General

The Freedom of Simplicity

We have now been on the road for one week and are gradually settling into our temporarily nomadic lifestyle.  So far we have spent nights

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Inspiration for Life

Happy Birthday to Me!

A bit like when I started writing this blog, I have a big blank page in front of me and I can make the next seven year cycle into whatever I choose.

So, what will it be?  What will I create now?  What next?

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Inspiration for Life

Chaos and Reorganisation

I have had to keep reminding myself that chaos always precedes reorganisation.  Everything has to go to a point of chaos before it can reorganise at a new, higher level and that is exactly what is happening in my life right now.  But chaos is not comfortable and I am not so good with it. 

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Inspiration for Life

This could be my last day

When I become very conscious of this fact – that everything passes, nothing is permanent and this could be my last time – then my present moment becomes much more vivid and much more alive.  Because I want to remember it.  

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General

What this blog is all about…..

On 25 August 2017 my partner Eoin and I leave our home in Northern Ireland for a new life in France.  We have sold our home, sold one of our businesses, are selling or giving away most of our furniture and buying a motor-home to live in until we find our new home.  We think this will be somewhere in the Dordogne but we aren’t 100% sure yet!

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Life in the Dordogne

My love affair with France

Although I have a sense that I may have lived several previous lives in France, my love affair with the country in this lifetime started when I was 5 years old at the time that this photo was taken.

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