I don’t know where these months are going, but all we can do is enjoy every day. March At the beginning of the month, Spring was well underway. March was my sister’s birthday, so we all went out to celebrate. – the Turkish meat platter was so good. A couple of friendly robins. I won …
Two years after I went to see the Van Gogh and Britain exhibition, I ventured back to the capital to attend Van Gogh – Alive! This was an exhibition like no other and certainly not one I have experienced in the past. “Prepare to transcend time and space as you accompany Van Gogh on a …
On the same day I walked from Millbank to Leicester Square, I attended the Van Gogh Exhibition at Tate Britain. Taken from the leaflet that I picked up at the gallery – This exhibition is in two parts. The first looks at Van Gogh’s experience in London, the art and literature that caught his attention …
Back in 2019, on a quest to have days out like I used to, I took a train to London to visit Tate Britain and the Van Gogh Exhibition. I took a tube from Euston to Pimlico and made my way to Millbank for some river views. On the opposite side of the road, stands …
Last year, I took another walk around Sywell Country Park, but this time it was all about nature and finding the birds, insects, and flowers. It was June, so it was much greener than before and I could feel the warmth from the sun on my skin. The first feathered friend I saw was this …
A lovely place to walk around is Sywell Country Park near Northampton. The reservoir was built to supply water to the surrounding villages, but now it’s a country park with a gravel walkway around the lake, meadows, forest-like areas with different types of trees, and a variety of habitats for the wildlife that live there. …
With 2023 truly underway, here is a run down of my January and February! I have been wanting to go to Cirque Du Soleil for years and, finally, in January I took a trip to London with my mum and sister to see Kurios at the Royal Albert Hall. Kurios is about an inventor who …
The town centre of Northampton is small when you compare it to the likes of Birmingham and London, but it’s surprisingly full of things to see. I live close to the centre, so I always walk there and, with camera in hand, I find some things that I have never noticed, others that bring back …
Last week, I published ‘Another Day, Another Walk’ and this week I am publishing ‘Something old, something new.’ The same walk a few months apart and this time I walked further and took the long way back home. On my walks around the town, I may take the same or similar photos, but I always …
One of my favourite walks around Northampton takes just over an hour and circles around the town centre and along the River Nene. Leaving home, I walk south along the A508 until I get to St Peters Way. I leave the busy road and walk along the footpath that leads me towards the River Nene …
Last week’s ‘thought of the day’ was – smile. The next thing I got from Thich Nhat Hanh’s book – ‘Peace is every step‘ is – hope. I am a hopeful person. I am someone who hopes that everything will work out in the end. Indeed one of my mantras is that everything DOES work …
A friend of mine told me about a book by Thich Nhat Hanh – Peace is in every Step, so I bought it. I can’t remember if I have read it from start to finish (I plan to (again!)), but I wrote down some things that resonated with me. The first one is – Smile. …