Wisdom and experience

With age comes wisdom and experience. Sounds trite, maybe old fashioned, and definitely of a certain age. But sorry young folks, it is also true. We are enjoying our middle ages. Fast approaching our later years. And time is definitely speeding up as we realised and appreciate how wonderful life is.

Downsizing - where to start? We say with the fridge at PumpjackPiddlewick

I love downsizing. I love going through my things and getting rid of any thing I can. There is something so very therapeutic about it, like a weight cast off your shoulders. Some of the items I give away, some I sell. It depends on the item. But where doRead More →

looking at interspecies living at PumpjackPiddlewick

There are good days, and bad days, when it comes to interspecies living. Today was a bad day. Well, not really. A bit of an exaggeration, especially as the day has barely started. The weather is cold and the cats have taken to staying in. They are not used to,Read More →

changing your life is it hard to do with PumpjackPiddlewick

Whether changing your life style, downsizing or, as in our case, following a dream (a well as the other two points), what is the hardest step to pursuing change? I’ve ‘given it all up’ in my life, not once, but twice.  By choice. The first time I gave up everythingRead More →

missing my parents as life seperates us here at PumpjackPiddlewick

Every now and then I re-read posts I have written. Sometimes it’s practical, to check for broken links, relevancy or to update. I was looking over ‘Parents – I blame them for everything’ and realised I am really missing my parents. Okay, strange, when you think the post was aboutRead More →