It may 1 April but this is no April fool trick.  I’m back with high falutin blogging ambitions. Although autumn is upon us this summer has broad shoulders and is still warming body and soul.  Whilst I’ve been gone on my blogging sabbatical there has been plenty... 
As auspicious dates go, 22 February, is mine. The international date line stole that day eight years ago as I shifted my life from the UK to New Zealand.  Three years ago, the Christchurch earthquake shook up my foundations again on 22 February. I probably wouldn’t... 
Over the last few weeks I took an unofficial sabbatical from blogging.  It was so unofficial that I didn’t even tell myself.  Instead, somewhere deep in my subconscious I was looking for an answer to a question posed by a fellow blogger about who do... Life’s flotsam and jetsam reverberates at this time year.  People are looking back on the previous year to reflect on the best, the worst and the most significant.  One of the most fascinating retrospectives I watch was the BBC 2013 Moments in Time that explored... Refreshed from a week of rest and festive indulgence I am now looking down the barrel of several more weeks on domestic leave.  This is the time of year when there is no time for contemplation and reflective planning but a sprint with nature and an insanely long list... 
