Bee whisperer

Strange day rescuing many many bumble bees that kept appearing inside our house and guiding them out the window, as soon as one had left – another one appeared, not sure where they came from, maybe a nest in our attic and they found a way out into the main part of the house. Terrified […]

the little frog

“Spending mindful time in the woods is beneficial for body and soul”

Every day, apart from when it’s raining heavily, Dr Qing Li heads to a leafy park near the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo where he works. It’s not just a pleasant place to eat his lunch; he believes the time spent under the trees’ canopy is a critical factor in the fight against diseases, of […]

Rob Thomas – The Great Unknown

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Hammock Bears

Trying to be philosophical

One way or another and some much worse than others, the World we know has stopped abruptly. Last year for us was hard but our fan belt breaking over cobbles in northern Europe on the way to do what we had promised, for short while made everything stop. Because it was Friday night, some one […]

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Lake Keitele, Finland (1919) – Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Midsummer Nights Tango

Summer – Orchids

More people are cycling – we need cycle lanes

Cycling is good for you and environmental – but its scary driving a car when cyclists ride 2 abreast on narrow country roads, do sudden breaks and turn across the road without indicating. We need to prioritise building cycle lanes like Holland and other European countries and some cyclists need to look at the highway […]

Plane hit by lightning bolt 3 times – as it attempted to land at Heathrow

Plane trying to land at Heathrow Airport was hit 3 time by lightning bolts this weekend. Many signs if you want to see them – global warming, increasing rate of species becoming extinct around the World and more recently – our winter of floods followed by this plague taking many lives around the World. But […]

George Floyd – 25th May 2020

Iceland’s tourist board wants you to submit your screams of frustration to them

Iceland is inviting people to relieve their stress by screaming into their phones and sending it to them. Can you imagine receiving a phone call like this by mistake

Stevie Wonder – Superstition

Ordinary Courage

Big things happening and know clouds will always arrive, sooner or later – this is just about ideas/ways to cope and be happy in day to day way

Ordinary

‘No one has ever made themselves big by showing how small someone else is’ Many ordinary people have done incredible things to help each other and support and pull us all through enormous changes to our lives, many coping with loss of people that meant so much.

Eye of the Wind

Some nights, silvery light shines through the window from the full moon as it travels across the sky. Window is from old Norse ‘vindauga’ (vindr – wind and auga – eye)

“America’s Greatest Pandemic Is Anti-Black Racism.” George Clooney

“This is our pandemic. It infects all of us, and in 400 years we’ve yet to find a vaccine,” he wrote. “It seems we’ve stopped even looking for one” About 2 million years ago – the human race migrated from Africa towards Asia, Europe and beyond. We all have the same origin

The Baltic coast, forest and moorlands