Love the dog

‘Amo & Pax (far away for us) near Dublin in Southern Ireland, but the thinking behind it is probably from a different era of shop. When the connections between makers and customers were direct and often local.’ This is one of the directions for part of a family who owned Avoca that we loved.

North Atlantic Surf Swell

Dusk

Tonight before it was really dark, wandered to the top of our garden beneath the Downs because saw the moon peeping out from behind the trees and wanted to watch it sail upwards into the dark sky. Something about the early summer night with crows rising noisely from the corn fields flying home to roost […]

Downland

Found an old book – ‘The Face of Britain’ – English Downland by H.J. Massingham written long time ago with early black and white prints. The cover of the book is torn and shows an image of a man ploughing a Downland field behind horses with seagulls wheeling in the air. There are few lines […]

Field of Flowers

Liverpool Irish

Imagine Peace Tower – Videy Island – Reykyavik – Iceland

‘We fed an Island’ – Jose Andreas

The true story of rebuilding Puerto Rico – one meal at a time . Please buy this book and support -World Central Kitchen

Ecosystem Restoration

Like many torn between what love to do and what maybe need to do. Please follow link to ‘Ecosystem Restoration Playbook produced by the UN for World Environment Day. Maybe your family can find something in this, you would like to do,. Its No Mow May to encourage wildlife, many we are losing rapidly – […]

Bears mostly in Alaska by river

Takes a while to load but so impressive -bear cubs and moose in the river

thoughts

Forget about social media, and everything connected – do whats right for you, your family and friends

New Scientist

‘Spiking nuclear reactions Chernobyl near Kiev, Ukraine’ New Scientist “Ben Fogle and Joanna Lumley have visited these places with dosimeters for up to a week at a time for the World to see what can happen. Some Ukranian residents even live within the boundary zone”

R.G. Doldán

Travelling

The pink super moon woke me up last night, very large and low above the Down on its journey, partly hiding behind our fir tree. Miss travelling – been over a year since visited Europe. Thought Brexit was bad until the virus arrived. With the family grew up with mostly drove to the South of […]

Deal with stress – reach out

‘Lean on us‘ – a youth organisation to support people up to 25 – good advice. whatever age you are. Remember there are people who have got your back – reach out

Wool

“Today, we’re surrounded by ingenious gadgets. We don’t grow the peas or raise the chicken that we serve for dinner; instead we hunt and gather in the grocery store. We shop online to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for our clothes and blankets” Helen Fisher

Earth Day – Councils need to help dispose of old Caravans

Tried many routes to find new home for old caravan but neglect means needs new chassis or much welding as well as interior rebuild. Even too far gone for a caravan breaker who suggested using a reciprocating saw rather than an angle grinder to tin open the metal exterior- safer and quicker. Little bit further […]

UN – GHG Emissions/Country

Each square on the map in the link represents a country scaled by its Emissions

Deadly roads – Nepal

Ainsley’s Family Recipes

Ainsley Harriott’s Jamaican Ginger Cake with Lemon Icing (and sparkles). This was meant to taste better if wrapped and stored for a day before eating. This was from a tv programme about recipes handed down from one generation to another. Another recipe was – Eccles cakes – made using a saucer to cut a circle […]

Beginnings

Every Life is Important