ByJulia Chi
Steve Walker is a veteran of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he has been homeless and is a recovering addict. Steve is also an angling genius and has just come 5th in the veterans’ carp fishing championships, at Fens Fisheries. This is the second in a series of podcasts where he talks about his life…
ByCatherine Green
This month I want to talk about school. My children returned to school following the UK lockdown, and after just two weeks their behaviour completely changed. They had not been noticeably depressed or unhappy during lockdown, but since school started back, they are bouncing around the house barely able to contain their excitement. Their dance…
ByRobyn Harris
‘Mindfulness’ has become a common concept these days and many people are benefiting greatly from this practice, however I have always felt that something was missing… For me it doesn’t fully take into account that we are more than just our mind: we are Mind, Body & Spirit. Even these divisions are artificial and it’s…
ByJulia Chi
Steve Walker is a veteran of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, he has been homeless and is a recovering addict. Steve is also an angling genius and has just come 5th in the veterans’ carp fishing championships, at Fens Fisheries. This is the first in a series of podcasts where he talks about his life…
ByClare Watkinson
As many charity shops will testify, lockdown was a perfect chance to sort and de-clutter, seeing many of us rummaging through the top-heavy totem-poles of our possessions with mild stupefaction over what we’d previously thought to need, keep or want. So it is too with the clutter of the subconscious. For the first time in…
ByCatherine Green
Lessons learned during lockdown, looking forward to new business, and letting go of what no longer serves my best interests. Feeling I am feeling much better now that my children are back at school. This is my favourite time of year as we begin to prepare for autumn, look forward to Halloween, and then the…
ByClare Watkinson
A week and a half ago, between the opening and closing curtains of a wedding and a funeral, I did my very first podcast; another leap into trusting the flow. And I notice, as I begin to let go of the old, the new and unseen doors that start to shimmer and glow, subtly lifting…
ByAnthony Altman
Our world, our planet, our people, our human society, and even the animal world are all changing, which is the biggest change we have ever seen on this planet. This article is about utilizing such change wisely. The human population is higher than ever, the pollution of our air, water and air is higher than…
ByClare Watkinson
We were enjoying morning coffee on the veranda when the phone rang, tautening the string in me that already knew who it would be. ‘Oh Clare’ Mum began gently, ‘I’m afraid it’s not great news.’ Over the last few weeks my stepfather had been drifting on the ebbing tides of his life, a listing vessel…
ByClare Watkinson
As I walked barefoot across the lawn this morning, delighting in the nodding penstemons and bee-deep lavender, my pleasure was interrupted by an abrupt encounter with a small turd. Fear not, I didn’t step in it. But oh, what a rude little serpent of distaste! Like the discovery of an overripe spot on your nose…
ByClare Watkinson
It began when I fell in love for the first time; heavily, painfully and inelegantly. He was much older; I still had braces on my teeth. We were together for a year in Edinburgh before I had to leave for Oxford and start the betwixt and between of long-distance longing. But however willfully I battled…
ByClare Watkinson
For anyone climbing anxiously aboard the blogging-bus for the first time – wondering how to make sense of the bewildering array of route maps, unintelligible fare systems and suspiciously-stained seats on offer – please know that you’re not alone. And since it’s a process of travel rather than arrival, no direction can ever be wrong….