Making This Your ‘Leap Year’

  You might have heard that this year is a 'leap year'- it's special. But have you ever thought about how you can make this your leap year? This year could be the year you do something you've been wanting to do for the past week, month, even for years. Today, my daughter and I…

The Power of Colour

Like kindness, power can be gained even by small acts. Funnily enough, I've noticed that choosing certain colours throughout my day- whether it be for my outfit, phone wallpaper, or for my meal, can really empower me. Colours evoke my senses and make my day an adventure. On a cloudy day, we look for those brightly coloured vegetables to warm…

An Invitation to Bird Watching

  Birdwatching With Your Eyes Closed, by Simon Barnes was a little gift my daughter gave me one day. Little did we both know that it would have such a big impact on our lives. But it has, giving us both a fantastic opportunity to spend more time together and also to appreciate the wildlife around…

You and Me

Normally, we pay tribute to the one we love with gifts, words or flowers, but today we just thought we'd do it with pictures. Happy Valentines Day Poem Credit: My daughter, one of the wings of Two Wings To Fly.

Tribute to Hands

The airport is one of my favourite places for inspiration. On one notable occasion, sitting in a coffee shop, I noticed a man relaxing at the corner of the cafe, sipping his coffee and knitting a beautiful jumper. The unusual scene before me made me unable to resist approaching him to have a conversation about his interesting…

The Excited Blossom Tree

In front of our window resides the most funny blossom tree. You usually expect a tree to blossom in the spring when all the other trees and flowers wake up and begin to bloom once more. But no- our favourite tree, funnily enough, always has to prove its uniqueness and quirkyness to us by suddenly blossoming-…

Perkins the Christmas Tree

Christmas trees are one of the most adorable and humble creatures on this earth. Year after year, for centuries, we've invited them into our homes, sat in front of them every night, and asked them to give us joy, wellness and fun memories. And indeed they did, and still do, with a silent, loving and great heart. This…

Lost and Found

Chuck Swindoll once said "Life is ten percent of what happens to me and ninety percent how I react to it", and it's a quote that has stuck with me ever since. It is our interpretations which make things, events and actions take the shape we find them in, and what happened one notable day really…

Festivology- modern Technology, Festive-Style

Modern technology offers us so much more enjoyment than simply using Facebook and Twitter to secretly stalk other people. Sure, shadowing the profiles of friends, family, colleagues (the list goes on and on) could be seen as a fun leisure, but there is so much more to discover online. What for me is one of…

Pepper Mania- a Family Thing

Do you have a favourite vegetable? If so, have you ever wondered if your love for that particular veg is shared by anyone in your family, that it might have been passed down in history by your ancestors?  Pepper was one of the vegetables that I excluded from my diet after I gave birth to my children, despite adoring the deliciousness of it,…