A song for you to listen to, just for your happiness this beautiful day, my friends. Namaste. --------------------------------------...

Ages and ages ago Madhur Jaffrey did a series on TV about recipes from all different parts of India.  I never forgot these programmes, they ...

 So many things going through my mind today. Realising that again I had got sucked into someone else’s path and was trying to channel someo...

Friends, in general I try to not make this blog one of those tedious two-a-penny writers’ blogs that boil down to some desperate in...

Today the world is beautiful.  Alternating great heavy grey and purple rainclouds with grand white sailing ships of clouds, dazzling sun and...

Psalm 84 is a favourite of mine.  I love the bit in verse 6 that speaks about people who, going through Valley of Baca (the way of adversity...

So many things going round in my mind. Thinking mainly about social traditions and expectations, the status quo . Divorce and remarriage h...

Yesterday had a large social occasion in it.  I didn’t want to go but it seemed imperative.  Discourteous and ungracious to stay at home....

  This morning Hebe and I caught the train up from Hastings to spend the afternoon in London’s Trafalgar Square, joining with several thou...

 We had this queen wasp in our house.  She came in through the studio door that leads out onto the veranda, and had a good nose round.  Evid...