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During these last six months I have surprised myself. I have watched insects and looked at flowers and other plants more closely than ever before. I allowed a beautiful green beetle to crawl up my arm, I watched ants eating aphids and counted butterflies for 15 minutes for the butterfly count. I gave sugary water…
Empty Nest Syndrome
I’m suffering from empty nest syndrome. All the nests in my garden or which I can see from the windows are empty. The last ones to go were the house martins and I suddenly realised last night as I went to bed that I couldn’t hear the chicks in the nest above the bedroom window….
A reflection from Bishop Bev:
Exodus 2.23-3.20 (http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=452037928) From the unseen place, Yahweh is concerned for his people. He sees and hears their cries. They are his people, yet many had turned from him to the Egyptian gods and I wonder, too, if some had dared to believe there was no god. Gods had a fearful reputation. They were capricious,…
The Last Rabbit
When I was at school studying for O level English I was made to read 2 poems. The first one was Alexander Pope’s “Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot”, and it shows how much I enjoyed it that I can only remember the first line. Even in the exam I could only quote that first line and…
Soulful Nature
I have started reading Soulful Nature. A spiritual field guide by Brian Draper and Howard Green. Yesterday I began to think that I had chosen the wrong time to start this book as at the end of each chapter are things to do such as visiting a favourite place, which of course we can’t do…
A Mischief of Magpies
I’m sitting in the dining room trying to read a book which I’m finding very difficult and dry. It’s one of those books that uses six words where one would have done but that also uses the synonyms tab to find the most obscure word to mean something very simple; either that or the author…