Today I went for a drive to places vaguely covered by this map. It seemed like the thing to do. I have run out of energy this week to do more than take small steps and hope the big ones turn into something, but that depends on people getting back to me. Waiting. Waiting is hard…

There was a day last year when I was walking on Blue Stack outside Donegal. Me and my jaunty pace, my hat, my backpack and the map. The map! The map was drawn by the local Irish walking enthusiasts….it was a series of lines and dashes and arrows with one reference to something I never…

It was car servicing day which meant a drive to where my brother is a service manager and a waiting time at the beach while the car was cared for and washed. A two hour drive has to have some pay offs! The weather was grey and the ocean that wonderful colour of blue/grey but…

It is the middle of 2015 and I am in a new place in my life. Everyday is in some way but this time I am beyond the mountain that it felt like I was climbing and now I am walking gently down the other side. At Easter I stopped going to the same job…