Reflecting

trees in the stream, originally uploaded by bobsee.
I must confess I find reflections entrancing.
They catch my eye. Stop me in my tracks.
Maybe it’s because the world looks upside down or back to front in them. Things aren’t where you’d expect them to be.
I’m glad of reflections. They make me notice the world when [...]

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Bloggers choice

Amy has nominated me for Best Health Blog – if you click on the badge top right it’ll take you to the Blogger’s Choice Awards to add your vote (if you’d like to!)
While you’re at it, Amy’s been nominated for three awards – photography, writing and parenting. Go visit her blog and see what you [...]

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Writing your way to health

Here’s another study which shows the health benefits of writing about your experience. We all use narrative to make sense of our lives, so you’ll understand that writing about our experiences can help us to do just that – to makes sense of our experience. However, more than that, narrative is a creative, expressive act. [...]

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When is your best time of day?

twilight, originally uploaded by bobsee.
We are all different. One of the most obvious differences between us is temporal. Are you a morning person? Do you leap up out of bed on waking ready to engage with a new day? Or do you slowly emerge from a distant faraway Land of Nod, taking your [...]

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Curing depression?

A study by Professor Kirsch and colleagues of Hull University has set a bit of a cat amongst the Pharma pigeons. It’s a pretty technical study but in summary what they did was got access to all the trial data submitted to the FDA by drug companies applying for licences for the big four new [...]

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The fairy house

My eldest grand-daughter showed me this the other day -

“It’s a fairy house”, she said
Come and look closer

It reminded me of how rich the lives of children can be. What is it that makes such a difference?
Imagination.
What a shame that so many toys these days are manufactured right up to the finish point. Kids can [...]

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Second sight

flight, originally uploaded by bobsee.
From my living room window today I saw this little trail of snow on top of Ben Ledi so grabbed my camera (can’t tell you how long it’s been since Ben Ledi was visible from my window – we’ve had days of wild winds and rain or thick, heavy [...]

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Music from the heart

Last night I went to see Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham in concert at Falkirk Town Hall and, oh, how I enjoyed it. What a great evening’s entertainment. To be quite honest I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Scottish music which can be everything from twee to tear-jerkingly emotional but I [...]

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Imagination – how we make worlds

I took this photo of an amaryllis (ok, actually it’s probably not truly an amaryllis, but actually Hippeastrum) recently and when I looked at it once I’d uploaded it to my mac, it brought back to my mind a Hermann Hesse fairy tale I read back in my teens (yep, well over three decades ago!). [...]

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Music aids recovery from stroke

Here’s an interesting study which split stroke patients into three groups – one group listened to music of their choice, one to audio books and the third didn’t listen to anything other than the sounds around them.
After three months, verbal memory improved by 60% in the music group, compared with18% in the audio book [...]

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