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REVOLUTION Graham Morgan Once revolution had a great appeal to me. I had no idea what it was or the consequences of change when forced on...

SUCCESS This is something that, far too late in life, I am challenging. I have always shied away from questions of success, partly...

ADVENTURES There was a time, when I was very battered and very tired when I began, without much hope, to think of the possibility of a...

GEILSTON WITH JEAN’S BOTHY I am sitting in the sun with a breeze and the green, green, gauze of summer under the pergola at Geilston...

SPRING : A TIME FOR BUTTERFLIES Just as I was wondering if the children’s antics were amusing or highly irritating I walked into a pool...

ANGER Wendy has been unwell the last few days; just shattered. She has spent lots and lots of time in bed and has sometimes wondered if...

POSING FOR PHOTOS IN PINS JUSTERAY In Pins Justeray we would always finish the day’s adventure by sitting in a bus shelter sited between...

TURNING SIXTY That happened to me nearly two weeks ago and I am still angry about it. I am no where near ready to be sixty! I resent it,...

FALLING WITH RELIEF INTO THE WEEKEND “Its like someone has been drinking vodka here!” one of my companions said as we walked on the north...

THE BLISS: MORNING DOZES. I woke before five this morning. It was so dark; the heating had just come on and Dash the dog was shifting...

MONDAY MORNING It was dark when I got up, Dash had been barking at an owl that was calling from the garden earlier on and was now fast...

COMING IN FROM THE RAIN WITH A SCOWL ON MY FACE. 12 November 2022 I have a pot of chana dahl simmering on the stove. The packet says it...

COP 27 We walk up to the back of the garden each night, with our torches on, walking along the long planks I laid at the top of the...

La Librairie Café: 4 Place du Marche This cup of coffee! I drank it relatively quickly in Cressy la Chapelle just two days ago. Such a...

HEARTS EASE My favourite place is so clear to me; I just need to fall into my dreams and my memories to see it. It is the view out of the...

RED SHOES Coming downstairs just now I was struck by Charlotte’s, bright red Doc Martin boots that she had just taken off after we got...

WEEKS LIKE THESE When I fell into Monday I think it was with a bump! I say I think; because Monday seems a long, long, time ago. As usual...

Home Home should be a refuge, that place you return to for shelter from the wild world, whether that be from the wind and the rain or...

HOME CINEMA When you just cannot hear, when every atom in the air trembles with the screams of the wee twins; both wailing about going to...

THANK YOU FOR TODAY. I have an exercise to complete about the possessions I have with me. There is almost nothing in my pockets or bags...