December REFLECTIONS 18: I said Hello To…

It has been a funny old year and I cannot claim to have said “Hello” to many new people in the past 12 months. One chance meeting does however stand out in my mind. I belong to a Facebook Group that concerns itself with cooking on the go – meaning by and large, in Motorhomes …

December Reflections 17: Things I Missed

Much of what I have missed in 2020 has been covered by the prompts so far and I don’t plan to dwell on any of it. It is clear to any reader how much I (we) have missed our travels and that we really missed going to Portugal this winter. I wrote yesterday of my …

December Reflections 16: Plant Love

PLANT noun1. a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.Similar: herb flower vegetable shrub weed greenery flora Dahlia, I believe Just …

December Reflections 15: Difficult day in 2020

Oh, wow, we have to pick just one from all of those difficult days? Sticking a pin into my diary, I come up with The Day That We Didn’t Stay In Germany. Back at the beginning of September we set off from home in the hope of travelling to Germany, through Austria and beyond, to …

December Reflections 14: Mask Selfie

No! Really? Must I? I do not have a happy relationship with face masks. One of the several reasons that I gave up my work in the NHS was because I had much trouble with mask-wearing and more than once had to fight off an overwhelming urge to tear a mask from my face whilst …

December Reflections 17: things I Missed

Before we sold up in Orkney and went on the road for a while, I had a large desk in our shared office where I would write with pen and ink or with electrons, a craft room for my paper crafts and photo studio etc, a caravan in the garden for my fibre crafts, and …