Welcome to our October 2021 blog, hope it makes you smile

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"ok, I'm coming as fast as I can"

         "I may be asleep but don't steal my carrot ! "

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Around the croft

I don't think we'll go hungry

The beginning of the potato harvest, with lots more to come

and food for free, mushrooms bigger than your hand just for the picking

I love the rain !! especially when it decides to hang around for a while in beautiful places

wow, busy spiders !

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Beach treasures

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What do you think this is ?

answer towards end of the blog

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Quote of the month

"I have lived with several Zen masters -

 all of them cats"

Eckhart Tolle

our Tilly nicely arranged on her felted cushion, very Zen-like

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Poem of the month

To a departed loved one

I thought I heard your voice.

I thought I saw you standing there,

there in the doorway.

I thought I felt your hand touch mine.

I thought I smelt your sweet perfume.

But I couldn't have, could I ?

But I did, didn't I ?

June Purvis

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Book of the month

Sometimes it's very comforting to take a book from your childhood down from the shelves and reread it's pages. 

This one was bought by my lovely Dad from his favourite  bookshop "Foyles" in Charing Cross Road, where he spent most of his lunch hours.

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Pause for thought

"Around us life bursts forth with miracles -

 a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. 

 If you live in awareness it is easy to see miracles everywhere.

Thich Nhat Hanh

(from Tao & Zen Facebook page)

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answer to : what do you think this is ?

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'tis the season to think about buying presents.

With all eyes and ears on Glasgow and COP26, climate change, sustainability and saving our planet choose wisely.

Let us all look at what we are buying;

 is it sustainable?

 does it harm the environment or an animal?

will it end up in landfill in a few weeks time after the initial 5 minutes of laughter?

has cheap/child labour been exploited in it's manufacture?

will it just add to the world's plastic mountain?

is the item really needed?

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Can we be a part of the solution,

 not part of the problem ?

No matter what governments do or don't do,

collectively the people of the world have the real power

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Some local roadside fun

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Big thanks to Dorje and the Blue Men of the Minch for organising an amazing event with lanterns, beach procession, percussion, poetry and song and mulled apple juice to mark the end of summer and the beginning of winter.

Black Pearl Creole Kitchen

(photo from Black Pearl Creole Kitchen Facebook page)

          and big thanks, too, to Anji and James of 

Black Pearl Creole Kitchen

 (follow them on their Facebook page)

 for the delicious food to come back to after the procession

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Don't forget

 "when it rains look for rainbows, 

when it's dark look for stars"

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Until next month we wish you all a cosy, safe November

Malcolm and June

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