I remember the first time I fully understood that some people didn’t have a home. While on holiday on the Costa Brava in northern Spain as a child, we’d taken a day trip to Barcelona. I saw a man asleep on a cardboard box on the pavement. My nine-year-old brain couldn’t fathom out why he […]
Banksy Strikes Again. The Rise Of A Hero Culture.
Banksy has struck again, my friends, with a little piece in honour of the NHS nurses battling through the coronavirus crisis. His latest piece, “Game Changer,” features a young boy discarding his superhero toys in favour of a model NHS nurse. Banksy donated the work to Southampton NHS Hospital to thank the staff for their […]
Ethical Travel. How Slow Can You Go?
In 2004, I set off on what would be my first travelling adventure to wander and wonder at the world we live in. A full year away, travelling on a whim to wherever the wind blew me. No responsibilities, no ties, and definitely no clocks. They say that to travel is the only thing you […]
Mother Earth. The Cycle Of Life Is Rooted In Nature.
The cycle of life is rooted in nature. From the first buds bursting forth through Mother Earth’s fertile skin in the glorious chaos of spring. As we dance our way into summer and the sweet scent of jasmine on the heat of the ocean breeze. When the first leaves of fall carpet the world with […]
What Our Gardens Should Look Like.
If the coronavirus crisis taught us anything, it’s the need to become more self-sufficient. One of the areas where we can do this is to use our gardens to grow our own food. For me, this isn’t a novel idea. While I grew up in a town, I spent my holidays with my grandma on […]
Who Needs Toilet Paper Anyway?
Who would have thought it? One of the greatest disasters in our living history and we all got into a bit of tizz about toilet paper, or lack of it, should I say. The coronavirus hit the world and we experienced a pandemic of toilet paper hoarding. As I watched on in wonder at the […]
Mother Earth Has Spoken. It’s Time To Mend Our Ways.
At the beginning of 2020, like many, I posted a ton of quotes welcoming in the New Year, one of which was “2020 smells like healing, transformation, blessings and success” Little did we know that the healing of the planet and the transformation of humanity would be thrust upon us by a virus that has […]