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I thought this morning was going to be one of those busy types of mornings. I needed to do a little shopping, get things ready for my daughter's arrival, and for a visitor coming midday. Somehow, a bit of work needed to be squeezed in while a chap is trying to find the time to have a nice breakfast. Despite this, I found myself driving rather slowly, taking it easy, being passed by others with places to be and things to do. I went to the superstore feeling completely unhurrie

I was driving my son to school this morning when I turned a corner to come face-to-face with a black and white cat in the road. For a moment, it didn’t know what to do, and then decided that rather than turning left, needing only a short distance to jump to the safety of a field, it ran across the full length of the road to the other side. This got me thinking about how human life confuses nature, and I had a chat with my boy about it, in a fun kind of way. Cats don't underst

I’m sitting outside my house typing away to capture this lovely moment. There’s a swirling spring breeze circling where I sit, that only has softness to it. I rather like that. It’s the sort of wind that makes me want to stay where I am, to enjoy it. Bees are buzzing around me as a woodpecker flies up to the apple tree. As I feel the gentle wind touch the right side of my face, I turn to see a Cabbage White butterfly flittering through the bushes. I notice some new flowers ov

I was all set to relax a little and close up the laptop, but then my eye caught sight of a black squirrel that I sometimes see in the garden. It was looking through the window at me and then suddenly leapt to another branch of an apple tree. And I noticed behind it, the cherry trees were coming into bloom. I love this time of year! When I first moved here, one of my neighbours came into my garden and started pointing at the trees, saying, "Well, there’s an old apple tree, and

Suppose what is happening right now is something you don’t like. Yesterday, I was walking from the cinema with my two kids. There was a Ford Focus car on the walkway. It was black and shiny and was a little in the way. Not that it was annoying. It was meant to be there, with a price in its window, for all those who found themselves pootling out of MediaMarkt store having bought a set of AA batteries, and suddenly realising they have an extra thirty thousand euros to spend, an

I was driving my son to school this morning, and to the left is a forested area that has had a lot of coppicing recently, and the trees are quite sparse. Standing in a clearing was a beautiful little cherry tree filled with white blossoms. The ones in my garden have only just come into flower, so they aren’t quite open yet. But… I had the sudden inspiration to go for a walk and search for cherry trees in bloom. I liked that. A little idea. It didn’t have any troubling words i