Use and Misuse

I’m talking about things, useful things that have been invented by curious constructive endeavours. In particular at the moment, electronic communication devices, those things we use, and misuse, daily. I’m not adding abuse, to the use misuse, though it exists too, whether I mean someone in frustration throwing their device out the window, or someone … More Use and Misuse

Greetings

Just to record a walk taken yesterday, to Ballyheirnan beach in Fanad, Donegal. I had driven over from Holywood, my sister’s home near Belfast, borrowing her car while she is off to spend Christmas with her family. I am here to visit, a first time after many years. Forty fifty years ago when we were … More Greetings

An up-and-down year

If you read my blog, you will know already what the ups and downs have been. I cannot write a Christmas/ end of year letter. Briefly, big ups, February holiday in Seville, search the blog and be prepared for lots of photos of a wonderful city, so good for walking. April, visit to Edinburgh of … More An up-and-down year

November walking

I call this post November walking because it is November and I wish I was walking. But, in October I took a long walk and overdid the stress by walking down the pathway beside the water of Leith that starts off behind the Modern Art Gallery. Then I got tired, having previously walked over to … More November walking

Mycelium, Fungi, Autumn

We had been talking together about that wonderful book: Entangled Life, by Rupert Sheldrake. There is so much there, as well as information about mycelium – that’s the mass of hyphae that form the vegetative part of a fungus. And a hypha is one of the threadlike elements that form mycelium (according to the online … More Mycelium, Fungi, Autumn

September Season

After an Edinburgh August, which gave us warmer weather than we are used to, and the usual festival activities that arouse very mixed feelings, I hoped for a return to routine. August here is exciting, with stimulating talks at the book festival as well as a town given over to theatre, music and dance, but, … More September Season