My calendar yesterday said “There is more to life when you stop and notice.” A long time ago now I walked the Cotswold Way as part of an organised group.…

When self-isolating began I joined a Facebook group called “the self-isolating bird club”. It has become a big group and has members who have been bird watching for a long…

I wonder who it was that you worshipped as a hero when you were little. Was it a film star or a pop star, a sporting legend or a political…

I was listening to a broadcast on Facebook by Chris Packham. At one point mid-sentence he said “Buzzard”, pointed off to his right and then carried on where he had…

I woke up this morning with this song going round in my head. I didn’t know all the words and had to look them up on the computer, (what did…

When I was a little girl I had a habit of looking backwards while walking. On more than one occasion I collided with a lamp post, and once the metal…

It could be quite easy right now, given the news reports and isolation that we are experiencing, for many us to lose hope. To lose hope in the future, in…

I was sitting at the computer getting really fed up with its latest trick of switching itself off if I so much as blink. It was causing stress, as it…

Well, it's been one of those days when I shouldn't have gotten out of bed. Do you have those days, when everything is going wrong and it feels like it…

I feel like I should be there by now. There in the place that is the new normal, there in the lifestyle that this world demands right now, there contentedly…