Posted in Blogroll, Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Reading on April 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Misslionheart has tagged me and and the idea is to list 5 things I wish to achieve during the week ahead and hopefully get motivated! Well I am a great one for making lists but getting motivated to actually carry out the itemised tasks usually requires a blunt kick up the backside. I’ve been having a look at some of [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Reading on December 18, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, on our way back home from a Christmas meal somewhere in the Midlands, we paid a random visit to Anne Hathaway’s cottage in Shakespeare country. And we couldn’t have picked a better day because the weather was fresh and crisp and we were just in time for the roasted chestnuts and mulled wine. And the tour guides were dressed up [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry on November 11, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’ve finally relented. My dear old trusty walking boots have served me well for the last fifteen years and they have taken me up and down some of the highest mountains in Britain but I have to accept that they are no longer functional as protective footwear for hiking. They let in water which takes the fun out of walking through streams [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Poetry, Politics on November 11, 2007 | No Comments »
My little boy painted this Georgia O’Keefe poppy last year when he was only seven. It wasn’t painted with Remembrance day in mind but the subject being a poppy, I think it’s appropriate for today.
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There are very many beautiful and moving war poems and my very favourite would probably be Wildred Owen’s Dulce et Decorum Est but here is another sad [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Poetry, Reading on November 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Writer and poet Margaret Atwood is also the inventor of LongPen, an innovation that allows people to carry out booksignings without flying around the world thus saving co2 emissions. Click on the picture to find out more about LongPen.
Margaret has been talking to Friends of the Earth about her carbon-saving invention which you can read here.
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Moments, Poetry, Pondering, Reading on July 12, 2007 | 8 Comments »
On Dalekophobia: Yikes! Ye great gods of terror! My lovely little boy, fully aware that I’ve never grown out of my irrational childhood fear of Daleks, thought it would be fun to surprise me at bedtime last night so he did this:
Yes, I realise it’s not real . . . that it’s just a teeny tiny replicated [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, Poetry, Pondering on May 14, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I love this wonderful green Earth and all it’s inhabitants,
from the furry woodland creatures to the ugliest swamp-dwelling toads,
from the great big hairy spider to the slimy delights in the undergrowth,
from intimidating mountains to sweet little valleys,
from the ecosystems of the glorious Amazonian rainforests to the messy life that buzzes in the boggy marsh across the road from my house.
Plants, flowers, [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Family, Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Poetry, Politics, Pondering on May 14, 2007 | 8 Comments »
The very wonderful Loneranger has been working admirably on a peace project over on his blog and he has also created an online petition which asks for all peace-desiring people across the world to sign in support of peace.
Peace is the most natural state of being. It’s the only thing that the world has never tested and it’s [...]
Posted in Humanity, Moments, Mother Earth, News, Poetry on November 2, 2006 | 3 Comments »
Does anyone else ever get this? I really want to write something tonight but I have no idea what to write about. I’m all fired up with nothing to write.
I’ve no excuse because I’ve read the news and there’s much to discuss; plenty of green issues to tackle such as the all-in/all-party political fight for [...]
Posted in Celebrating Lives, Female Issues, Humanity, Moments, Poetry on September 6, 2006 | 8 Comments »
When I’m shopping in town with my children, we sometimes pass the luxury ice-cream kiosk and if my kids clock it, they drag me over and I treat them to a fancy ice-cream. Sometimes, but not often, I’ll have one myself. But certainly never by myself.
Well today, with the kids back at school, I was in town alone [...]
Posted in Female Issues, Humanity, Moments, Poetry on August 29, 2006 | 6 Comments »
I reserve the right to be free,
the right to food and water,
the right to shelter.
I reserve the right to look ridiculous,
the right to be embarrassed,
or shy and self-conscious.
I reserve the right to be bold and confident.
I reserve the right to sulk,
the right to be miserable…
to wallow in self-pity
and cry.
I reserve the right to be joyous.
I [...]
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