Happy birthday Pops..

Happy birthday Pops..

I write this post on my father’s birthday. My dad would have been 104. My amazing precious father is still with me though it is 8 years since he passed.  I have approached this day in a more low key manner than usual, perhaps because this birthday celebrations...
Easter blessings…

Easter blessings…

As I write this post I do so sat in our lovely garden.  Around this time of the year the beech hedge starts to fill out and bloom and this time is no exception. So much has happened in the past two years let alone in the last ten years but nature reminds us of how we...
Cracked open again!!

Cracked open again!!

Last July I made the first big #commitment and change to my life from being in survival mode to perhaps giving myself permission to stretch myself and allow myself to be 💖 loved. It sounds sad and heavy but honestly, it isn’t. I’ve been blessed with a very privileged...
Happy birthday Pops..

The anniversary….

“Grief is a tidal wave that over takes you, smashes down upon you with unimaginable force, sweeps you up into its darkness, where you tumble and crush against unidentifiable surfaces, only to be thrown out on an unknown beach, bruised, reshaped….. grief...
7 years, 7 months and 7 days…the gift.

7 years, 7 months and 7 days…the gift.

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”  Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist. Some of you may know I have a new member in the family, my German shepherd puppy, Oscar. He’s 10 weeks old, adorable and cute with tons of...