Saturday 14 September 2013

Opportunities for Spreading Joy! ......an experiment....

While in London a few weeks ago I recieved a parking ticket, which I appealed as I felt I had a good case, I hadn't knowingly or diliberately flaunted the parking rules or restrictions and apart from anything else felt it was unjust. The lines where I'd parked had almost completely worn away making it very difficult for someone like myself not familiar to the area to be fully aware of where the bay started and stopped and if at all the rule was still in operation, and nowhere on the sign did it say "please park within the faintly marked barely visable bays".  Further along the road the lines were non exsistant where the road had been patched, I wrote in my appeal letter that I felt it is the councils duty to keep the lines clearly painted in and to make sure signage is clear if they are to enforce this rule. However my appeal fell on the deaf ears of Gina Cole and was declined. So I felt a little upset largely because there are many ways too numerous to mention here that I could put thirty pounds to better use.
I decided that the only thing I could do was turn it into something positive, creative and fun for myself, thereby extracting any of the poisonous vitriole that wanted to spew forth from my bitter tongue at the injustice of it all. So this is what will arrive on the desk of the parking civil servant on Monday Morning, I wish I could've installed a little video camera that would start recording when he or she opens the box.





The cheque is inside this folded letter which is full of stars!!!!




The letter reads!



Wednesday 5 June 2013

Magnificent Sentinels of Beech Trees!


At this time of year especially as I turn into the driveway at Hayford and cross the threshold that leads to home I feel as if I cross over into a magical kingdom guarded by tall and proud Beech trees lining the driveway like magnificent sentinels, while at their feet sentries of ferns welcome me home with a silent fanfare of iridescent green waving to a symphony of birdsong.








Usually as I walk up the driveway Walt Whitman or Rabindranath Tagore poems spring to mind, but this morning my task was of recording this beautiful place I've called home for over fifteen years, as I prepare to move I decided to film the house and the garden and the land as a precious visual reminder. And the poem that came to mind this morning was......Emily Dickenson, 'I Dwell in Possibilty' because that's what I have to keep reminding myself so that I can let go of my attatchment to here and her poem helps me do that...

I dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –

Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –

Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –



Sunday 20 January 2013

Forever Seeking The Light.........


I havn't blogged in a while and thought I must start blogging again in 2013........before New Year I wanted to make a banner and never got around to it, but today I thought to myself...it's not too late even if it were June it's still 2013 so I'll make my banner...all be it 3 weeks late. I wasn't sure what I was going to do with it once I'd made it but during the making I thought it'd be nice to hang it in the trees and photograph it, typically it took longer than I thought so by the time I'd finished I was losing the light.....however I didn't give up and photographed it anyway...there were many photo's but i've just posted one here.........this will be my mantra for 2013.......! This year my daughter graduates university and my sister gets married.......and I have several plans up my sleeve!




I took a few candle lit ones too...........gathering light!


So for 2013 my step daughter Holly bought me this book for christmas and I've started filling it.....so far I will be visiting Berlin, Buenes Aires, Brooklyn, Italy......meeting Bob Dylan, doing a drawing a day, having a pop up shop, exhibition, learning a language....learning an instrument....I'm going to be qiute busy!



Learning to sail.....although I'll probably learn in a smaller boat than this to start......


Get a camper van........


Have adventures!!!!!!!