Our daughter was born in Spain where we lived and worked for several years. She gets her GCSE results today and will go to the local college to study A levels. At 18 she'd like to study & work in Spain for a year.


She was born just after midnight on 10th December 1992. The consultant, a handsome, glamorous Spaniard arrived having walked to the hospital and told us, " There is a beautiful eclipse of the moon "


I have always thought this was so special.


Yesterday we heard the sad news that this doctor had been killed in an accident. Tragically his brother, also a doctor, had lost his son - killed in the recent bombing - he was one of the Guardia Civil. Our thoughts are with the family

I am not particularly religious. If anything my religion is Mother earth, nature and the elements. I have been learning T'ai Chi for three years have a feeling of well being during the class and afterwards.

I went on a T'ai Chi retreat to a wonderful place in Devon and just before we left my teacher and I picked a few sloes. It was lovely out there in the sunshine in beautiful countryside feeling calm, relaxed and " at one with nature "

I made sloe gin from the Springhead sloes but it hasn't been sampled yet !