Engagement Ring

What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today? That’s what we do We bought my engagement ring in Hatton Garden in London in 1991, after an hour of walking between two shops trying to decide between a diamond ring and an aquamarine and diamond. The aquamarine lost and I still miss it. We’d both got anContinueContinue reading “Engagement Ring”

Fruit and Nutcase

List your top 5 favorite fruits. Years ago in the UK there was an advert for Cadburys Fruit and Nut chocolate bars, with the very catchy song “everyone’s a fruit and nutcase”. A nutcase bring a happily crazy person. It was one of those ditties that you find yourself singing 40 years later, it wasContinueContinue reading “Fruit and Nutcase”

Stay Calm and Centred

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? The heart knows I’ve had a situation recently that would knock anyone off-centre. Upsetting, disruptive, and full of new experiences you just have to face up to and get on with. I’ve done okay. Way better than expected, but obviously I’ve had my moments. However,ContinueContinue reading “Stay Calm and Centred”

Evolution?

Atomic BombsWe think of a bomb as a physical thingDesigned to destroy by a manBut in truth there were ‘bombs’ way back whenThat had an impact as big as The Bang!The first was the time when two humans appearedAnd they looked at each other and saidEither you’re upside down or you’re wearing a frownAs yourContinueContinue reading “Evolution?”

Wrong Fit

The red puzzle piece has done nothing wrong I was talking to my Guide tonight about a question I had in my mind about a relationship in my life. Nothing bad, just mulling over difference. He said something absolutely brilliant. “If you were doing a jigsaw puzzle and found a piece in the box fromContinueContinue reading “Wrong Fit”

The Old Woman and the Cracked Pot

I just heard the most charming story which goes like this… An elderly villager walked to the river every morning and filled her water pots. One pot was smooth, perfect, the other was cracked. By the time she reached the village the cracked pot was half empty. One day the cracked pot told her howContinueContinue reading “The Old Woman and the Cracked Pot”

I feel a poem coming on

What does freedom mean to you? I’ve never had freedom. Not to think for myself as a child, not to be myself, not to do what I wanted to do. I’ve had loneliness and isolation but never freedom. I tried to help myself, I wanted to go to university when I was young and IContinueContinue reading “I feel a poem coming on”