Green Ghost Towers is enjoying the sea views – not caused by a fateful giant wave but rather a move to the coast. This has meant a smaller garden for both flowers and vegetables. So we all hatched a cunning plan whilst in the lookout tower we spied allotments.  So that was the plan – we would apply for an allotment. Some 14 months later we have half an allotment of five rods. So as ghosts and spooks we like to visit at night and would you believe it? We have the cemetery next door so we can talk gardening over with fellow ghosts before they leave for the light – not sure if the lamp post is the light but if it fits!    Back to the allotment. We asked for a quick plough and wow – great machines move in and we have what looked like a gre...

At midnight today I donned a dress, make-up and a wig and joined about a thousand others for a 10 mile walk around St Albans for the local hospice, Grove House. My sister enthusiastically took up the opportunity to transform my looks! The full moon and warm evening added to an already great event. Men were allowed to join as long as they got into the spirit. After all, it was a women's walk. Grove House provides a fantastic service to the community and has particular poignance to me as they looked after my grandad during his final weeks with cancer a few years ago. What worked really well was the fun and spirit that was apparent from the very start to the end. One other chap even dared to walk in high heels, getting over half way before ...

Magic is a wonderful thing. For years I have been bamboozled by the mystic genius of thelikes of Houdini, David Copperfield, David Blaine, Derren Brown and Tommy Cooper. The escapism to our imagination is a most wonderful thing.  This weekend, through a most serendipitous chain of events, I landed myself in the garden of Darren Eden. The venue may have been a hotel room but all sorts were blossoming within those who attended.  Darren has nurtured a community of magicians, showing them how to tap into their intuition.  The simplicity of his message is the power of it – focus on what you love and take all obvious steps towards it.  When you spend time with magicians, synergistic wonder occurs. When you look for love from extern...

Grow in your sleep presents walk innovation in south London. Grow in your sleep was born in Zakynthos in Greece alongside advanced serendipity, which evolved into Walk Innovation.  It started with three friends, who were at a crossroads in their lives.  We did lots of walking, talking, keeping journals and having lots of fun.  What came out of this special place and journey is a new vision called walk innovation. Adam first tried out this walking and coaching method on me in the lovely mountains of Zakynthos.  When Adam first told me about his vision, I was not convinced and can be a very hard woman to please and get on board with new ventures.  I have done the motivational speaking conferences, network marketing meetings...

Back in February of 1999 I went to Laos, as part of my 18 month backpacking tour of Australia and South-East Asia. Its borders had not been opened long and it was necessary to check in and out of each new village that we visited, via a designated passport office. The practice seemed ridiculously antiquated afterour trips to Thailand, where tourism was rife, as was the cynicism overpeople’s motives for befriending us.   Our Thai trip had taught us to question people’s motives when they approached us, wanting to be our friends. So, my friend, Brian, and I were a little cautious when we crossed the border, over the Mekong river, from Thailand to Laos.   We did little on our first day at the other side of the border and checked...

Following up my previous journal on letters to yourself, I remembered too late that I should have suggested putting your thoughts and feelings, and hopes and aspirations, down in a letter to be opened by yourself sometime after 2012 – the magical year of transition, according to Mayan belief. ~ Now that I’ve happily set that troubling item down I now want to suggest to you the possibility of Guerrilla Postcarding: A means of spreading fun and delight around the world, all for the cost of a second class stamp. I’ve nursed this idea for a while, ever since I discovered a collection of postcards compiled by former Beatle, Ringo Starr, from a time when the Fab Four were on good terms and kept in touch with the other...