Keep Pedalling!
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.’ – Albert Einstein
The annual Cape Town Cycle Tour took place here last weekend… … More Keep Pedalling!
Taking the adventure Aslan sends
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.’ – Albert Einstein
The annual Cape Town Cycle Tour took place here last weekend… … More Keep Pedalling!
‘The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt After being in the same place for almost eight weeks, it’s time to move again. A season back in beautiful Bath was blighted only by the … More On The Move Again
‘Rather than flounder in the mire of disappointment that my expectations and my reality are currently not aligning well, I’m going to take my own advice ‘ … More Expectations Adjustment
‘ I expected to see a chalk outline and reference to some grisly murder, so was somewhat surprised to find only two small branches that had broken from the trees during the bad weather.’ … More Danger versus Catastrophe
January feels like a good time to undertake a sort out; to be organised, tidy and set up for whatever the year brings. … More Cluttering and Decluttering
‘To prepare our hearts for Christmas we must cultivate the spirit of expectancy’ – Handel H Brown – pastor and author, Florida USA. I was standing by my mother in a school hall recently, singing some well-loved carols. They are by now, so familiar to me that the words are embedded in my memory banks, … More ‘The Spirit of Expectancy’
‘Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow’ – Thomas Obadiah Chisholm – hymn writer 1866–1960 I’ve been writing this blog for over eight years now, and when re-reading the Christmas posts I discovered that I’ve repeatedly returned to the theme of hope. As I pondered what to write in this Advent piece, I can’t … More Hope For The Hopeless
I have a new She-roe: Madam Gisèle Pelicot. … More My She-roes
‘I’ve felt quite overwhelmed by world events this week, so it was good to be reminded that others have felt similarly over generations and found a path of hope’ … More More Perspective
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.’ – Daniel Boone (American pioneer and explorer) Having reached my milestone birthday this month (which was neither so overwhelming nor so intimidating as the one that popped along twenty years ago), I’ve been doing some reflecting about people, places and experiences. Over … More Some Perspective