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Island Blog 64 – Square Rainbows
This morning I set off along the single track road from my little stone built home in warm sunshine. My task today is to help paint the school shed in a small (but vital) island primary school. The...
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Island Blog 65 – Follow me follow
Yesterday, the Bee Father decided to investigate all his hives. It’s the time for swarming, he tells me and I remember one of those not so long ago; a great blackening of the back garden and the Sun...
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Island Blog 70 – Life is a simple thing
fig: http://favim.com It’s all about breathing in and out for decades, something that happens to us quite naturally. We can take no credit for this and it’s not complicated, until it stops, of course,...
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I believe that grandparents have a gift. One that is gifted to them. They also have a gift to give, through translation, nothing lost, unless they choose to ignore the opportunity it brings them, and...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Alone and Together
This morning I see one bushbuck, one giraffe, one warthog. The bushbuck, nervous, ears twitching for sounds of danger comes to the water hole. He has probably been tossed out of the family group, the...
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There’s a hum I hum when things infuriate or frustrate me, when I meet a bump in the road. It, the hum, begins in upper case and probably in B minor, my favourite key and the one that fits best between...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Sharing the Story
This morning I decided to sort out my freezer. It didn’t take long as there are only 3 drawers below the fridge but you’d be surprised how much of a farrago I can create over time. Most of the bags of...
View ArticleIsland Blog- Rule of Thumb
The dawn turned the far hills blood red. Although Father Sun rises behind my home, he makes his presence known in casts of colour, short-lived but marvellous to see. The sky, flat and brushed with...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Friend, Ships and Wide Open
If I was to ask you – how many true friends do you have – might you have pause for thought? Let me help you out with a definition or two….. A true friend is always wide open. They may not be able, at...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A Wasp and a Think
There’s a wasp. With intentions. She flies into my garage-cum-woodstore at this time every year. I know exactly what she is up to. She is planning to build a nest but I am not having that. However, I...
View ArticleIsland Blog – On Golden
This day it is warmer, even warm. I awaken into the morning, light already, the wind light and the sky bright. No flat grey this morning and no cold wind and I am thankful. It has felt for a while now...
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