I had the most peaceful weekend. I don't know how I can complain about small things when I have all this beauty this within my reach. I suppose we have to learn to capture and stay in those moments when things frustrate and worry us. To remember that everything is transient. It is quite amazing that to be in a beautiful wild place seems to blot everything else out for me. We went to Ardnamurchan (Àird nam Murchan 'headland of the great seas'). It is a peninsula on the west of the highlands here. It's the furthest point west in the whole country, 25 miles further into the sea than Land's End down in England. This place was full of beautiful atlantic oak woods, so much moss and lichen everywhere, lots of species I had never seen before. The grass and woods were filled with hundreds of different kinds of fungi. It was quite wet and windy but it just felt fresh and beautiful. We climbed Ben Hiant. It was only a small hill, not over 600m but you got the most heavenly views of the sea and the lochs. There is no way to capture how beautiful everything is with a camera but it's nice to take pictures to remember things anyway. I feel I could live somewhere like this but I would have to work out how to make my living and that would be the hard part.





























So I have recovered for now from my frustrations about work. You all gave me really wonderful advice too. I'm hoping to respond to you all soon. Thank you.

I wrote about making books a few journals back here. Now I have finished the little case I was making for the bird books I found. I'm going to start a new project this week I hope. One of my great wishes is to be able to use my time more wisely. I just need to keep working on that.









I'm just about to go to my yoga class. I found a new place to practice in the library of the Theosophical Society building. So I go there once a week and to another school one day a week too. The new place is a beautiful old Georgian building with high painted ceilings and the walls are lined with books on all sorts of fascinating esoteric subjects. I noticed 3 whole shelves on Madame Blavatsky. My teacher is so good and she has a huge lovely dog called George who sits peacefully and sleeps while we practice. He is a Rhodesian Ridgeback the size of a small horse. All these details make the already wonderful practice even brighter. I'm trying to increase my practice and be more disciplined. It feels so good to use your body and discover its potentials.

Look out for me in 3 days x