What an electric whisk taught me about the fear of wasting time
It all started here. A small square kitchen, patterned wallpaper that I’m pretty sure had something to do with chickens, and a flap-fold...
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- Mar 13
- 3 min
The ‘Paradoxology’ of Insomnia
On the day of my father’s funeral, I walked the dog in the morning moonlight - a weak leftover circle of white that glimmered beyond the...
- Feb 24
- 3 min
Sometimes, it's in the doing
It was a simple comment, overheard as friends chatted while I quietly tidied up some music things at church. One had walked the Camino a...
- Aug 22, 2023
- 2 min
When you’re heading for the rock face…
Sometimes it feels like you’re speeding straight into a rock face, full steam ahead. Oh wait, in this case, it’s because we actually...
- Jul 6, 2023
- 2 min
When change feels impossible
Some years back, when I was at an all-time low in my career (feeling like I was slowly disappearing in a job I had once loved but which...
- May 24, 2023
- 5 min
Low tide swim
A week ago, I finally made it down to the sea for a swim. I still have the scars to prove it. It had been so long and I had longed for...
- Mar 31, 2023
- 2 min
The lifebuoy and the telescope
I love this little look out platform, hidden within the scrubby trees just off Patterson’s Walk in Ferring. The sea view is predictable...
- Mar 14, 2023
- 2 min
Time like tides
If our hours were salt water flowing over a shoreline then our to-do lists and interruptions would be the force of the waves, the tides...
- Feb 9, 2023
- 4 min
‘40 Days with Labyrinths’ by Fay Rowland – a wandering book review
One of the first labyrinths I ever walked was marked in duct tape on the floor of Chichester Cathedral. It just so happened I had found...
- Jan 17, 2023
- 1 min
The Groynes of East Wittering
They are so tall. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen groynes so tall. Further up the beach, at Bracklesham Bay - where we had eaten steak...
- Jan 2, 2023
- 1 min
Try anyway...
New Year 2023 It seemed crazy. Impossible. The rain rattled against the windows and the more sensible family members did query our sanity...
- Nov 11, 2022
- 3 min
‘Comparison is the thief of joy’ (…and one-upmanship his favourite accomplice!)
I don’t recall exactly when I first stumbled upon this wonderful Theodore Roosevelt quote in an old library book. What I do remember is...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 5 min
Memory is an unreliable narrator (Provence part two)
I flicked through the pages intrigued, a bemused smile of disbelief creeping across my face. Who WAS this girl? She worked convivially...
- Sep 6, 2022
- 3 min
Attic finds - an old painting and its memories
(Aka: Provence part one) I painted this picture many many years ago, sometime in the months after I first lived in southern France and,...
- May 31, 2022
- 3 min
Things that are hard to talk about
Some things are hard to talk about. Like lichen. I mean, I love it, but how exactly do you say it? Do you ‘like liken’ or ‘itch for...
- Apr 28, 2022
- 3 min
Taking the plunge
Things a cold water swim can teach you about life I felt it in my toes first. The cold slipway underneath my bare feet showed no mercy...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min
Evidence or experience?
I hesitated. I’d planned to do a walk. All day, rain had clattered at the windows but now the sun had burst through and I had 40 minutes...
- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
The smugness of wellies
Smug. That’s what I was. The water swirled and fizzed around my feet but I was completely dry. While others played ‘chicken’, running for...
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
Book review: Stories from the heart
Stories from the heart for older generations by Olusola Sophia Anyanwu I have always loved short stories – the way you can dip in and out...
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