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  • Discover Prompts: Grateful for Rainbows in Windows

    Discover Prompts: Grateful for Rainbows in Windows

    I’m grateful to the children, families and schools who’ve made pictures for windows and fronts of buildings as a way of saying thank you to NHS workers and frontline workers and as a means of expressing hope that things will get better.  Here is a selection of artwork I’ve seen as I’ve walked around the Read more

  • Discover Prompts: Focus

    Discover Prompts: Focus

    One person’s method of focus is another person’s route to distraction. Other people’s rules rarely work for me.  I need to find my own routine and sometimes, often, that isn’t a routine at all.  I listen to my own rhythms and they change daily.  I write lists and this helps me to focus on what Read more

  • Corona Diary: One month in

    Corona Diary: One month in

    It’s one month since we started lockdown in the UK and about six weeks since I wrote my first blog post about this time of the Covid-19 pandemic. People talk about not knowing what day it is, about time passing slowly, or quickly, or both; one day merging into the next, sleep patterns disrupted, routines Read more

  • A bee brings summer

    A bee brings summer

      poem for Earth Day   *     With a reckless swoop             you patter at my window frantic as a delivery boy             who’s slept through months of orders. You’re a fizzing blur of antenna, legs and wings;             a pantomine of lanes and hilly streets; lines of washing you’ve bashed against             to arrive here steeped Read more

  • Three photos from my camera roll

    Three photos from my camera roll

    Now that I’m not going anywhere of any distance from where I live, I’m sometimes revisiting places in my head while I’m scrolling through the camera roll on my phone.  I thought I’d share three photos with you here and tell you something about them. This photo of a glum-looking dog was taken on the Read more

  • Lockdown Conversations

    Lockdown Conversations

    I’m thinking about new things happening during lockdown and one thing is unexpected subjects turning up in conversation now that we’re spending more time at home and, for some of us, more time than usual with the same group of people.  I’m here in Wiltshire with Andrew, my husband, and our two adult children who’ve Read more