• 2019

    Once again the calendar has snuck up on me unannounced and I needed to be reminded that it is newsletter time. Too much daydreaming for me. I am indeed fortunate to have Claire and Sam to keep me on track. But who wouldn’t be tempted to daydream in this beautiful valley? The green rolling hills, Read More   |  

  • 2018

    It’s mid-winter at Mount Mary as I write this, though not so bleak as in Christina Rosetti’s poem of 1872. The first verse will forever be in my mind and I wrote it down here, edit free, without reference to Wikipedia or any other form of knowledge fast food. I was a keen chorister as Read More   |  

  • 2017

    This is my twelfth newsletter in a series of forty, or thereabouts, and this year perhaps more than ever, I have found myself looking back at the journey so far and wondering about the future possibilities. This has been a cathartic, momentous and thought-provoking exercise for me. Trying to capture all the significant happenings of Read More   |