It all turns on affection

My grandmother had a phrase “the longer you live in a place, the longer you live”.  I found it a curious phrase, one that tended to be used on the death of a friend or neighbour I remember.  Like many of my grandmothers utterances,  I never stopped the...

road testing my template

Some responses to the key areas for the community plan Rather than design a survey, I have used the mind mapping format to generate ideas for myself.  I am listing them here, and also some further notes on the survey idea.  Ray will also send on a...

thinking towards a community plan

Some notes on areas for an action plan Possibility of using an electronic survey – survey monkey to do some initial information gathering via current email addresses of mine, the community alliance group and via the village facebook page. Need to explore the...

should we show tolerance to our neighbours

“We see people and things not as they are, but as we are” Anthony De Mello These last few weeks of revisiting previous musings and re writing them in a reflective way has helped to refine some thoughts, but also to stimulate new ideas and directions.  A colleague...