Hi higher horizons!

Three men jump on big bouncing balls that catapult across the stage engaging us in their world. Like a ball bearing flying across a pinball machine our eyes dart over the stage. The relaxed gesture of the men that are not involved in the dare devil stunt taking place centre stage draw as much attention […]
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Silent hands make light work

Watching the late Hans Josephson work in his studio silently places the mind into a blissful state of quiet.  His work is contained in the Swiss La Congiunta museum, in Giornico, which is devoted to his work.  The film that records his studio work offers admirable meditation from a life that has gracefully dealt with […]
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Trip the light fantastic

  The first time I got paid to do what I love, namely entertain, was my best job ever.  I can see my first pay packet today and remember staring at it in disbelief that I was being given money to be on stage, singing and dancing all day at a UK entertainment resort.  I […]
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Sunshine Smiles Day

I was so thrilled to wake up to a bright shining award from a brilliant blogger, Upasna.  The message of Upasna’s blog is ‘Live out loud’ which rings through the posts you can read here.  A great interpretation of life through the writing is on offer and I love the description of Upasna as ‘magnetic […]
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Liebster Award

A man came into the hotel I was staying in and said I can make you better.  For some reason a bug had laid everyone low and we were all in the lobby feeling weak with sickness.  He gave us a brown liquid.  We had no idea what it was.  You can imagine how it […]
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I am honoured to accept ‘Field of Flowers’

With grey skies solidly standing above the South England for weeks upon end these flowers are received with much joy. Beautiful blogs that I have enjoyed from my Reader have lifted spirits upwards from the boggy earth the floods are creating.  Reading them takes the mind off the fact that some people are watching water […]
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Ghost Forest

Walking home, jilted, one late summer’s night it is a delight to stumble upon these tree stumps from Brazil and further a field.  The roots carve into each other and infinitely bend into twisted curves providing a mesmering road to nowhere for the eyes to follow.   The chap I thought was more than a […]
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blackberry is a gooseberry

My neighbour has a holiday cottage full of the outdoors type.  They are frequently lost on our winding roads but I hear them coming up the lane from random chatter on their mobile phones.  Right now I have my window open. to catch what drifts in on the breeze. I’m walking my way to work […]
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A lighter enlightenment

Photograph taken by Cheri Lucas Rowlands Light bounces of each brick to defy the emptiness of the tunnel in the photograph.   This image could work in a gallery as it has depth beyond the bricks and mortar.  It reminds me of the colonnades outside the Uffizi where I stood in the rain waiting to see […]
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A Shot into the Light from Victoriana

(to be read amongst friends) Anna-  She’s here. Bess-  She’s not here. She doesn’t want to be here! It’s a day off from the kitchens of Audley End. Anna-  Of course she’s here. It’s a hide and seek game silly! We have to look harder. Bess-  She’s never seen this garden before. She’s new to […]
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