thoughts

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

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

Thoughts

We wanted to say – good luck and well done with new job -Prince Harry – it sounds exciting and hoping last months before your baby arrives are peaceful. Please press, social media and family members – Royal and not – remember this and support and look after them. Stop fighting.

Head Up

Strange and wonderful

The men who designed the Lotus Elan and Elite and the Work Bench. Lola Car brand – up for sale

Being torn

“You may not be able to see the path right now – but it doesn’t mean its not there” Nick VujIcic

Vaccine Interactions

There is a possibility of interaction of meds and new Covid vaccine.. Drugs like anti psychotics can have interactions with ordinary things but no research seems to have happened yet. If you are supporting someone who wont look into this themselves – good thing to help look into. It may be nothing but unknown territory

How to conquer the dread of pandemic winter 2020

“When the world between your two ears is as bleak as the howling winter outside, shifting your attention outward can be powerfully beneficial for your mental health. And even in the dead of winter, a 15-minute awe walk outdoors is something you can do” Sigal Samuel more

Thoughts

Everyone is struggling quite a lot at the moment, but even so “don’t let the behavior of others, destroy your inner peace” Dalai Lama

New normal

Before last Christmas if anyone had washed their hands for as long and as often as we do now, worn masks to go into a shop, stood at least a meter from people we don’t know and kept our children off school for almost 6 months – no one would have believed it or would […]

the sea

Windy Beach whenever i want to remember whose me i find a beautiful place by the sea. Love when its lonely and stormy and wild Spray in the air and sand through my toes Where do i wander besides the sea.. Nobody knows, only me. m.joy

The End of Farming

“For decades, the way we farm has been degrading land and destroying wildlife. Now there’s a revolution coming – but is it going to create more problems than it solves?” – Christopher de Bellaigue more A feisty article worth reading – especially with conditions for farm workers in the UK under the spotlight because of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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.

We need consistent and ‘in good time’ Guidelines, listening to Scientific Advice

New lock down guidelines revealed yesterday – led to these comments on ‘This Morning’ talk show: “We were doing so well to keep our spirits up, to keep going, to keep going, to keep going, but when there is this level of confusion, it knocks you back. When you feel you are just getting to […]

How are you surviving lockdown?

Someone asked me how we are surviving lockdown, now we are maybe on the 7th week. Probably very similar to everyone else. Many different emotions. – very grateful for those who risk their lives to care and keep the World going, grateful for every day that moves us towards the end of this crises but […]

White animals

Just after Christmas this year, a few times when i walked saw a white squirrel – thought this was very rare and concerned it might be singled out by other territorial red squirrels but very pleased to see it but concerned for its future and have not seen it since. If you are a little […]