Dictaphone bliss and YouTube heaven!

One of my birthday presents this year was a dictaphone that I can put on a cord round my neck and take with me everywhere I go.  What a brilliant present!! Thanks, Chris!  I now have a way to save my thoughts as and when I think them, especially when out walking with...

Staffordshire Hoard

Today I gave myself a birthday treat – I went to view the Staffordshire Hoard – a treasure trove of Anglo-Saxon gold weaponry that was unearthed in a farmer’s field in Staffordshire during last summer.  It’s absolutely amazing!  The size of the...

Snow – the power of transformation

I know for many of us that the winter has gone on a long time.  This year’s jet stream has brought lots of snow to places that normally have very little or none of the white stuff.  However, snow is an amazing thing.  It has the power to transform what is normal and...

Meditation with a focus

Have you read that correctly?  Did I really mean that?  Isn’t that against everything that meditation stands for????  On the face of it, it would appear that I’ve either gone nuts, or I don’t really understand what meditation is all about.  If...

Know Yourself

I originally wrote this entry a year ago, and was thinking about this very subject this week when my son and I were having a philosophical discussion on “how do you know when you know yourself?”  In trying to put down in words what we were discussing, I...