Tapas Tree

For a new beginning at this turn of the year in the garden I have erected a so called bird feeding station! I call it a Tapas Tree! What with a fruit tray, sangria bowl, bread, seeds, fatty balls, peanuts ... just a couple of olives and garlic missing!
Already blue tits, a nuthatch who eats upside down, robins, black birds and chaffinches have visited! I just LOVE it! I sit and watch from indoors at the table while having hot caffeinated beverages and identify them as they stop by the TB!
Fun and food for everyone, come on by!

Cinders in boots

This piglet Cinders lives in Thirsk, North Yorkshire and dislikes mud! I love pigs!

Eartha Kitt

Eartha with daughter Kitt and grand-daughter Rachel.

Eartha Kitt died this Christmas Day in Connecticut also from cancer. This Christmas has been one of loss and also of a reckoning of what is important in our lives. I find I value more what I have when loss is there too.
Adrian Mitchell, Harold Pinter and Eartha Kitt passed away leaving huge voids and yet we can keep them alive by continuing their work and letting them inspire us to do more. Thank you for living your lives the way you did.

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter died on Christmas Eve after a long struggle with cancer. I admired him so much as a playwright and activist foremost and the way he lived his very creative life.
I am glad he got to win the Nobel Prize before his death at age 78 and in so doing wrote an extraordinary speech, a manifesto in some ways even.You can look it up on the web I am sure. I will miss his presence and his words of wisdom.

God Jul!

Happy Winter Solstice!

With much love and light to you all!

Adrian Mitchell 1932-2008

See www.bloodaxebooks.com and their fan site on Facebook for more information on this remarkable poet, performer and writer, often referred to as the Shadow Poet Laureate.