What is a community?

What is a community? I saw an article recently which questioned the community I live in. The woman who wrote it had lived in my town in her childhood (many decades ago) and had recently visited in the guise of promoting a book she had written, a book based here. She...

Guest blog – #3 The Storm Breaks

Washing clean the past but opening up a way into what new future?  I survived that meeting and walked out, then immediately had to run to the toilets and be sick. This has never happened to me before, or since.   At the start of this tale, I said I was...

Guest blog #2 A welcome change….

BLOG – Part Two A welcome change, which led from bad to worse, not better Eventually, we started to return to the office part-time and what an absolute delight that was… …finally, I was able to get to know my colleagues properly and that was also when some...

Guest Blog – Building storm clouds on the horizon

BLOG – Part One Hi, I’m Susan and, over the past year, I’ve navigated some of the toughest professional challenges I’ve ever had to face. It actually started several years previously and looking back the red flags were there, clear as day, but I...

Finding the joy of midlife through the promise of spring🌷🪻

I love this time of year, as the chill of winter slowly fades and we finally see the first blossoms of spring, I feel a unique sense of opportunity in the air. Spring gives me the feeling of promise, what will the warmer weather bring? (apart from chronic hay fever...