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Cultivating Intuition and Faith; Wholehearted Living series Guidepost 5

What was I writing the other week about serendipity and things creeping up when you most need them? I haven’t written a Wholehearted Living post for… a month and a half? How did that happen? But never mind: here I was today, prone on the settee and watching Anne with an E, wondering what I could do to add something to my life today… when … Continue reading Cultivating Intuition and Faith; Wholehearted Living series Guidepost 5

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Surviving Isolation: A Proposal

Psst… want to know a secret? Want a crazy-but-just-might-work way to survive social isolation and distancing? Even if you have to work from home? Go through a secret portal and enter your favourite land. No, really. At the moment everyone is driving themselves mad wanting to get back to the real world, a world we just can’t get to. We’re looking at life wrong. What … Continue reading Surviving Isolation: A Proposal

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Magazine Monday: The Simple Things April 2020 Kind

Bluebell Woods and Treasure Hunts How is your world in Lockdown? Life gets very essential, doesn’t it? As in, it’s essential that I spend a lot of time on Twitter or Facebook communicating to family and friends as life whizzes by. I never realised how much we take simple things for granted, but actually when a good belly laugh can leave you wheezing and the … Continue reading Magazine Monday: The Simple Things April 2020 Kind

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Slow Living is Easy when there’s no Pace But Slow

I’m writing this from my bed. I’ve got a temperature and a persistent cough. Wish me luck: I’m hoping for a gentle case of this so that, as usually happens with my family, when the next person falls ill in 24 to 48 hours’ time, I’ll be feeling up to handling their care. At the moment, it would take a lot to get me to … Continue reading Slow Living is Easy when there’s no Pace But Slow

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Magazine Monday: In The Moment Issue 36: March 2020

Oh, my word. Has there ever been anything as frankly bizarre as the last week in the UK? It really doesn’t matter who you are, it seems, the Coronavirus has you in its sights and the only thing between us and a mass pandemic that will cause mayhem in the Health Service and potentially decimate our pensioners is the simple act of STAYING HOME. Yes, … Continue reading Magazine Monday: In The Moment Issue 36: March 2020

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Hygge in the Time of Coronavirus

When a massive event happens in your life, it’s hard sometimes to think about a life beyond that event. Falling in love, having a baby, serious illness and bereavement can all leave you in a fog and looking at life through coloured spectacles… and sometimes that colour is black. For most people, they find a coping mechanism, deal with the feelings as they arise and … Continue reading Hygge in the Time of Coronavirus

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At last! A challenge I have been training for all my life!

Have you ever watched a programme or read an article about a feat of superhuman achievement and thought “That would be absolutely impossible for me”. Usually in my case it’s climbing mountains, swimming the channel, running a marathon or ironing while hanging upside down by a slender piece of rope from a rocky outcrop on a lethal climb. Extreme ironing, it’s a sport. Not on … Continue reading At last! A challenge I have been training for all my life!

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Book Friday: Ichigo Ichie by Hector Garcia and Francesca Miralles

There’s a beautiful word called ‘synchronicity’, which means the fortuitous (or not)  simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection. I had this happen this week when I grabbed the next book in my Book Friday series and read it, only to realise that the lessons it had for me to learn were exactly the lessons I needed to … Continue reading Book Friday: Ichigo Ichie by Hector Garcia and Francesca Miralles

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