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A weekend cut off from the Internet No connection to the radio No telephone to contact Wonderful peace and quite Just a little snow on the ground Impassable for the cars a lodge to sleep on the top On the top of the mountain time to be quite with friends...
To-do-lists can be helpful in work, especially if your work involved heavy multitasking. Or to get through certain situations (changing house, renovation etc.). But in everyday life and especially for free time to-do-lists are pure source of anxiety,...
Getting an allotment at the right time for you is rather trial and error. Some manage and others fall by the wayside and find it all too much. Until you actually have your own little plot of land you will not know how much time and work is needed. Having...
A Challenge. How to protect the Doctors. How to protect the Nurses. How to protect those that care. The challenge to life. To be prepared. Snorkel into a ventilator. To be prepared. Masks and equipment. Those that care us will die. The Elite are hidden...
Over the past 18 months, it feels as though e-scooters have taken over many of the world’s cities. Scooter share firms have staked claims in more than 100 cities worldwide. Lime and Bird (from the US) and Voi, Circ, Flash and Tier (from Europe), are start-ups...
Paper toys are brilliant because of their endless possibilities. The only limit is your imagination you can create any shape you want with a piece of paper. It costs nothing, so everybody can make one. You just need to cut it, fold it, and glue it together....
A sweet thought. The land's bond to human is less crucial than our indebtedness to its bounty and tolerance. I feel that with unpredictable weather we've always had to abandon certain projects and show perseverance with others, or regroup in unlikely...
If everyone in the world who are currently using plastic toothbrushes switched to using bamboo toothbrushes would there be enough bamboo? Would new bamboo plantations have to be created and if so would this encroach on any endangered habitats. Are any...
Good health is the absence of illness, so there is limit to the degree to which it can be commodified. Once you are healthy you don't need to buy anything else. End of. "Wellness", on the other hand, is a cunning artefact designed to drain the bank accounts...
a simple trick you can deploy to beat nature at its own game. You can harness the power of tough, low-growing ornamentals to out-compete weeds for space, water and nutrients in these nooks and crannies. Not only will this dramatically reduce the amount...
The wind in the willows sang softly to me Follow my voice wherever it leads From mountains, through valleys, to deep rolling seas Born on the wings of a breeze ~ Ralph McTell, The Wind in the Willows As gardeners, we work our sites to make them accommodate...
The death of frankness is one symptom of the wider dearth of ambient privacy in our daily lives. The cheery Silicon Valley surveillance state that prevents us from speaking plainly in private is the same one that requires us to warn our children – or...
'Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature - It will never fail you'... Two hours a week spent in nature – even if split into short bursts – has been found to give health and wellbeing a significant boost, A sense of tranquility could be the key....
A wee journey across the water. Starting with a pop into the local rural Post Office . Whilst on the shore we could see this sea container ship. . So on this lovely day we embarked our wee ferry. . Such A blue lovely day on the rolling waves abord the...
In England the least used railway station is Berney Arms in Norfolk, which had just 42 passengers last year. The station at Berney Arms, is a request stop consisting of one short platform, a name plate and a tiny wooden shelter, is 30 minutes along a...
Humans, like cats, are very much products of our genetics, as well as culture. A cat wishes to kill mice, a rabbit does not - genetic obviously. Us humans do have cultural drives on the surface of anything we do, but underlying are genes, and we are hunter-gatherers...
Hoya carnosa is a great houseplant. Great to grow from a stem in a bunch of flowers That had started to root in a vase. Winding the twining stems around homemade wire shapes. Beautiful glosssy pointed dark green leaves and scented waxy pink flowers too....
Each morning takes a pleasure in arriving. This morning was clouded all over the sky Splugies and sporidges of rain was falling Coldness was the bracing fierceness wind Options were to remain under sheets in bed But to embrace this delightful day with...
Giving Lavender as a gift So Yesterday I gave Lavender to my violin teacher It was a seedling that has now grown four centimetres It was alone in a medium pot because I had separated it. I had made a small paper label which I had sellotaped it to a straw...
Morning has brought Frost which sheets all around. Spring and Easter have brought both differences Extreme in weather in warmness or even coldness When many live in Cities and co-cooned from life tending not to see a change or similarity in Season Rural...
Spring time is coming Weather is nice for gentle cycling So last week the favourite city bike was taken to the bicycle shop taken there for the annual clean perhaps a new outer tyre for the front definitely a new lamp for the front the brakes could be...
The EU has serious problems, most of the member countries are not doing well, in some, as much as 25% of young people are out of work. The EU has not thought out how to deal with countries who are dilutant with their finances, and several are coming up...
Monday morning Time for a small lovely walk Starting at Ardgarten to have a wee trail that brings in great views of our Loch Long. It is rather close to Arrochar and a wee bit up from where we normally stroll Ardgarten and Loch Long Loop is a 3.5 kilometer...
Iona has been a focal point for Christianity in Scotland since St Columba's arrival here in AD563. In about 1200, Reginald MacDonald of Islay, one of the sons of Somerled, decided to revive old traditions partly lost as a result of Viking raids, and turn...
Wednesday A great day to wake in dreams Dreams from a peaceful sleep whilst day-dreaming throughout A time to relax and day-dream Wednesday a day of dreams Dreams to encourage a life often we suppress our dreams busily on screens and work Wednesday a...
