Thought for the Month

Love is all around! Well, it is most the time, but we are all very aware of it in February. Love is a very strange but wonderful emotion. It must be the only entity that the more of it that you use the more there is of it. When two people fall in love they are...

Although it is only January I am going away with my friends, for a few days, to Lindisfarne. We have been there a couple of times before. It is one of our favourite places. One of the things I am planning is to walk across the Pilgrim Way preferably barefoot, but I...

The trees have lost their leaves. Winter is coming now! There is something about winter that is lovely. There is a comfortable feeling about sitting in front of a fire snuggled up in big sweaters or wrapped in a rug whilst watching old familiar films on the...

A lot of you will know that reading is a passion of mine. I would read all the time given the opportunity and I read anything, cornflake boxes, notices pinned up anywhere, instructions on the back of boxes as well as books. One of the added delights of reading is...

I am writing this just a couple of days after the sad death of our Monarch, Queen Elizabeth11, although by the time you are reading this life will have moved on and the funeral will have taken place and our new Monarch, King Charles111, will be established. Queen...

I was talking to someone the other day and we were commenting on how hard it is to ask for help. Most of us if not all of us have helped someone else and really thought little of it. Some taller people (not me) will get stuff off the higher shelves in supermarkets...

During the summer months the television channels seem to only have repeats, so I have been finding books to read. I would like you to believe that I have been improving my mind and reading hefty tomes of intelligent literature, but I am afraid that would be misleading...

Some of you will have guessed by now that I love nature and gardens. I mostly garden without gloves on because I like to feel the soil. Today I went to Whisby Garden Centre and spent a lovely time wandering round looking at all the plants. This year everything seems...

What a month this is going to be. As I write there are activities being organised in every town and village to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s platinum jubilee. It looks like we can all have a wonderful time at any number of parties and events. It is always special...

What a lovely time of year this is. We have got all the lovely spring flowers, daffodil, tulips, bluebells, grape hyacinths etc and the trees are in blossom hoping that we don’t get a late frost to spoil them. As I look out my kitchen window, I can see the birds...