The Rose Window

What’s your vision of an ideal world?

Here’s a little ramble about my ideas of a vocal utopia .. and how it can become real..

Let me know how it lands with you and what your hopes and wishes are…

🌹🎶Wild Hope 🎶🌹

You can be very wild and still be very wise. - Yoko Ono

One of the wonderful things about summer is the freedom of longer days for wild wanders. Taking a walk on the wild side…

🌹🎶 Hoppers, Smugglers & Suffragettes

A Ramble through the Rebellious Songs and Stories of Deal

Back in the mists of the pre-Covid world, my friend author suggested we collaborate on a singing-writing event in Deal. So I’m delighted to share…

Emeli Sandé at Chaka Khan’s Meltdown, The Southbank Centre

Emeli Sandé is a consummate performer with a deep, intuitive ability to illuminate and connect with the heart and soul of humanity through song. Declaring her intention…

Dear Friend

🌹🎶 The Magical Rainbow of Your Voice 🎶🌹
"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow…

As a walk up high is one of my favourite ways to clear the city cobwebs, I was happy to help a friend tick off their bucket list of British destinations and take a ramble over the White Cliffs Dover…

Image: Pixabay

A kaleidoscope is an instrument for looking at beautiful forms, formed of the Greek words - kalos - beautiful, eidos - form and skopian to look. Having admired the many beautiful, brave perspectives shared around #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, I wanted…

Dear Friend

🌹 🎶   The Living, Breathing Ecology of Song 🎶🌹

"To a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to…

🌹 🎶 Tea.. it's complicated

A Ramble through the Horniman Museum Chá, Chai, Tea Exhibition
 

Tea = Love.

I learned that early, as the warm, brown fluid poured from my grandparents’ woolly tea cosy-clad teapots at family gatherings. Since then…

After the hurly-burly of the working day dissipates

The river curls calm and contented through city corners

Gently lapping at the edges of twilight dreams,

Carrying the hopes, wishes, despairs and longings

Of millions along it's rippling, rolling snake-back,

Mesmerising…

So it’s #EarthDay and I’m feeling a bitter-sweet combination of overwhelming grief for the utter devastation humans cause and overflowing love and wonder for our world as Spring emerges.

I listened to Benedict Cumberbatch reading a griefstricken Apology from a…