Happy chance

Helped my mum sell my Dad’s car finally, last seen driving happily away up the motorway. Wondered if there were such things as ghosts, my Dad would be sitting in the passenger seat making sure everything went well. The funny thing, when the person buying the car and i were putting details in electronically – […]

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Sometimes wonder

Few years ago drove from Sussex to other end of Switzerland (and up a mountain) – didn’t reallize how high the place was we were staying at. Beautiful but terrifying. Love to travel. Flying by plane, not impossible but not easy. Understand implications of travelling. On the way, spent one night camping in the east […]

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the man driving the bus

    im sure my fear of heights is about the same as before our trip but driving back down to the village at 1100 m from 700 m higher… just felt so happy. the one thing i took away was trusting the man who was driving the bus

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Sunrise in the mountains

Longing to travel for some time but things happening until just threw a few things in the back of our car and went. We rented a chalet on a small farm in the Swiss Alps for couple of nights and travelled through France camping one night and sleeping another in a basic hotel south of […]

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Road to Cingoli

‘It’s not yet night at Cingoli’ – ‘‘Ancora non è notte a Cingoli‘’ Driving to Cingoli from Sirolo in June – a windy walled town built on a hill that receives the last rays of the sun when all around is in shadow. Curious about the unknown road. Sometimes – regret taking this road, but […]

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Climate Change

          Most days since mid May we have woken up to blue skies, gentle breeze and warm evenings turning into cooler nights. In our garden things you dont water like weeds – burn up. We’ve lost a few well loved shrubs but mostly the bigger ones and trees seem to be […]

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Stronger togethor

“And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn’t have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery” Vince Cable Remember what is important – not the individual but the collective whole –  individuals have their moment but come and go. For most of us, only the people that love […]

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Mr Mole and the pumpkin patch

“It was a bright morning in the early part of summer; the river had resumed its wonted banks and its accustomed pace, and a hot sun seemed to be pulling everything green and bushy and spiky up out of the earth towards him, as if by strings. The Mole and the Water Rat had been […]

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