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February 7, 2020
A New Year… New Decade – Try Something New
DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT! Positive. Healing. Enjoyable and beneficial. Come Walking With The Goddess! Time to move out of the shade and into the sunlight. Take your life in both of your hands and make a difference… for yourself… for the people around you.. for the natural world.. for the planet. Healing for all the Earth […]
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January 21, 2020
Looking At The World Through A Chocolate Wrapper
Does the world around us really change, or is it just the way we perceive it that alters? In other words, what do we really see? What is real and what is illusion? For instance, after the past glorious days of pale spring sunshine, clear blue skies and dramatically clear mountains we are once more […]
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January 4, 2020
Happy Distaff Day!
I must be one of very few people who was actually delighted to return to work on Thursday… in fact, I could hardly wait! When I refer to ‘work’, I am actually talking about my writing and I have been desperate to begin work proper on my next full length book for months, but had […]
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December 31, 2019
The Twelve Days of Christmas
I hope that you have all had/are having a wonderful Midwinter/Christmas? This Advent got off to a cracking and early start with my trip to Germany and the amazing Christmas markets – not to mention lots of time spent with Holger’s family. I have also been invited to more Christmas parties and gatherings than ever […]
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December 24, 2019
A Very Happy Christmas!
After such an eventful and truly magical Advent, nearly all the pre-Christmas preparations and activities are complete. Today I have presents to wrap and one or two gifts and cards to hand deliver around the village. I have listened to my own advice and ditched my plans to make a wonderful savoury hot dinner this […]
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December 21, 2019
A Very Merry Midwinter!
To all my valued readers and very dear friends – both literally and electronically – greetings! The time is almost upon us… it is the Solstice! Longest, darkest night and shortest day… the turning point when we plunge into three days of darkness before re-emerging to the re-birth of the Light on the morning of […]
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December 16, 2019
The Very ‘Hairy Child’
Misbehaving moustaches, inventive costumes and props, imaginative sound effects and a very supportive audience. All successful children’s nativity plays have a team of hard-working and dedicated adults behind them. Our own Christmas celebration at the Quaker Meeting House yesterday was no exception. Our Meetings for worship are usually largely silent, but once a year, just […]
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December 13, 2019
Christmas Grocery Shopping…
Yesterday I ventured out into Retail Land and did my big grocery shop for the Midwinter period. I try to be as organised as possible – write out a schedule of special days for which I want/need to specially cater, decide on menus and write a shopping list accordingly. Most of my purchases are ingredients […]
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December 9, 2019
Hugs To All!
Just a quick reminder to everyone that I shall be talking about my latest book, ‘The Alternative Advent Calendar’, with Selina Mackenzie on Talk Radio Europe just after 1.pm. today. In view of the slight furore which my query about ‘Black Friday’ and observation about the derivation of the name ‘Black Peter’ caused yesterday, I […]
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December 8, 2019
Politically Correct?
If the use of the word ‘black’ is now seen as politically incorrect (as in the instance of Saint Nicholas and his companion, Black Peter, in the Netherlands), how come everyone is now being allowed to use the term ‘Black Friday’? Personally, I think that disallowing the use of the word ‘black’ is quite ridiculous […]
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