Today, on my yoga mat I practiced. I love the way my instructor refers to my class as a practice. It is not a performance; there are no comparisons allowed; we are not to get frustrated when we fall out of a pose; we are to honour our bodies; listen to them; tune in; and…

In a clearing on the outskirts of the ancient woods, in view of the gently rolling meadows, an untended bonfire sparked and crackled. I hurried home to retrieve my camera. This was too good to be ignored! I took my photo and later, when I was skyping my Zoo Keeper son, he asked, “What’s an…

I saw a poodle with dreadlocks and although I could have taken a photo I thought it would be a little presumptuous of me so you will have to make do with an image I found on line and trust me that I did indeed see a Puli which looked remarkably like a standard poodle…

In front of me on the perimeter of the ancient woodlands of Beckenham Place Park, my new favourite haunt, I saw a flock of wood pigeons pecking in the mud at whatever it is birds peck at to keep their beaks nice and muddy and their tummies full. As I approached they lifted off as…

Sometimes technology blows me away.  I have no idea how it works, but as I said to my children while flawlessly educating them, “You don’t have to know how digestion works for it to work…” and they would nod, mouths full, then swallow knowing their bodies would go with the flow! I am a total…

It happened again! I’ve checked my visage and there is absolutely nothing missing, no nick, no snag, no lost jig saw part… No piercings even! Yet somehow my anatomy lets me down just as I’m dashing off somewhere. I dutifully freshen my breath so I am pleasant to stand next to and there it is….

Buying Christmas and birthday presents for my mother was always very difficult.  I knew what she didn’t like, cut flowers for a start, so roses were out; anything edible, she went shopping once a week; nothing useful for the kitchen, nothing housewife related at all in fact, so all the nifty gadgets were out and…

The air, as we strode purposefully through the park this weekend, was freezing. Hubs had to keep pulling out his kleenex to wipe his nose.  I let my rhino droplets evaporate, or freeze. It was a “gloriously, crisp, winter’s day” as we stalwart Englishmen say. “Aren’t we lucky?” observed a fellow walker and complete stranger,…

We went to see a film today during the early afternoon.  It was still light when we came out so it was early! We chose our seats, they’re reserved remember? When we got into the theatre we were met by an usher, he was sitting in the back row of a completely empty cinema. “May…

Our youngest daughter arrived home from Texas today. She confidently says she has three homes, Dallas, London and Leigh on Sea.  My mother always said she had lost us when we referred to our abode away from the family home as “home.”  I think this shows my daughter to be well adjusted.  She enjoys having…