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“Look at the size of that bee!” That was my friend Brendan the other day as a wee fat bumblebee buzzed past his window. I like bumblebees. They make me smile. There they flit, all fat and furry and fuzzy, with their striped, cheerful bellies. Onwards and upwards they go full tilt to the breeze,
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There’s a market stall here in Amsterdam every Saturday that specialises in mushrooms. That is all they sell. To walk past it is quite an experience, all those delicate, strangely shaped fungi laid out in their baskets, the earthy smells of forest and moss, of leaves and decay. It’s a dangerous smell, that entices and
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It’s easy to leave home.To leave the place of your birth. To run from it, and start again. It’s easy to leave behind family, history, expectations, constraints, class, poverty, all those restrictions on your life laid out for you from the start. Far better to go. To start afresh in some place where they don’t
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There’s an old Scottish saying goes something like this: “Dinnae cast a cloot until May’s oot” For those of you not of a Scots persuasion, it basically means don’t even think of discarding one thread of clothing until it’s at least June. Wise words. I learned them from my Granny. The past few weeks we
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“It is love which converts hearts and gives peace to all humanity, which today seems so lost and dominated by the power of evil selfishness and fear…..” Do you disagree with this statement? None of us can. Whatever your religious (or non-religious) persuasion, there’s a universal truth here that simply cannot be denied. They are
