Only if you say so

“It’s never too late” is a phrase we hear ourselves say to others all the time.   People will tell us about something they want to do, place they want to go and how they’re hesitating or feeling it’s too late…and we will...

Buddah and Anger

“Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.” Oh my goodness, what an emotive quote that is.   Attributed to Buddha and one which rings true on so many levels for so many of us.  It certainly does for me. I...

Softening Hard Edges

For nearly 3 weeks we’ve been having our front drive reconfigured.  At one stage we had a ‘moat’ as a lot of soil around a rose bed was dug out. Noisy, dusty, dirty and longer-than-quoted.  Heyho.   We stayed in the ‘messy...

Thrown in again

After a break of nearly 12 months off I went again!  One of my positive intentions for 2023 is to pick up speaking French again and to reconnect with a tutor – and scratch my brain for vocabulary lurking in there from the 1990s when I lived in Paris....

Create space and trust

There’s a well-known saying “as one door closes another one opens” and it’s true, just not always obviously nor on the same day. As I decided mid-year last year that it was time to change things up in my life, create more space, work more...

Backwards and forwards

We’re often being told to “stop living in the past” and to “forget it, it’s gone” or such advice.   The intention is positive of course.  We can’t change what’s happened and we can’t undo or unsay...

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