I went outside yesterday at dawn to have my usual sunrise coffee in the garden and was treated to a mystical magical sight. The Moon, oddly shaped just four days after being full and round, shone like a beacon in the heavens casting a silvery hue over the trees and hills while the sky was […]
I thought I’d write blog-posts more often. But then, I thought I’d do a lot of things. I mean, simply put, I thought I’d paint the bathroom (whose walls have been mostly rough, ugly plaster since we tore down the wallpaper two years ago). I definitely thought I’d have figured out how to stop eating […]
I’m back and it’s only been three weeks since I last wrote here. When I said in it that I wanted to get back into regular blogging again, it was about a year between that post and the one before so… this is pretty nifty! The best things I can possibly share with you today […]
In an era where so many of us consume far far more than we create… here’s me creating at last. My writing is like my mind and my life is a mirror reflection of that; I’m obsessed with a million different things, from trying to master a pull up to speaking fluent French; Vipassana meditation […]
It’s really quite simple. (Which isn’t the same as easy, by the way.) The key to falling in love and not falling back out of it is this: Pay attention. When you pay attention, you’ll actually notice the incredible scent of wisteria wafting on the gentle May breeze or the ferns curled up tightly like […]
My little one has learned to clap and she’s utterly delighted with herself. Nevermind that she only claps with one hand and makes no sound, she’s ‘clapping handies’ and that is just marvellous! Ah babies. I love babies, they’re amazing, while my own one is of course the most wonderful little tot the world has […]
Drum roll……. I wrote a book! I published the book! And I finally, fiiiiinally released the book on April 24th at a very special book launch that was one of the best evenings of my life. The venue was perfect, the food was delicious, so many of my friends and family made the effort to […]
(I wrote this poem in August 2021 and it always brings me right back to that morning which, in hindsight, doesn’t seem half as bad as it did on the day!) I’m restless, agitated, reeeeeeally cranky. The cat has kicked her poop onto the kitchen floor and the dog is eating it. It would be […]
I don’t know how to change it all. I don’t know how to stop the bombs, the brutal and constant assault of a land and its people, the daily killings, the fresh waves of soul-searing grief ripping through those left alive. I don’t know how to stop humans hurting other humans. I wish I did. […]
There was a full moon last night. A full moon in Leo, opposite Pluto. Did anyone else start howling? I’m delighted to announce that we are all back on track and fully recovered, even my Mum who definitely had it the worst of anyone and whose cough sounded like she was chain-smoking 50 fags a […]
Coffee and Scribbles 