October Workshop - Saturday 23rd 2010

The next available workshop will take place on Saturday 23rd October at my consulting rooms in Weston-super-Mare. Sacred Geometry with Dowsing - Rods & Pendulums @ £35 including eBook and certificate with CPD points.  Maximum of 6 participants. 

 See http://www.adayofenlightenment.com  for further details and online booking

Free Festival of Light 

          Saturday  11th December 2010

Berries in my garden

This year my garden has been extremely productive. All berries on shrubs plus black red and white currants, raspberries, strawberries have been plentiful.  My big apple tree has produced the biggest and most beautiful apples in my 18 years here, they don't keep so I've bee kept busy pre-paring and stewing them with sultanas and lots of cinnamon and freezing.  One of my cob nut trees has excelled itself.   I had a new driveway put in many years ago and I was all set to dig out and dispose of this tree until I realised that it had a few nuts on it, so I replanted instead.  Each year it provided enough nuts for the field mice to store and feast on.  But this year!!!  There have been many thousands of nuts; trouble is that it overhangs the pavement on the other side of my boundary wall. 

One day I opened the gate to go cycling and there was a carpet of nuts so I had to go back in and get a brush to sweep them in so I could pick them up later.  The pavement outside is a thoroughfare for the two schools in this road and sadly most would get smashed by feet and pushchairs.  Sadly no one seemed interested in gathering any for their own use or those huge red apples, a few of which also fell to the pavement, so I gathered these as well.  Some used them as footballs or had fun jumping on them, this felt very strange to me but a sign of our time I suppose. As a child I was brought up on a market garden in a valley, at the top end the road was higher than the garden and large fruit trees also overhung the boundary wall.  In those days no fruit was wasted as people would actually come along and nick the apples, plums and pears off the trees that they could reach.  This was not long after the end of World War 11 when food was much more precious.

I now have many bowls and baskets filled with nuts which I will make good use of and freezers full of stewed apple for the year ahead.  Funny thing is that one of my greyhounds would wait for me to take outer husk off the nuts for me to give him some.  However he has now discovered that he can just help himself from outside and has a little snack now and again and leaves all the shells in his bed!  When I first had him 5 years ago he would gorge on fallen unripe apples, he would eat anything and everything, but he now leaves them alone, didn't do his digestive and eliminative systems much good.  The nuts, apples and berries are coming to the end but it has truly been a bumper year. There are plenty left on the shrubs for the birds this winter and I always leave a few nuts for the mice and occasional squirrel. I believe that fruit and nuts are the easiest crops to grow as they require so little attention, unlike vegetables.  I grow lots of herbs as well but these do require attention in various ways.  My garden is managed organically and I work with the moon phases - see the section on the moon.

I would just like to mention my thoughts on Work, Rest & Play.  A few years ago someone mentioned a formula that felt so right to me - each day to be balanced would be divided into 8 hours work, 8 hours sleep and 8 hours play.  This feels so right to me in these days of stresses and anxiety.  Too much of any of the above would tip us out of balance.  We all need sleep; work is good especially if you are doing what you love.  I so believe that life is too short to be working at anything you hate, but so many seem to.  Money is often mentioned and of course we all need to pay the bills.

 I constantly look at my life balance, for me this has changed through the years and I now feel that I do have a good balance.  When I sleep, I sleep but do have an occasional disturbed night. Sometimes because I've eaten too late which is entirely my fault? And others when my youngest comes in with a dozen mates at 4 or 5 am and decide to skateboard outside my bedroom window, bless them!  OK that only happened once but I'm not a happy bunny when I don't get my sleep that is why they didn't do that one again!!

In the past I've worked all the hours I had because I do love what I do but I've had to realise that I must also do something just for me.  Therefore I have just managed to focus on the work I really want to do - The Festival of Light now 4 times a year, I love to meet people.  Iridology, Shamanic Healing and workshops in Glastonbury every month, I am fascinated by people's life stories.  Writing new eCourses, I wish to really focus on this as I love to see people progress and wish to spend more time on the support I can give.

Now the play, I want more time to be outside in my garden and in Nature.  More time to learn new techniques for my jewellery making.  More time to be creative, I've got a small kiln to play with glass for my jewellery but haven't actually used it yet.  I'm booked in to learn how to do some enamelling next week as well.  More time to clean my home (yes really) and to make it more comfortable.  More time to visit festivals and art exhibitions of all types.  More time to take photographs of whatever I fancy.  Bought my camera to photograph eyes for my iridology but it is also brilliant for flowers and landscapes. More time to enjoy life.  More time just to 'be'.  More joy & peace in my life, more time just with me.

I feel very happy within myself because I feel that I now have it all. I encourage you to look at your own life balance and work out what you would like, feel free to email me and let me know if you wish.  I would be very interested to hear from you.