March 2025 marks 5 years since our lives were turned upside down. I'd like to think we are now right side up again but on reflection, it feels more like sideways and still spinning. We needed the NHS then, we need it now and we will need it in our times to come. My...
Sometimes you have to write something and at that exact moment, the only reason you write it is for yourself. Sometimes it just pushes out of you, like a birth, a force which will not be contained. And then when you see the words scribbled out like that, you see what...
When you turn around and find yourself lost Somehow wandered too far outward or too far inward to places dark and tangled having roamed so far out or been stuck, curled up, frightened in one of the many corners of the world. When things have turned sour and you find...
Back along I lived among the fields. In that first lockdown when we all of a sudden felt obliged to take a walk a day whether we wanted to or not. Those days were spring days. But also troubled days and so I found myself taking something to the fields. I came to...
The year came in like a rolling tide, in pounding waves that would not subside. So much so we could not fight it or hold it back. All we could actually do in the end was to take the surest and firmest position and stand resolutely in the sinking sand beneath our feet,...
There is something about things that are airborne that are quite captivating. Natural things like birds and clouds. And us-made things like kites, hot air balloons and fireworks. The wind is in charge up there. Up there, where we have little power and can only send up...