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Pregnant Pauses
Pregnant Pauses Today is the Celtic festival of Imbolc. Imbolc meaning 'in the belly' symbolises the pregnancy and production of milk in ewes; is associated with St. Brigid, lighting candles to celebrate the return of the light after a long winter and...
Feeling Stiffness
Feeling Stiffness Do you feel stiff? Joints creak and groan a bit from time to time? What do you make of it?Stiffness runs in my family, mum, uncle, brothers and son so I guess there is a genetic element to it. Plus the older family members will probably have...
Happy Christmas
Wishing you a Very Happy Christmas Wishing you and your family and friends a very Happy Christmas/Solstice whatever celebration name that works for you!I hope you have lots of relaxation and laughter and very little stress and anxiety and are looking forward to...
It’s Spending Time
It's Spending Time Well here we are again; Black Friday leading into the Christmas spending period. We are bombarded with images regarding Christmas; crowds of people around a table, some glamorous, some more homely depending on whose ad it is. Presents that seem...
About Time
About Time I don't know about you; but if I watch or read anything that involves explanations about space/time I lose the plot in about 30 seconds. Even with the lovely Professor Brian Cox (brain the size of a planet) who tries to make everything accessible; for a...
Many Ways to Slice the Pie
Many ways to slice the Pie I am often struck by the fact that many theories that superficially look different are actually saying the same thing.I was talking to a friend yesterday who has just finished a course called Internal Family Systems. This is a way of looking...
Starting New Projects
As part of a general ongoing declutter and reorganisation it has begun to dawn on me that I have an awful lot of ongoing projects. I cannot even say half finished, sometimes box has been opened, said project looks a bit complicated and box gets closed again. My...
Unexpected lessons at the gym
Not wanting to become totally sedentary I decided to join the gym in Chippenham. Stiffness runs in our family and my mum became almost totally de-conditioned. To be fair she hated exercise from childhood; she would exercise if the physio was standing in front of her;...
Finding Your Truth
Being fairly newly retired is proving interesting on a number of fronts. I am sure many of you are also retired and I imagine you may have thought about some of issues I want to talk about. I think I am right in suggesting that we 'get' work, we do something...