" 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....

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....

" The real voyage of discovery does not consist in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust - A la Recherche du...

Last week I had my 49th Birthday. I was feeling pretty excited because I worked out that 49 was 7x7. This was significant to me because 7...

On this unexciting day in August I sit at my desk writing after a few weeks of absence. It would be poetic to say that the sun is shining...

( Buttercups from the field behind Loseley) It has been too beautiful outside in the past few days to come and write. I have been...

Here we go. Post number 98. ( I need to make it to 100 before I give up. Which by the way, I currently don't plan to do. Give up writing...

I'm currently living in the Winterfold for 2 weeks of forest immersion. The photo above is taken on the footpath up into the forest. I am...

I was at a pub in Sussex last week and while waiting for my companion to return with drinks, overheard the guys behind me saying ... "...