can be as simple as a day of sunshine or a decent dump of snow after weeks of concrete...

" Let everything happen to you Beauty & terror Just keep going No feeling is final ." Rainer Maria Rilke A collage of how I experienced...

" Burnt out ends of smoky days " T S Eliot One more week to go and we will have lived through the second lockdown in England. This time...

' Lord, I had such a good time & I don't regret anything.' Franz Wright This last Saturday I should have been out enjoying the display of...

“ We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine. ” ~ Eduardo Galeano The grapes are coming in. It is harvest time....