Nelson Mandela – July 18th 1918 – December 5th 2013

Nelson Mandela – “For to be free is not merely to cast of one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others”

Secret Squirrel

Sitting underneath fir trees this morning and reallised something in the branches above was pelting me with bits of pine cone.. bits a little nibbled, were flying thru the air almost on target, until the middle bit of the pine cone came flying down as well. maybe he was just having a bad day

Ura-Bon Festival

In Japan held in the middle of the seventh month – a time to pray for the peaceful rest of ancestors and is a time when deceased family members are believed to revisit the home to be reunited with their family. Little similar to Loi Krathong in Thailand and All Souls in November To guide […]

Sand Castles and Cherrys

Unexpected lovely weekend, day trip to France thru the tunnel, although delays – not too bad – then croissants, visit to very small chocolate factory, crepes, beautiful french countryside and medieval towns on hill tops and always somehow find our way back to the sandy beach at Wissant where there always seems to be low […]

‘No Such Thing’

Polar Bears are Irish

Searched online for polar bears – found paintings of blue ones, pens and even party bags you can paint in different colors. But – DNA shows polar bears descended from a female Irish brown bear. If she could have talked, the mother of the modern polar bear would have had a brogue. “Researchers at at […]

Eden Project at Shoreham Cement Works?

Don’t know why but the Cement Works has been on my mind – distraction from other things suppose – wondered about balancing preserving modern history and Governments drive for turning every inch of space into housing, even greenfield land, so reallised there must be a reason a potentially dangerous building on brownfield land just sits […]

Herefordshire Herd at Sullington

Herd of Herefords at the bottom of South Downs We grew up with a pet Hereford cow called Curly, so for me this is a field of Curly’s Our Curly had long and happy life in her own field and apple orchard and once got drunk stealing apples from the trees. She had a wry […]

Coastline – m.joy

Storm coming althou in the distance sun is still shining

Thinking about….

the Lofoten Isles – later this summer or early next. Hoping sometime soon and without huge budget. Any advice, suggestions, places must see – would be welcome

Elina Born & Stig Rästa

“Elina is a temperamental small town girl who enjoys city life and would like to travel to Africa to pet giraffes. Even-tempered Stig would rather go to Antarctica. Unlike Elina, he grew up in the challenging side of the city. But today he would rather live in the countryside, where he can write music in […]

“Mental Health Services in England are a Car Crash”

Under resourced, under funded, you could say…under valued. You could also say, familys who are part of this picture, fall into the same category of being undervalued and forgotten. One of those funny things in life.. until you are personally effected, you wouldnt reallise, how bad it can be. You probably wouldn’t even think about […]

Midsummer

Zebra Finch

Fluf

Year ago yesterday, mid summer’s day – we lost our little Fluf. We also called him Boo boo. Funny thing the evening before on mid summer’s eve a badger ran though the garden and yesterday early outside watering and a deer ran past me through our garden. Sometimes wonder when im outside and the […]

Village fair – Silent auction

Next Saturday at our village fair in Ditchling, a local business has supplied 40 canvases and on the day these canvases will be auctioned by silent auction. weve had fun doodling and this is one effort using seedheads, metal, wool, sequins, acrylic paints, paper mosaic and a few other things […]

Brighton and Lewes Downs Unesco Biosphere

Brighton and Lewes Downs are now a UNESCO World Biosphere site (Ditchling is included) UNESCO have included the Brighton & Lewes Downs internationally recognised for: We are the first completely new World Biosphere site established in the UK for almost 40 years, the first ever in south-east England and one of only a handful worldwide […]

Pevensey Bay

On our way home, we were looking for the road that runs past Pevensey Castle and took a wrong turning and found our way down to the beach at Couden, very old fashioned seaside beach. We drove along very small single track road between the sea and Pevensey Levels on our way, many sheep […]

little green road sweeper in Paris

In the dark Just a spark, Small and green, Barely seen, Wizzing here Wizzing there, Hoovering up the dirt and muck, like a little busy ant, but noisy like an elephant. Lights go on around the square… birds, flap their wings, somewhere, someone sings. Time to go People coming, Disappearing, hoovering, humming. m.joy […]

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