What do you value??

Many of you who have been following my blog over the last year or so will know that I suffer from depression and anxiety and have overcome an addiction to alcohol, had 4 marriages and have 2 children, 1 of which I don’t have any contact with and recently lost the 2 closest people in

Being creative

I have just done the 1st week of a creative writing course, I don’t really consider myself to be creative but I have a very strong interest in writing. I tend to use the left side of my brain 🧠 🤣, that of course assumes that I have one, so many decisions I have made

Do more of what you love.

I sometimes slip into bouts of depression and everything can become an effort, however I spend time evaluating the things I do in my life, sometimes even overthinking things. These moments and frame of mind often lead to doing nothing or very little and sometimes even things that are detrimental to my health and well-being,

Give me a reason

Good morning / afternoon wherever in the world that you are, from a glorious sunny day in Pembrokeshire West Wales in the UK.I apologise for not writing for some time and as much as I can give you a million and one excuses, I can’t give you a reason for my absence other than to

It’s a wonderful life

I apologise for not blogging too much lately, I am having difficulties syncing the app with the desktop version of WordPress and sometimes it seems that I have a few followers then at other times I don’t have any.Blogging to me though is done for a number of reasons:1) It is quite cathartic.2) It is

Leaving the past behind.

I have just spent a few days back in the home that I lived in when I was an adolescent after moving in with my maternal Aunt and Uncle, this is probably the first of many visits which I will undertake due to the recent parting of my uncle in April of this year.I was

Roots.

When I think about the mighty Oak tree, the first thing I think about believe it or not is what it came from, the smallest of acorns. I think then of the conditions that allowed it to grow, the ground it sits in, nature providing the right amount of sunlight and rain and the roots

The art of communication

I chose this picture because to me it represents the confusion that miscommunication can bring about in any situation.It looks almost like the white noise that you get from a badly tuned in television set, if we see our conversations as being unclear then how can we expect others to understand what we are trying

Belly laughs 😂

I used to sit on my Granddad’s knee and watch ⌚ 📺. One of my favourite programmes was a programmes was a 45 minutes long comedy called Dad’s Army set around the second world war and a group of older people who set up a home guard unit under the direction of the local bank

Childhood sayings.

As we know the two main male influences in my life where my Grandfather and my maternal uncle through marriage. They would often impart their words of wisdom and I would dutifully ignore them, after all ignorance is bliss, NOT always the best philosophy and hindsight is a wonderful thing.Words of wisdom or just ramblings