Month: July 2019

South Africa in chaos -The benefits of reading – being without a mobile

Today turned out to be a very much a 'stay at home' day during which I reflected on the value of reading. This morning, I decided that I wanted peaceful background music. So I switched on my Internet radio and found a channel called 'ABC Piano' which is continually broadcasting pleasant piano music of the classical variety. I find it less disruptive than having the television on. On TV I find ...

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How to deal with feeling a failure

  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill   The topic of failure and what it means has exercised my mind today. I have a feeling I'm going to offer more questions than answers. We are all unique and is means we have a unique set of capacities and abilities. These are developed to varying degrees. Some of our abilities may...

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Afternoon tea and cake – Acker Bilk’s resting place

I noticed that St Mary's church in Compton Dando was offering tea and cake of a Sunday afternoon in summer between 2 PM and 5 PM. As so often happens, the advertisement jumped out of the page at me so without knowing anything of what would happen, off we went. Compton Dando is a niche village, very friendly with a wonderful pub, and one of those whose property values reflect the fact that it is...

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Don’t throw it away – bring it to the Repair Cafe

The Methodists are always very good at community work. This is the second time this event has been held in the Methodist Church at Peasedown St John; the local population seem to be getting the idea. If you have an item that is not working, don't throw it away, but let someone with the necessary expertise, fix it for you. We were a bit outside the system, as we had rescued a very large sunshade,...

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Emerging from the dead-end – Ventusky

This has been a day of thunderstorms, travel delays, buckling rail track, air traffic control failures, and motorway jams. Thank goodness I don't have to go anywhere or be anywhere. My son's friend is going to get married tomorrow and unfortunately rain is due for the very day of the marriage over where they are in Nottinghamshire. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Let's hope they have a marquee...

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closing the door after the horse has bolted – a cautionary tale

I was contacted by phone this morning by a 50-year-old lady 'Anne' who was in a considerable amount of difficulty, a crisis as she described it. She had seen my advertisement in Facebook and 'knew that I did some psychic work'. Anne suffers from electro-sensitivity which means that she cannot bear any Wi-Fi or routers. She did sofa surfing with a number of people but was thrown out 'in an...

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