Walk the Walk?

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 19 May 2012

A friend of mine, Julia Judd and her breast cancer survivor buddy are doing the ‘Walk the Walk’ again in Inverleith Park,Edinburgh – They will start their night-time power-walk and hope to finish!!!. They will be trudging (powerfully, I hope?) the streets of Edinburgh for 26.2 miles the same as read more

Mission Aviation Fellowship

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Thursday, 10 May 2012

I went to a ‘ladies group’ talk a while ago and although I was looking forward to meeting some of my friends there I must admit that I wasn’t looking forward very much to the scheduled talk called MAF or ‘Mission Aviation Fellowship’… I am not too interested in aeroplanes read more

A bit of Spring Sparkle!

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Monday, 30 April 2012

Although we have had some pretty grim weather here in the east of England of late that is no reason to be downhearted. Inclement weather means we have to spend more time indoors than is good for us however, don’t become glum or lethargic take this opportunity to use this read more

Saving water!

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Monday, 23 April 2012

Although April is doing it’s best to provide us with the weather associated with it, we are still in a state of drought. Throughout the country rivers and streams are running low and many of our reservoirs are lower than is healthy for our lovely green and pleasant land. It read more

Free accommodation?

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Monday, 9 April 2012

Having overheard this conversation a short while ago I thought I would bring it to your attention so that you can appreciate how wily our feathered friends are. She Bird: Now come along dear we really must find a place to nest. He Bird: Well, I have been looking around read more

Great statement

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 31 March 2012

The Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborn made a great statement last week in Saturday’s newspaper (March 24) or was it just newspaper journalism doing its utmost to rattle my cage? The statement run along the line of saying that he didn’t think that the burden for caring for the read more

Small is beautiful

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 24 March 2012

The best way to watch your weight is to watch what you eat instead. Going on a restricted ‘diet’ is not usually that successful because as soon as you come off the diet, you will almost certainly gain back any weight you might have lost. So… a more read more

Giving – A pleasure or a nightmare?

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 17 March 2012

It’s not only on Mothers day that we are due to give our nearest and dearest a gift; we are also expected to produce a present on birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas and on all the other special days that our family and friends celebrate. Giving is great but is it costing read more

Mothering Sunday – Spare a thought.

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 10 March 2012

Mothering Sunday is coming round again and the shops are bursting with mother’s day cards, flowers, chocolates and gifts of all kinds. Such a lovely day, when originally, we were released from our work to go back to worship God in our ‘Mother’ church, and would gather bunches of read more

Macrobiotics for strong bones.

Posted by Joan Vine, on: Saturday, 11 February 2012

According to Maria Serrano, Chairperson of the Macrobiotics Association of Great Britain, osteopenia is a condition where the human bone becomes lacking in important minerals and bone mass, it is not an illness but it is a wake-up call. Lifestyle modifications are the most important part of the prevention and read more