Getting to this point has been a labour of love, fear, anxiety, worry and exhilaration! I could not have managed this without the...

I see you moonlight peering through that crack in the curtain, and yet I was certain I’d shut you out. With brightness so alluring I find...

I posted a sound video recently on North Berwick News and Views which highlighted the noise being made by groups in the Lodge Grounds. Of...

I entered this short story for a competition recently – for me the joy was having the motivation to complete it. I wasn’t short-listed...

Saturday 4th April was Day 12 of lockdown and Day 1 of the school Easter holidays in Scotland. The plan for my day was to wash the inside...

There isn’t a soul alive who could have predicted the current pandemic and impact of Co-Vid 19 on global humanity. The past 3 months has...

During a recent period of decluttering I put some household items on the North Berwick Facebook page: a dog bed, a wicker log/laundry...

Half term got off to an outstanding start with the arrival of my 2 girls from London last Friday evening. Their train was slightly...

Apologies that the recent blog of similar title was published. I’m not entirely sure what I did but suffice to say the lovely people at...

When Columba 1400 was first offered to me during my PRD process I did not believe I was worthy or that indeed by making such a...

There are times in life when we need to rehearse a deed, action or conversation. It helps us to get into the appropriate frame of mind or...

I realise that my self imposed fortnightly target for writing this blog has slipped but it is all for good reason both personally and...

In the week before Easter I popped into the Cancer Research shop in North Berwick to buy a blue glass tear drop shaped vase which I had...

As we were driving South to Cornwall recently we went through a section of the M5 that had the request ‘Keep apart 2 Chevrons’. For some...

We are unlikely to be on the receiving end of a random act of kindness every day, let alone every week or month. This is largely because...

We’ve all experienced it I’m sure – that moment when almost without warning our heart beats harder, our attention is totally absorbed,...

“Keeping up with the Joneses” is a phrase more recently replaced by Keeping up with the Kardashians, but has a very different social...

About 10 years ago my beloved late sister Emma created an extraordinary plastic relief called Plastic Forever. It was beautiful, white,...

Thank You. Such a simple phrase to utter and yet we ofttime forget to offer our thanks when a colleague has gone that extra mile, a...

The planets in all their beauty have appeared as an ongoing theme over the past few weeks. Going to see Gustav Holsts’s The Planets 360...