Despite sneaking in a little blog about blackberries, I did mean what I said about not writing another blog in this series until I had made an appointment with the funeral directors to discuss setting up a pre-paid plan.  All the intentions were right but, as I...

      I promised that I wouldn’t write another blog  until after arranging a certain appointment, but thought that perhaps I would permit myself these gentle observations.  The blackberry (or bramble) crop is incredibly plentiful and forgiving this...

Forgive my silence over recent weeks.  My plan is to continue with my preparations for a really full “life on the back nine” (a golfing analogy), but for a while I was stopped in my tracks.   I was suddenly aware of a large number of friends who were either...

I have been challenged this week about translating ideas into action.  If you are anything like me, you are an ideas person, but without the internal infrastructure or confidence always to translate these ideas into meaningful action. Today I was going to give you a...

  I have decided to write a series of blogs about death... Please hear me out.  It may be stating the obvious, but death is the only absolutely certain thing that happens to every living organism.  And yet, as a species we humans appear ill equipped to cope with...