I’m just planning a get together with a friend from school. We have know each other since we were 11 when I moved to Oswestry.  She used to call for me on the way to…

“When I am trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.” Shakti Gawain You navigate your days and challenges with the map…

At the moment I’n reading a book about a back country ranger in one of the US national parks.  In the book there is a quote from Walt Whitman who wrote To me, every hour…

The birds in the garden are thronging around my recently filled feeders this morning.  There are about 35 chaffinches (which are my sparrow equivalent) along with the usual array of blue, great and coal tits,…

I’ve had several conversations with people about food and diet over the last few days and concluded that anyone can eat in a more positive and conscious way. Most of us know what are the…

Another lovely morning here in Wales, clear and sunny.  I love it when its like this and I also like it when its wild and stormy.  We are, as yet, unable to control our weather…

“If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?” Professor Mary Beard What impact do you have on the…

Pete’s comment yesterday set me thinking.  He said that for many people taking on food had become a necessity squashed between all our other committements and had therefore ceased to be a pleasure. I agree…

Here’s how to get this year off to the best start. Think about some of the issues you had to deal with last year – however large or small they were. See if you can…

Just one last thing tonight.  You know when you are talking with a friend and you just can’t put your finger on what’s not right.  Then as you are about to leave the banks suddenly…