Interesting

It is very tempting to make a connection with Global Warming concerns and the current situation with a World in lock down. Very impressive how people pull together and two generations not used to their parents (or grandparents) resilience, scales back everything in their lives to a grey version of life before Christmas 2019… but… […]

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Thousand Emails

Trying not to worry as a thousand emails arrive – another business explaining their plans to cope – some mostly worried about impact on their business, some finding practical ways to manage the situation and some just going to ground. The World as we know it – for now, has gone. The shops are mostly […]

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Treading the Line

Thinking about morals and ethics is a can of worms. Most of us, tread the line where what we aim for isn’t always what we achieve and no one is any the wiser except us and maybe people who know us. But is it ok?

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the blank page

Watched a programme that talked about Raymond Brigg’s book – ‘When the wind blows’ that used a double page blank spread – to explain what a nuclear explosion might feel like.  Just white, nothing else. Also remember a family we met on a plane flying back from Paris sitting near us who lived in Yokohama […]

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To dream or to be

There are some cities and places like -“visiting Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time – the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place” althou have also visited when there were six zillion mosquitoes, pidgeons and other tourists and buildings were […]

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Twelfth night

Taking down the decorations and watching the candles burn down, in the surrounding darkness are memories of those no longer present. My Dad with his funny ways – at these times very present. For me, this is how i understand the soul. Somedays, unexpectidly the Universe hands you a gift and for a moment i […]

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Almost midnight

Its almost midnight, when only people who work shifts, insomniacs or people with things on their mind are still awake… The end of August and beginning of September, the last few minutes of summer as it turns to autumn. When you wonder about the meaning of life or happiness, until your head hits the pillow […]

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