Windflowers

The emperor of Rome, in the third century, Severus was returning from an eastern expedition, to celebrate with extensive military games, t...

Many people are in an angry, isolated and misunderstood state. Simple things that could have been resolved in a chat across a garden fe...

The plague has struck humanity repeatedly over our long history. An early mention of the plague occurs in 1 Samuel, in the old Testament, w...

There are many reasons to fast. Several organisations have claimed  extraordinary  health benefits for fasting. I enjoyed this talk on the ...

We had just bought our first house. It was a small gate lodge with a huge garden. It even had its own little forest in the corner. The ...

Mum in Canada with my brothers.  My favourite photograph of the three of them! The only thing I ever won in competition (it was a fa...

They seemed a breed apart. Disengaged from a normal life and embroiled in a fantasy existence that floated unanchored by mortgages, de...