Spring in My Steps
Recovery is a frustrating business with lots of twists and turns. Today a bumblebee helped me to navigate a corner.
Healing Through Growing Blog
Baby Steps Towards Recovery
Should I be resting or moving? Learning how to take baby steps and manage frustration is a huge challenge in the early stages of recovery or after a relapse. Sowing a few seeds is a manageable activity that gives a sense of achievement and anticipation.
The Lockdown Blues
For some, lockdown means isolation and loneliness, for others the relentlessness of living in close quarters with other people. Thank God for my garden and the freedom it gives me to choose between isolation and companionship.
Healing my Inner Library
OK, so this has nothing to do with the natural world and growing, it is all about the inner world and healing the damage that fibromyalgia et al do to your mind and mental capacities. Sometimes when you sit down to write surprising things happen.
A Single Rose can be my Garden
When dark wet days and miserable headlines engulf you in worries about the future, nature has a knack of catching your attention and providing some perspective.
A Sloe Walk Down Memory Lane
A canal-side walk on a sunny October day brings me close to my Nan and childhood fantasies around her illicit brewing habits.
Into the Woods
The recovery ‘journey’ may be a cliché, but there are few better ways of understanding the ups and downs, the twists and turns, involved in finding one’s way back to full health. The journey is a hard one, but sometimes the most difficult part is not looking too far ahead, learning to focus on the path under your feet and to find companions to share the highs and lows along the way.
A Corsage of Runner Beans
There's a difference between learning about recovery and understanding. Sometimes it takes a set-back to help the penny drop and grasp what being guided by your body really means.
Cocooned
Every journey to recovery has its setbacks, unbearable times of slipping backwards when it's hard to keep faith and hope alive.
Time to Walk
A weekly walk in the woods brings a welcome respite, perspective and calm in a crazy world.
Finding Calm in the Storm
Against apocalyptic headlines, my garden is a refuge and source of perspective and solace.
Cold May Gardeners
Gardening folklore is an endless source of fascination. Do you know who the Cold Gardeners are and why they matter in May?
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All of the photos that accompany my blogs are my own. I find that taking a camera out with me helps me to notice so much more of the beauty and detail of the world around me. When I've taken a photo I try to stop and watch whatever I've been snapping, so I appreciate it in real life and not just through the lens.