Random thoughts on the last day of school
My youngest son finished school (apart from exams) last Friday. The end of an era for him and a new phase beginning.
And for me too. It was 18 years ago that I took eldest son to school the first time and now I am no longer a mum with school age children.
These are … Read more
We are not alone
Do you know you have more cells in your body that are not yours, than are your’s?
Mind-blowing isn’t it!
We have ‘trillions of cells that are not human, but microbial, each of which has its own unique complement of genes.‘. We get them from each other, the food we eat, everything we touch … Read more
Why VE day makes me feel uncomfortable
Hmmmm. VE day makes me feel awkward
8th May 1945
I can’t imagine how it must have felt on 8th May 1945 for all that atrocity to end. Or start to end. My dad remember the troops rolling through the city and the smell of fresh bread. I can’t imagine.
I understand the need to … Read more
Can you make yourself invisible (and then very visible)
Last week I was out just after dawn and at the top of a hill, where I always stand for a moment of gratitude (at the view, but also that I can still get up the hill!), I saw a fox.
It was at the bottom of the field, running diagonally across it in the … Read more
A study of a blackbird washing
Zen and the art of bricks
I don’t remember much of Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, but once bit that stuck with me is when someone is struggling to write because they don’t know where to start. The mentor guides the would-be writer’s attention to zoom in from the whole view, to … Read more
Sometimes broken is better
I planted sunflowers again this year, from the gleaned seeds of last year. They have to be one of my favourite flowers, bright, robust, direct, stark against the sharp blue cold sky today, but also against the black grey of the week. The bees love them, the squirrels hang off them feeding. They make me … Read more