Like many people in these ‘interesting’ times, our family has been going through many difficulties, disappointments and high levels of change. On Friday of this last week, we were due to finalise our sale of Badarroch House in Scotland and… Continue Reading …

Here at the Vicarage, the vine on the south stone wall is turning a deep rich autumnal red and there’s that cool taste behind the sweetness of the September sun. So the wheel turns, the summer holidays draw to their… Continue Reading …

If you reading this, you’ll have noticed my belated flurry of journaling as I attempt to catch up with all the changes Living Spirit and our family have been going through. Steam has been rising from the new Vicarage office… Continue Reading …

I don’t think we are quite out of the transitional phase but we certainly have made some new beginnings. One small but significant effort on my part was to make sure that we actually had at least a small summer… Continue Reading …

If you have ever been through any kind of birth experience, then you’ll know that before a new beginning always comes a transitional time. This can be kind of graced but it can also be kind of like hell…or both!… Continue Reading …

I see it’s been a couple of months since I last wrote in this blog, which says everything about how busy and stressed I’ve been over this period! Given the high levels of change Living Spirit is going through, it’s… Continue Reading …

It’s just a fortnight until the next of Martin Shaw’s ‘Wheel of Story’ Storytelling Workshops. This will be our final event at Living Spirit’s current venue at beautiful Bonehill House… so let’s make it a full house and one to… Continue Reading …

Everything seems to grow and change so fast at this time of the year. The wisteria has been overtaken by the roses and the meadow is lush with flowering grasses. Down by the pond I’ve seen my first ever ‘broad-bodied… Continue Reading …