On my way to Wales...

Andrew and I've been married for four years - that seems like an age - but not long - all at the same time. It is funny thinking about how life expands with love.




One of my favourite ladies in the world died last weekend. Her name was Betty Singleton, and she was marvelous. A genteel yet no-nonsense woman, who'd worked on planes during the war, married a sailor who left on duty for four years after they'd been married a month, who remembered when Manchester had gotten gas lighting inside homes, and lived from age seven to eighty seven in the same house. She loved travelling and went on her own when her husband was too afraid to fly - she went all over Europe and never missed the opportunity to travel. I used to love visiting her, and listening to her stories. May her memory be eternal.

Thought I should just update quickly - back from IJ&TKofTCS.. and found it a little sad. I want to watch the other ones now, to remind myself of why I like them so much. I'm glad that Indie stuck with his first love though :-)

I've also just finished packing my books to leave for a week away staying at Ffalyd-y-Brenin in Wales, one of my favourite places in the world (I think it's linked on the side under beautiful space). I'm taking a lot of books - in the hope that it will inspire me to write, read and think. Some of them are books I've been meaning to read for an age - and others are ones that I HAVE to read... There's a lot of work to do - but am not sure how much I'll get done.


I've been thinking about a lot of things these last days - how integrity forms itself. The Sermon on the Mount. What the attraction of postmodernism is. How capitalism and consumerism infiltrates almost everything. The danger of e-mail (especially for someone hot-tempered and impetuous)and how much easier it is to isolate yourself behind various pieces of technology.

The allotment is wonderful right now- beginning to ooze with life - some orderly, some less so. I planted Nasturtiums at home everywhere I could and they are all coming up - I love plants that you can eat from stem to flower! Our Roses in the garden are also all blooming and smell beautiful.