It’s strange what you miss when you’re otherwise occupied. Caught up in worries, mind overloaded. You go for a walk by the river to try to relax, but still the mind is wandering and it’s hard to focus. You think to yourself, “Where are the signs of spring.” But as much as you look, you can’t see a single bud or...
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Dog Rose Petals
Our garden has several wild dog roses (Rosa Canina). There are fields and a farm next door, so the roses sit among the wild honeysuckle, elder and bramble in the hedgerow. To collect the petals I took a walk along the hedgerow with a bowl and touched each rose that was wide open and had lost half its petals and knocked...
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“Beginnings” is a good theme for spring. What better beginning is there this year than the delightful spring we’re having. So, in this first blog, and as an introduction, I thought I’d talk about our adventures over the years living rural in Ireland and the Netherlands during spring. Here in the rainy west of Ireland we’ve had a very mild winter....
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