Apple#638/ Day Zero A long, slow departure - a wrench, yes, with intermittent stabs of sudden sadness at all that I have left behind -...

Apple#637/ -1 It took me 3 days to stop feeling I need to do stuff here on the Queen Mary 2; or even to notice that I didn’t really want...

Apple#630/ -9 “You can be anyone and do anything you like in New York” they told me before I came here, and I believed them. And since my...

Apple#619/ -11 Time is a mystery: at least, shall I say, how I experience time can, to my unpredicting (even if by now familiarised)...

Apple#610 / -27 Seeds once fell on my land. Dispersed by hand, by wind, by bird and beast; seeds of many kinds, left to grow just where...

Apple#609/ -28 When we were planning our departure for the US two years ago, we were given this Ikea poster by Dave (brother) and Paula:...

Apple#608/ -29 When I arrived in New York I knew no-one and had nothing to do! Apart that is from the one thing I had registered for in...

Apple#604 I am thinking it is probably something to do with the light: a few days away with Swiss friends Heike and Iris near Wellfleet...

Apple#589 It really feels like we are on a roll, as our wonder-adventure in the US reaches its culmination and we begin to prepare to...

Apple#560 When my mother was just out of University, in 1954, she was privileged to be offered the opportunity to spend a year at Sweet...

Apple#581 So it is nearly over ... our time in New York is coming to an end and in under 2 months we will be back in Kimpton, back 'at...

Apple#556 I arrived in Washington happy on Wednesday night, despite the unexpectedly rattly 4 hour train ride from Penn Station. The city...

Apple#517 I have surprised myself by how often I think and talk about birdsong: since living here, I miss it; in the UK I notice it and I...

Apple#516 Jojo is my favourite New York masseuse, and I just came back from a gorgeous hour under her strong warm hands. Luca and I have...

Apple#510 Who would have thought that I would come back to England’s bright late winter and feel moved and enchanted by a...

Apple#506 FM Alexander Since September I have been attending a school for Alexander Technique as a full-time trainee, that is, for 4...

Apple#501 Rain like rivers and a traffic jam on the motorway. I feel at home already!

Apple#500 It’s been 6 months since I was last in the UK and now a total of 16 months since we left on our international adventure (501...

Apple#487 on Valentine's Day This one is for you, Luca. It takes a double miracle for me to see your soul; for both you and I must move...

Apple#476 It is wonderful how the people and stories we experience in our early years become part of us, isn't it? Untraceable, often,...