Are you weary? Anxious? Overwhelmed with repeated disappointments? Do you just want to crawl into the corner of self-pity and slump there? Well there’s a cheery start to a blog if ever there was one. But it’s where I am… Read More »Are You Weary?
What’s in the Store cupboard? Ice-cream, cake, easy microwave meals quickly bought, quickly gone, or are the staples there: meat or pulses, veg and fruit, milk and cheese, flour and pasta, rice: things that can be drawn upon to make… Read More »What’s in the Store Cupboard?
Change is part of life, and most of us don’t really like it. We’re used to the status quo, reasonably comfortable, or at very least able to cope with how things are – the known, the familiar, the safe. Or… Read More »Dealing with Change
I didn’t need flowers – in fact I’d bought some the day before. I wasn’t feeling sad, bad or particularly mad, in fact it had been a good day of small achievements, connecting with family and friends, a pleasant walk… Read More »God Sent Peonies: Getting Into a Lifestyle of Thankfulness
Do you ever feel like you’re spiralling downwards and can’t reach the brakes? This has happened to me a few times during these weeks of Covid-19 isolation. Most of the time things are fine – after all I’m one of… Read More »When Lockdown is Hard