Going away

Going away

It’s funny the rain, when you’re going away, driving you backwards making you stay. Each raindrop a something forgotten to do, or just one more phone call, or visit or two. Leaving you heavy with burdens behind, yet, given time, evaporates away – much like the worries and cares of the day. So I’m leaving, getting out and going away - I may come back someday, one-day, – Monday? I’ll be Forrest gardening if you need me, with Martin Crawford, down in deepest Devon, just far enough away! Looking for a new perspective, what better than permaculture to give...

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The butterfly effect

Has anyone seen a butterfly yet? I saw a Red  Admiral drifting over some crocuses in my garden on February 16. Pure existence. Pure presence, out on the hunt for nectar, a familiar pastime that we have all engaged in. And I thought there it was free, much freer than I in so many ways. Do butterflies worry about repaying their mortgage, do they worry at all? Do butterflies have to drive to the supermarket? Do butterflies have to contend with the glories of teenage children? Do butterflies have to write sermons, wash up, buy new socks? Butterflies never...

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Podcast Junkie

Podcast Junkie

When one comes back to reality, like the weeks following Easter, from all the festivities, there is the desperate need to ‘Catch up’ on what one might have missed! The news from the world was of weddings and atrocities – nothing new there then. Ploughing through the podcast list, I am now reliably informed on such matters as diverse as Solar energy, immortality, cacao, ship wreaks of Britain and the like. Not to mention the latest goings on the humble village of Ambridge. I think my brain is now full and I could do with a week to ‘download’...

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May

Holidays, holidays, holidays… it’s all there seems to be, what with the long weekend for Easter, ‘the Wedding’ weekend, and at the end of may – school half term and the Spring Bank Holiday. What with the annual ‘Cadi Ha’ on the 7th at Holywell and Caerwys once again this year, the winter blues have certainly been banished this spring. But with all these holidays, what about work? I’m sure all the essential things will always get done, no matter how many holidays their are. The need for a break, time to catch up with oneself is always very...

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Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Early on Easter morn, just before dawn, as the chorus of birds are beginning, all over the land children rush down to the breakfast table to see how much chocolate they have conned various relatives into buying this year! Later that afternoon, cardboard and foil wrappers litter the living room floor, discarded in favour of the sweet brown delight that lurks within each one of them. Do we blame them? Well no, because we were once like that with chocolate smeared grins of satisfaction and who are we to deny the innocent pleasure in chocolate! Chocolat is such a...

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Resurrected – Paper

Resurrected – Paper

This is the message printed on the back of our Easter Service books, hot off the press today!! Well, at least one person found it amusing when I wrote it, we’ll have to wait and see what the general consensus is.  (The paper is covered in plastic, so no contamination is possible)  You too can do this: www.creativepaperwales.co.uk

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  • Nostalgia

    “See you back at the ranch” Such an innocuous comment after a game of squash you would think, not one to inspire a weekend of thought and nostalgia, but that it did. It so happens that my previous squash partner of 10 (yes that’s TEN) years standing or so used to say that at the end of almost every game. It also didn’t help that it was a particularly sunny afternoon and the best times were spent sat on a bench outside the office with tea and a rollie watching the world go by and chatting with all who came by. To the casual observer no work was being done, it might even have been suggested that we were ‘lazing’ but in reality it was on that bench that the world was put to rights, programes came to life, films discussed new projects organised and life generally was good.

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