I’ve always been told that goals need to be S.M.A.R.T - if you don’t remember this acronym it doesn’t matter, because life has enough external pressures in it without needing to put them on ourselves. Instead of making specific, measurable (etc.) goals I am gentle with myself and make resolutions that I can stick to because they align with my values and make sense to me. The four things that are most important to me are my family; movement; my local community and the environment. So each year I make a resolution to help strengthen those areas of my life. This is where family games night came from and new for 2018 will be an experiment with a family movie night. 2018 is the year of second han
Acacia Avenue was now a green wreck, the ivy had wound through the cracks like tickling fingers. The towering trees had almost blocked out the sun. Ferns had grown huge, their spreading fronds were the length of Zita and as high as her Mum (and her Mum was quite tall). The paving was lost under a thick layer of moss: and her house - what on earth had happened to her house? excerpt from a first draft of Zita and the Forest by Zoë aged 8 The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben was my daughter’s bed time story for a big chunk of September and it has captured our imaginations in very different ways. While Zoë is now writing The Day of The Triffids for the 21st century I am translating lesson
