Low flying pigeons

big bang and this large pigeon flew into our windows on north side and been sitting on this path for over an hour in exactly same spot – little worried because we have plenty of cats, foxes and nighttime badgers in the area so phoned a wildlife rescue and told to catch and put him […]

Secret Life of Edward James

Searching for the big house where a great aunt worked as a dressmaker discovered a video about gentle english eccentric who escaped to mexico where he built ‘Las Pozas’ – a sculpture garden in the depth of the rain forest .. Las Pozas and the Secret Life of Edward James. The video is little old […]

Master Plan

not sure how he got up there without pulling it over but Fluf has a thing about this airer and the duvet. when the duvet is on the bed with certain members of the family under it, he jumps on like a stealth attack and has little accidents that mean it has to be washed […]

Cyclamen

mackeral sky

the feeling you get from a top of a hill when you almost cant see over but you know the other side is the sea

the Bridge theme tune …

music from Norway… more

Cyclamen underneath the pine trees

Identity and blackstrap molasses

these thoughts spinning round in my head the first for a few reasons but watching a film review reallised what i have been searching for. Someone described a film to be released this year as a life changing film, a search for ‘personal identity’ its about an alien absorbing information about our world. i expect […]

Independant record shops – 10 of the best

“Amid recession, failing high streets and the ubiquity of digital music, a handful of quirky independent record shops are quietly thriving by doing things a little differently”… more

Sculpture and fire Installation by Denis Tricot

“French artist Denis Tricot interprets movement of the elements through Nymans landscape with his elegant wooden sculptural installations” We went with many others to see this sculpture, weaving its way around the ruins in Nymans. To be honest my reaction was horror seeing these rough planks weaving their way around the very fragile ruins. But […]

Besides the Sea

Beyond the wall, is shingle, the English Channel and France

How to help fracture healing

Looking for advice found this link How to Speed Fracture Healing Dr. Susan E. Brown, PhD hope it helps

Selsey Lifeboat

Yesterday was my dad’s birthday and we went with them back to his old stamping grounds – sun shining and the sea was fairly calm. This lifeboat station is being decommissioned and being replaced with one launching from the beach. Feel sort of sad about this We found the place, his grandfather was born too, […]

Huskys

Samba Pa Ti, Santana

September Art Festival – Lindfield

Hoping to take part in an Art Festival in Lindfield in the autumn this year that includes interactive art and video – the theme is Past, Present, Future. Voluntered to be involved with a workshop recording people’s responses to questions connected to the theme. Thinking about creating a small space like a small circus booth […]

Wish i had a rowing boat

then with all this rain, we could row up our lane .. in fact its not that bad, only parts of the road are flooded.. middle of night last night, before another heavy downpour, heard an owl outside, so close it almost sounded like it was on the roof, wondered if it had sneaked in […]

Snow Heart

the most popular legend about snowdrops is that when Adam and Eve were expelled from Garden of Eden, it snowed and snowed and Eve sat weeping and an angel wanted to comfort Eve and held out their hand and caught a snowflake and breathed on it and it fell to earth as the first snowdrop […]

Paper bag

Fluffy a few months after he arrived in a McDonalds bag

Katie’s Rosehip Syrup Recipe and two wet ponies

Rosehips are still on the bushes… and even thou days are getting longer, its dark and gloomy and rosehip syrup with lots of vitamin C will help fight off colds and flu. Around us the bridlepaths are mostly underwater and feel really sad for two old horses out in a boggy field with no shelter […]