April 17, 2022
It’s Easter Sunday and some of you will be celebrating the end of Lent with a feast of chocolate having deprived yourself of something for the past forty days. There is much to be said for self-imposed restriction, but sometimes giving up can have surprisingly positive consequences. Martin has been here this week painting the […]
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April 3, 2022
In an effort to amuse the puppy and stop her from barking at mourners milling about at my father-in-law’s wake I take my new fork into the garden to dig in the borders and try to remove all traces of the creeping cinquefoil. The puppy sits on the steps and watches, occasionally picking up a […]
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March 27, 2022
In the park, they’ve had a team working to raise the height of the path at the little stone bridge because it has a tendency to flood and joggers get their expensive trainers wet. This annoyed me and I wasted a good deal of emotional energy complaining to my sister about it at the weekend, […]
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March 20, 2022
How do we deal with the ultimate existential crisis, a fear of dying? What can we do when we can no longer fall back on the tried and tested answer to the majority of anxieties, “don’t worry, it might never happen,” when you know full well that it will? I seem to have been writing […]
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March 13, 2022
What can you do to support people who are feeling sad and worried about the same things that are affecting you? Can we be of much help to someone when we step down into the hole they appear to have fallen into? “I expect everyone is talking about the war,” a client says to me […]
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