There are lots of grass eating animals out there. Some we like eat – we export the tedium and slow digestive process of eating grass to the animal. Cook it up. Saves a lot of time. Some we like to shave and wear the hairy droppings as adornments. Some we like to ride for fun. […]

Closing the kitchen drawer with a push, so it stops just at the closing point,quietly. Taking everything you can carry, closing the door with a curled foot stretched behind you, everything closing quietly.  Holding the world in both hands. A cup of coffee hooked around a finger – it might just hold – A basket […]

The admission is I’m half vegan. I know, you’re thinking – the bottom half, right? Digestion problems The reason I didn’t go full vegan is because of what happened to some of my vegan friends . The problem is that there can be a body reaction to some of the overly processed foods – like […]

We die two deaths. The first is your own. The second is the last person who remembers you. In that in-between time, I know I left something behind. Whose memory are you holding? Whose in-between time changed your life?

I’ve always said that you should talk to your body like Prince Charles-now King Charles – talks to plants. Let it know that’s your body is loved and you’re going to look after it. When i talks to you it’s very limited. Sometimes it just needs to knowmyou care and you’re paying attention. However, sometimes […]

Let’s assume someone passed me the spoon.I can talk, but I am still loathe to post.I’m 13 months in and I feel very fortunate.  I am phrasing it as a positive experience.The more I read, the more I realise as deaths go,we were very lucky.We had no choice as to what happened in many ways, […]

There is a trend I’ve found over life is that every opinion I’ve ever had has turned out to be wrong eventually.Some opinions were definitely right, but circumstances changed and  they became wrong. It’s annoying as those ones are often my favourites.Some opinions were never right in the first place but I thought they were. […]

I was Aged 8 or 9. Over a thousand young children from many different schools around the county were privileged enough to go and see David Attenborough perform. Perform is,perhaps the wrong word, talk is more accurate. He’s not a dancer,a juggler or a clown. Yet I always wondered about him. Will there be a […]

Many people are quick to give others advice,have you noticed? Kissing lots of frogs seems to be the most popular form of relationship advice. My advice Much as I would hate to dismiss anyone’s advice without due consideration, my advice is this : Start with humans. You don’t have to work your way through the […]

You know the person who says they couldn’t give two figs about something? They never have any figs. I don’t have any either but I don’t go on about it. What am I missing? If I was boasting I would start with at least ten figs. You would then say you had 11. Obviously I […]