Blogs from Whitchurch, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes . Don't resist them - let reality be reality . My saying of the morning ended with the words Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Quite an interesting thought from Lao Tzu. One of the favourites churned out in my calendar at least half a dozen times a year . Lao Tzu not the saying . I guess driving to Whitchurch I must have churned up that saying , digested it , wondered if it were true and changed it slightly here and there to something I could relate to . The journey to Whitchurch was as always fairly uneventful apart from forgetting that in England I can still drive in residential areas at 30mph. That felt strangely exhilerating after the snail like ... read more

"I am up and waiting " That was the plaintive cry from Sion as dawn broke on a cool Tuesday morning . I was a little worried as he had obviously heard me arranging a trip out and assumed that he was coming along too. He would have a long wait as I had the shopping to do first and then was off to visit daughter to view her front garden and then would meet a friend . This time though it was not going to be Woolly Mammoth and his carer Jo. Sion always knew that sometime during the year when Jo was not working that we would go out and spend a few hours in Shrewsbury or somewhere equally interesting . He could catch up with Woolly and his travels and as he would ... read more

It is about Day 700 of Covid restrictions and thankfully not many more of them left. Nearly two years have gone by and we have had enough . There are more problems in the world far worse than a Covid at the moment . Time to move on and get on with life . I have not found many half decent sayings on my calendar but todays was pretty poignant. Jiddu Krisnamurti came out with a good one " One is never afraid of the unknown , one is afraid of the known coming to an end " How true that is. Covid restrictions coming to an end. How will that affect us in the future? What will happen when we find ourselves abroad for the first time in two years ? Who knows? The unknown ... read more

Today was a day of change . The first day that we had the opportunity to drive across the border from Wales into England . The sun was shining it felt a little as if we were on holiday. We headed over the border and arrived in the small village of Calverhall and a walk with my daughter . I was looking foward to that walk . . It would make a change to walk somewhere different to Wingerworth or Bangor on Dee. It would be good to walk with someone rather than walk alone. We set off from Calverhall . A small rural village with an ancient history going back to the Domesday book. We walked past the Old Jack Pub and headed towards the village library which was housed inside a lyche gate . ... read more

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centred by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate" So wrote Zhuangzi a Daoist sage and author. Never heard of him . Well neither had we . Never heard of his philosophies either . We know them now though. Our life seems to be following that pattern. Since we came home we are trying to flow with whatever comes our way. We are trying not to worry about Glenns mums house which is taking some time to sell. Phone calls and messages fly by and nothing seems to happen. It is 8 weeks now since an offer was put in . To complicate things even further we had no -one asking to view our home. Selling houses is a painful process. One ... read more