So last night I sent the evening drinking tea and watching the British Sewing Bee with Alice and Hebe, and then the first series of Celebrit...

Piece by piece, category by category, I have been working on simplifying  and quietening my life. I started with my bedroom, working through...

  An expression my mother often used during my childhood was that someone "couldn't see the wood for the trees" — they were so...

  I wish I could remember where I came across this thought so I could accredit it, but in the last week I have listened to such a variety of...

I'm delighted to see that David Towns of Monastic Retreats is offering the opportunity to join in saying Compline together every Wednes...

  At one time (nearly fifty years ago) I had a certain amount to do with the Carmelites at Ware in Hertfordshire. I remember vividly an occa...

There's a YouTube channel I enjoy, called Sven's One Bag Life. This afternoon I was watching a video on this channel, in which Sven ...

  Josh Becker asks a genius question.

  I suppose that you, like me, keep a weather eye on what's going on around you, and have observed the breathless speed with which we ar...

  On Friday evening, Tony and I went down to the sea to walk along  the promenade  in the breeze as the sun was going down. The sea always b...