It’s in the air now: the scent, the coolness, the hint of change. I’ve hung the two little wooden birds Andrew bought me at either side of the fire place, and on the to do list are jobs like stew apples, call chimney sweep and buy oil. There are blackberries in the hedges and last…
Category: Small Things
Where I reflect on the good things in the past week
Small Things
Ah, the small things. Where would we all be without them? Here are some of the small things giving big lifts to my heart at the moment: *Elizabeth Goudge novels. There’s nothing pretentious about them; the stories are really quite simple, but the settings are perfect in their wildness and the plots draw you in deep. *RoseHill…
How to Spend a Summer
I began this summer with very few plans, just 6 weeks or thereabouts stretched ahead of me to fill and enjoy and make the most of. As the weeks have gone on, I have learnt a lot about myself and life. Past summers have been spent doing all kinds of wonderful things: climbing mountains, learning to…
I’ve gone a little bit quiet…
You may have noticed that there haven’t been a great deal of new posts coming up on here recently. Lately, writing’s just not coming as easily as usual, so I’m trying to use my spare time to rest and to nurture my creativity rather than force it. Life of course is carrying on, a sweet…
10 Happy Things
This week, I’m defying my urge to write a rant about the EU referendum and its result. Instead, here’s a list of 10 Happy Things brightening up my week: Making a Nature Journal, as inspired by Emma Caton. I am constantly in wonder at the natural world, and putting some of that wonder into a…
Life Lately
The last fortnight or so has been a time of living quite intensely – making big decisions, riding a roller-coaster of big emotions and pushing myself over some big hurdles. I guess that sometimes it just happens that the big things coincide and collide all at once, and we just have to take them in our…
Small Things: 30 Days Wild
Fairly regularly on this blog, I write ‘Small Things’ posts, which are lists of the sweet and simple things I’m thankful for. It’s my way of making sure I don’t miss the best bits of life. When I sit down to compile a Small Things post, that’s my time to take stock and notice that whatever…
Small Things: White
If yellow is the colour of optimism and warmth, white is the shade of eternity and light. White denotes goodness, peace and strength. The white lights of the moon and stars bring magic to our nights. All of the best heroes and heroines – they of great power against evil – are clad in white….
Small Things: Yellow
It’s the colour of Spring, and probably the colour of Summer, too. Often identified with happiness, yellow is undeniably an optimistic hue. It turns out that quite a few of my favourite things are yellow and this week a number of them have been brightening my life: *Roses, bought by Andrew to cheer me up….
Light & Small Things
I’m not sure if it’s depression I’ve got, or just disappointment or grief. Whatever it is, it makes getting up even harder work than it usually is. It is also the reason I only swam half the lengths I usually do on Monday, and the cause of my sudden inadequacy at making conversation. The days can be…
Small Things
Last Sunday, the speaker at church gave a message that really chimed with the way I want to live my life. He was talking about thankfulness, something that has already impacted me in a powerful way. The need for gratitude has become a recurring theme in much of my writing and is, in fact, one of the main reasons I write…
On Post
Don’t you love getting post? Not the kind that pings onto a screen, the real kind, that surprises you as it drops through the letterbox, the kind that you can hold in your hand. I recently had surgery, and suddenly was blessed with a flurry of post: cards, flowers, clothes, books and of course, plenty…
Life Lived 