Manchester. This where it all began. My journey. It was here. It was along these streets in the long shadowed days when the trees were greener and the buildings were fewer and the summers were longer and sweeter, and there was a small house on a blossom filled avenue, that my parents had bravely bought [...]

Norway is an amazing place. It’s rural and sophisticated. It’s land and water. The coastline is like the edge of a pancake all crisp and curly. We have come to have good friends in Norway. Friends we can fish with and sit by the side of a Fiord with. Friends who understand the long haul [...]

To stand. Not to stand still . But to stand active ,alert ready to fight. To stand to attention . To stand straight ,not leaning on anything or anyone. To stand though the wind of change and challenge blows. To stand sure, of the foundation rock your feet are placed on . To stand still, [...]

Here’s a picture I took of a dandelion.

Hands and voices. I love hands and voices. I really remember peoples hands and voices. One of the first things that atrracted me to my husband was his voice so when he is away the echo of his voice travels with me till he returns With our children the most exciting thing for me was [...]

Grief is a tide that ebbs and flows in the beat of the heart . Sometimes it crashes down and overwhelms and pushes your feet from under you and leaves you frantically gasping for air. Sometimes it trickles around your toes ,freezing your whole body and making you stand frighteningly still . . You can [...]

This should be read with the song MARRY ME by train in the back ground. I met him when I was just 15 , I had been dancing and skipping and singing my way through childhood while he had been travelling and thinking and talking his way to becoming a teenager . He entered my [...]

Returning to a place three times I called home. I come in over the snakepass. Green with all rain this place has. The light is particular here. Clear and heavy . I follow the Manchester road into our old spaces . It feels like wearing a familiar warm woolen winter coat, where you find left [...]

On Sunday Mike and I visited 3 churches in three different towns in Scotland. Each one was different but the same. I found the same Faith the same hope the same God. Each one had a faith filled and faithful vicar. Each one firmly believed that communities change through a Christian presence commitment to the area [...]

So we are off . The bags are packed with one of every type of clothing , the tickets are secured and our minds are beginning to drift to far away places and to the books we will read together . There is something amazing and wonderful about being able to spend 3 months with [...]