Today I have been hugging a tree. I was wandering round a small park in Bewdley, Worcestershire, and was 'accosted' by a beautiful old tree. Its trunk was clad in a brightly-coloured knitted waistcoat! There was a hand-embroidered message on the woolly ‘waistcoat’, “Please Feel Free to Hug Me” . How could I resist? I …
Follow Grandma on a SHEN Retreat
Going on a SHEN Retreat . “You’re going on a retreat?” “What on earth is SHEN? “ “Is it Chinese?” “Do they stick needles in you?” “Is it Massage?” “Ooh!….yes! - What do you mean you keep your clothes on?” “Why?” I blame it all on PMR.(Polymyalgia Rheumatica). For those of …
Food Fighting in Deepest Oxfordshire
The invitation was quite specific ’You are invited to a May Day Holiday Food Fight. Bring your swimming goggles’. In all my sheltered decades I have never before been invited to a food fight. and when my daughter suggested I might just want to sit and watch I decided, no, I actually wanted to take …