Me to You

Today the journal is 5 years old! Thanks for reading & I hope you continue to enjoy it 🙂 Embedded in the days, there are moments that we can share with others, to help with the practical aspects of life. Optimal began as three separate items that I wrote to help me work through different …

Roaming (Into Nature)

Went wandering... and it was bliss. Sunshine greeted our party, as we visited an old favourite - Baddesley Clinton. Once home to four writers, it is the sort of setting in which you imagine inspiring great things. I'm light on words today, sharing the photos and leaving space for you to enjoy them... I've begun …

Lately…2

Mornadoodle* beautiful people. I'm writing in a brief flash of sunshine, while bursts of sheeting rain and rough winds, "shake the darling buds of May," as Shakespeare wrote. Lately, I've been planting and writing scenes for my latest novel. This week is 'Mock Move' - rummaging in a dozen areas around the home, that if …

Launching Optimal – FREE journal

Today I’m launching OPTIMAL – a journal of growth. This FREE ebook has been useful to me, time and again, so I’m excited to be sharing it with you. The journal has three sections: Part 1 enables the creation and resetting of habits and systems, freeing time and space for what matters most. Part 2 …

Antique Bag

Made from bri-nylon underskirts in the 1960s, this item is testament to the “mend and make do” culture. A lady that knew my grandmother crocheted them. I was happy when Mum gifted it me last year. I’ve known this bag all my life. It carried glass bottles of pop (soda) from the ‘offy’ (off licence …

Lately…

Afternoodle lovelies, how are you? I've had my head down writing or looking up, enjoying the blue sky. It's gorgeous to hear birds chirping. Weather and lifting of restrictions this week, has meant sunshine and more time in the garden. The sweet scent of Spring is like catnip for inspiration. I've been creating a download …

Crafting the New

The contrasts are intense at present, between many things. The elegant design of nature is playing out as it does, with a serenity that is captivating. I watch it through the window and on walks. Global events continue, some of them leaving a path of devastation. I see it in news updates and when catching …

First Steps

In recent weeks, the sentiment behind Buckminster Fuller's quote on reality, has lingered in my mind. How can I create a new model of reality, in order to make the old model obsolete? There are ways the pandemic impacted daily life, that didn't affect me, because I make different choices to many. Some of them …