….This is a little recollection I wrote at a gathering in Scotland a few years ago…Its quite an open, personal account of some powerful personal elements of my spiritual journey […]

(source: bestukireland.com) I’m sitting here in Cork, Ireland. It’s getting late, but listening to Misty Edwards “Fling Wide” album for the first time in ages, I can’t help but stop […]

This exact week 13 years ago I travelled for the first time to a foreign destination outside of the British Isles, to the Eastern European country of Ukraine. The following […]

Once upon a time, asking for an apple, a blackberry or some pie containing raspberry would have meant a trip to the kitchen, pantry or ‘larder’ to find something fresh […]

It would appear that ‘people power’ and decent common sense is winning the day, at least in one matter, in UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s latest announcement to block online […]

(pic: bbc news ni) Gardener’s love this time of year. Weeding in the sunshine seems to bring those with ‘green fingers’ such evident delight and therapeutic wonder. The weather we […]

IN BIBLICAL times, a scribe was a position of significant authority in both the Roman Empire and the nation of Israel. Scribes were writers who wrote the decrees of those […]

AFTER yet another phenomenal Wimbledon tennis fortnight, which has once again gripped the UK, and indeed the world, today’s men’s final saw the historic victory of Andy Murray over Novak […]

…(Part 2 in this series) Provocative, ‘moi’? Anything with sex in the title is elaborately and immediately going to draw people in, and, might I begin by taunting you (just […]

WALES. Land of language, culture, beautiful countryside, sheep and…er…Tom Jones. Almost exactly eleven months ago, I travelled to the southern end of this small Celtic British country, for what was the very […]

What a week for Northern Ireland. What a week for Enniskillen and County Fermanagh. I wonder when Hugh Maguire and his labourers built Enniskillen Castle (see photo) in the 15th […]

Recent harrowing pictures from the horrendous ongoing situation in Syria cannot help but stir my heart and make me think of a poignant and deeply impacting visit there in summer […]

I am currently sensing the “new dawn” over our land at this present time, and opportunities for change – good change – on the horizon, should we (as the people […]

  In true emerald isle style, what better way to begin this new blog writing experience, than by welcoming you in with a good old cup of tea! Sit down, relax, and […]