I recently re-read Keats ‘to Autumn’ and no matter how many biscuit tins it now graces, the poetry is no less beautiful and seems so particularly true this year. Ian and I have often been out walking in these golden,… Continue Reading …

Time passes and I feel less hurt and angry then when I wrote my last journal entry. Due in part to time and in part to some grace unexpectedly received from attending a traditional church service for the first time… Continue Reading …

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 …