Posted in Art, Change, Home, Personal Growth, Skills, Thoughts, Time, achievement, families, goals, tagged goals, Ideas, taske on November 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Six months ago, I wrote a blog about what I hoped would be my goals for the next six months and whether I had achieved or stuck to them. I wanted to simply look back and recap on what they were and the results.
I grew some lettuce and planted some onions and carrots. The lettuce was [...]
Posted in Art, Skills, Thoughts, Women, achievement, tagged Flowers, Funeral, Interest, Skill, wreath on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I thoroughtly enjoyed creating the pictured floral wreath for a funeral tomorrow. It felt pleasing to have not lost my touch since my floristy training over 10 yrs ago. There is not much time to do this kind of work very often.
I thought back to my days as a florist student in the shop as [...]
Posted in Art, Thoughts, Time, Writing, tagged Easter, Gardens, Nature, Poetry on April 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh, daffodil and bells.
The garden blooms and swells,
With new buds, a new life,
The birds are flying,
as high as kites.
Oh Easter, rejoice now rejoice.
The birds sing in chorus
winds whisper a love song,
of new and old tales,
young lovers take hands
and walk along the Easter dawn.
Be fresh in our hearts,
on Easter tide,
of noon and sun,
and joy with pain.
Along the [...]
Posted in Art, Learning, Music, Religion, Skills, Thoughts, Time, Writing, achievement, tagged Books, British Library, Euston Rd, History, Learning, London, ModernBuilding, Museum, Outing, Visit on October 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From its outside appearance, from the road, the British Library could almost be mistaken for a red brick supermarket, small un-assuming and rather plain building, sitting next to St Pancras railway station. You entre the main entrance and you not sure what to expect next. And then, much to your surprise, you realise you have only just touched the [...]
Posted in Art, Music, Thoughts, tagged Beauty, Believes, Betty Thatcher, Drama, Emotion, Fairy Tales, Female Vocalist, Hope, Love, Lyrics, Melody, Mythical Creature, Ocean Gypsy, Original Renaissance Song, Poetry, Sea, Sound, You Tube on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Before you might listen to this youTube recording, You need to read my previous blog, (Musical Journey, one). Have just found this on YouTube and had to include it on here. This song is one of my all time favourites by the Classical Rock group Renaissance. However, it is not them that is [...]
Posted in Art, Music, Thoughts, tagged Azure D'or, Betty Thatcher, Classical Rock, Folk, Friend, Group, Jan 30th, Love, Michael Dunford, Musical Journey, Opera, Progressive, Renaissance, Song, Winter Tree on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On the 30th January 1981, I sat down to the dining room table to commence my school homework. At that time I was in Sixth form, and to drown the TV from my ears, I placed my headphones to my radio-cassette, given as a recent Christmas present, upon my ears. I was [...]
Posted in Art, Learning, Personal Growth, Relationships, Skills, Thoughts, goals, tagged Enjoyment, Hobby, Image, Love, Macro, Pastime, Photgraphy, Photos, Pictures, Sight, Time, watch on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Continuing my tale of why I love certain things, today I am going to share with you why I love taking pictures.
Photography is still fairly new to me, having been taking pictures for just over a year. I have read on flicker-where I hold my own photostream, the most amazing and crafted reasons why people take [...]
Posted in Art, Change, Commitment, Learning, Personal Growth, Thoughts, goals, tagged Love, Add new tag, Flowers, Floristry, Teaching on April 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I have loved flowers for most of my life.
Do you choose your path, or is it chosen for you?
I never thought in a million years that I would ever take up the art of floristry but it happened. After my daughter was born, I saw an advert in the local newspaper advertising, through Adult Education, [...]
Posted in Art, Change, Debate, Health, Human Rights, Liberation, Men, Modern society, Relationships, Religion, Role of women, Thoughts, Women, Writing, families, sex, tagged Adultery, Afghanistan, Asne Seierstad, Books, Burka, Crime, Domestic, Family, fidelity, Home, Honour, lives, Marriage, Non-fiction, Novel, oppression, Punishment, Review, Stoning, The BooksellerOf Kabul on February 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A review of the book The bookseller of Kabul,
by Asne Seierstad.
I would like to acknowledge athinkingmans own blog on this book, and am grateful for his review in bringing this work to life and to my knowledge of it.
As soon as I had discovered this books existence, I knew this was the next read for me, [...]
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