I have had a Happy New Year walk to one of the favourite places: Blackford Pond. As most who read this know, I like walking. After last year’s descent into difficulty with maybe sciatica, maybe stenosis, maybe just too sore to walk much, I am now really really appreciative of every step taken, and full … More First Walk of 2023
I find I am living a full life, full of many surprises as well as the local and world problems and friends and reading some wonderful books and things to do. But, I don’t feel “busy” whatever that means – instead its more like the wonderful Mary Oliver wrote in her poem “Invitation”. What have … More Invitation
A mild day at the end of another year, though it rained this morning. Lots to read – but thought I would be better out walking while the light lasts and the rain has gone. I crossed to St Leonards and walked down the steps from there, not too mucky. It was Friday, and there … More Year End
I just came home from a beautiful wintry walk after last night’s snow. And I walked home yesterday evening just as the sun was going down. Yesterday’s snow was brief before a bright afternoon. the first four photos are from yesterday when the light on the houses made them golden, and the lichen on the … More Climate Thoughts, What sort of Weather?
Like practically everyone else I know, I am inundated with stuff. It is a misnomer to call some of it information even though I suppose everything is information of a kind. New words for the dictionary makers. Like fakenews. Is this new way of spreading some sort of news really new or just renamed? This … More Mindset, or addiction?
What have buttercups and daisies to do with Rage? Well for a start, they are all together in the same space, my space, the rage from conversations that go nowhere fast, as well as visible on the TV screens, and in me reacting. The buttercups and daisies are exploding along the old railway path I … More Buttercups, Daisies and Rage
Remember when Greta Thunberg said to all those very important people at Davos: I want you to Panic. For myself, I have not been able to make sense of the inaction of many, including me, in relation to climate change. I can’t think that we are actually deniers, I am not, but they, including me … More Greta said it – Panic
I find myself less disappointed than I thought I would be – I have no idea why, except that it seemed obvious the results would go this way, and it was clear that Jeremy Corbyn is not liked. So it doesn’t matter that I like him a lot and that I feel for him now. … More Thoughts on the morning after.
It is end November, so no surprise that here it is dark for quite a lot of the time as we are less than 4 weeks away from the shortest day. It is especially dreary on dreich days, so as today was different with forecast crisp and cold … but clear… I took the 29 … More Dreich Days
For the last couple of weeks, all around XR protests in London, and seemingly endless debates in UK Parliament or US Congress, about Brexit and Impeachment, none of which attend to any of the issues I [yes little me] deem important. The chief of these is probably social injustice, suffering, that so often is humanly … More Getting along with life
My World, Your World, One World 