My husband teases that “I am tired” is the phrase he most often hears coming out of my mouth. He hears it first thing in the morning as I snooze the alarm for the third time in a row, pull the duvet up past my ears and scrunch up my eyes against the morning light,…
We celebrated the Autumn Equinox with a feast of curry on Friday night at our local Indian restaurant, an early morning train ride to Germany, a 32km ride along the river to Trier for an all-you-can eat breakfast (complete with German beer) and then home for a gentle afternoon preparing food our second equinox feast…
When we travelled two years ago to the USA for a friend’s wedding, our favourite place was not Las Vegas, where her wedding was. It wasn’t the beautiful Californian coast or even the stunning Zion national park. It was a place in the middle of nowhere. We were driving somewhere between Zion and the north…
brave. what is brave. what is brave… brave is not avoiding – well, brave is avoiding a little and then getting back into the saddle after a good cry. brave is leaving. packing your life into a car and driving 2,000 miles to a foreign land named wisconsin. brave is loving friends around the world,…
Photo Source The Truman Show is a favourite film of mine. The first time I watched it I was hooked from the opening shots, and crying buckets by the end when Truman took his bow. You know that scene in the film (I’m assuming you’ve seen it at this point but spoiler alert if you…
Photo source: Under the Canopy by Roman Johnston on Earthshots.org This coming Saturday, 22nd September, is the autumnal equinox (in the northern hemisphere). It’s the second day of the year in which the light and the darkness are equal to each other (the first is the Spring Equinox), balancing each other perfectly before the next…