I’m learning a song. I used to listen to it a lot so I’m enjoying its depth again Sia - Breathe 🎶

I’ve become obsessed with rhubarb. I looked up its health benefits. Here are some facts from organicfacts.net - Its ability to promote weight loss, improve digestion, prevent Alzheimer’s disease, stimulate bone growth, avoid neuronal damage, boost skin health, optimize metabolism, improve circulation, and protect against various cardiovascular conditions. I know eating a rhubarb frangipane and rhubarb chocolates don’t count much health wise (except for the simple joy of eating them occasionally) but this amazing tea does - Pau d’Arco tea (just so frickin good for you) with rhubarb pieces. Oh wow. What a combo. This tea is literally magic 🌟 and smells like rhubarb and custard sweets yay! More importantly though is the fact that my body is telling me to go and find rhubarb. I like listening to my body when it’s being sensible 😊

Click for cute wood pigeon action I love how tame the animals are here. In the countryside they’re fearful of humans possibly due to being shot at. In the city everyone lives together. It’s beautiful to be able to get closer. I even had a blackbird look at me expecting food. Yay. I’m coming back with currants 😊 (but only to feed the little birds - the geese do the biggest fattest plops everywhere and don’t need any encouragement 😄)

York is fantastic. So many serendipitous moments happened. It made us think we were in the right place. Everything flowed perfectly. It’s a city full of smiles. It’s a place to have more adventures.

I’ve had the most physically challenging couple of days. After a mammoth walk around York yesterday I found I was painfully lame last night and thought I’d have to rethink doing anything involving moving on two feet today. I couldn’t even stretch my body out during the night, because the stretch reaching my foot spasmed with serious warning bells. This morning I could make it to the bathroom (thankfully) and my supersoft insole trainers came out to play. If I could manage to oil and loosen my foot for ten minutes, going through pain barriers, there was a chance I could keep going. I needed to do this. I wasn’t prepared to have my life ruled by the pain I was experiencing. Ten minutes came and went, walking along the fort wall smiling at the daffodils with Simon cheering me on. Then, I was off, managing another 8km with the help of those soft squishy insoles below my feet (cloud of boobs I like to call them 😊). This is my reality at the moment. I don’t have the choice to wear pretty dainty shoes. Or heels. Or flipflops. It’s a miracle I can walk at all. It’s good to read this and remember to be grateful for your lovely feet. I am. They’ve got me this far.

No dance today, just 11km of walking around York! Dance challenge will resume on Thursday 😊 Super excited to be up here in this medieval cosmopolitan city. It may become our future home. Very much enjoying this apple brandy cocktail from Bill’s too as it’s helping to numb my throbbing foot and relax me at the same time. It’s a win win situation 😉

I was thinking about my beautiful relationship with Simon and what amazing things happen to us each day. I was thinking about how I like to jive, skip and shimmy across the kitchen dancefloor to my happy banging tunes while Simon works nearby, on his laptop, bopping along to the beats. I love that we dance together. I love how he sees all my crazycat moves and tells me they’re really smooth😆💃. I love how connected we are musically. It makes our journey together much more fun.

Day 24. My feet are hot! They’re quite often cold and numb so I’m taking it as a good sign. I wear tight circulation socks. They help blood to flow. So far I’m overjoyed with the result. We’ve got an amazing kitchen here with lovely smooth tiles to boogie across 😁💃

This tree had a lightening bolt running through it once. And on it grows. New shoots and life. It wants to live and thrive. Just like us.

After half an hour of listening it was time to say goodbye. Thank you swan friend. Hope to see you again sometime 🎶 ❤️ so long

I wrote this song after my dad died. I sang it at his funeral. I could never have imagined playing it to a swan years later. It was so beautiful and perfect. The lyrics go…I am a swan gliding on my humble journey of love towards the stars above, give me your hand and as one we’ll light up the world. I am a Swan 🎶

Cool. I just got featured on The Dodo for a video I recorded last June in the woods with a lovely swan. Here’s a link to a little montage. Brilliant. 🎶 thedodovideo

Day 23. Really awesome kitchen dance in purple crocs tonight, flowing and stomping to different beats and sounds. When I was 15, I would go out with my friends to Ritzy, a smokey club in town. There was a song guaranteed to get me dancing. Miss You by Everything But The Girl got me moving like other songs did not. It had a depth. At the time, the idea of trance music was a figment of my imagination. And now as I listen again, mixed and modernised by Jorn van Deynhoven, I love its depth and vibrancy even more. I twirl and swirl like I was 15 again with an even bigger smile. Trance music has come to pass for me and I’m swimming in it like a mermaid drunk on melodies. I’m in the kitchen, arms outstretched, legs pumping, heart open for the uplift and joy the tunes bring.

I am totally in love right now. In love with life. In love with myself. In love with Simon. In love with my body. In love with my choices. In love with my freedom. Feeling free to do whatever I want and be whoever I want is honoring me. No one should be able to take that away.

Enjoying an old childhood song. Just the first verse here. Practising with the birds is amazing. Lonesome Pole Cat 🎶

Day 22. Dancing in the sunshine mmmm mmmm. Warm golden glitter ball in the sky shining down. Tunes playing. Birds singing. Body warm. Springtime sun in England is gentle and loving. Soft sunshine kisses make me rosy and bright. Listening to Gabriel and Dresden - The Only Road ❤️ smooth.

A song to uplift you - Tye Tribbet - You Are Good ❤️💛🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️💛❤️ 🎶

Good morning world. Today I’m grateful for my determined legs. I’m grateful for my sturdy boots. I’m grateful for Simon. He’s there in difficult moments and beautiful ones. ❤️

Day 21. Back on it today. Dancing with the moves of a girl who has missed her previous rave session. On a new dancefloor, in a different kitchen. I love dancing on tiles. They’re so smooth. I also love dancing next to an aga when I’m cold. It gradually turns into a sauna session and I can strip down. I had two scarves on and didn’t even realise. I’ve been thinking how important it is to keep being grateful for what I have and avoid moaning. It’s so depressing. I try to to see beauty first and stay uplifted and in happy reflection. Dwelling is an unhealthy past time too and a bit of a time suck. That’s what cat’s have taught me. Stay present. No need to dwell. They’d be a mess if they dwelled. Stars now. Lots around here. Sparkling bright. Nebuchan - Frank T.R.A.X made me reach up high.

Warm sun on my face. Baby lambs bleating. Jawdaws discussing. Cold wind. Distant tractors. A car. A cattle grid vibrating. Lots of dogs barking and howling far off. Pigeons cooing. Pheasants sqawking. Many birds singing many songs. Robins, Wrens, chaffinches. Dogs barking louder and faster now, like they’re all running somewhere together. A chainsaw connecting with a tree. Machinery grating metal on metal. Ok time to come inside. It’s loud. Coming from the countryside in south England to north is a sensory experience. My senses are heightened. Everything is new.

Found some super cute images from The Wind in the Willows in the cottage. They’re painted on plates and hung on the wall. Artist unknown.

This is a mega dairy. It’s huge. Cows here never go outside. Never see sun or grass. Get milked all day through midnight. It used to be a little farm where cows had freedom. They’d mosey on down the lane a couple of times a day, end up in people’s gardens, chew the cud, breathe in fresh air. There’s an eery silence over that place. It’s unsettling. If people feel they need to drink milk, drinking organic milk means cows see daylight and have more freedom. And that’s the most important thing in life. Freedom.

Bunnies play, jackdaws chat, wrens sing, breeze blows, sun shines in my paradise garden. I got me some space here.

Day off dancing today. Did a bit of wiggling in the service station…😊 So I’m excited to dance again tomorrow with the help of this beauty. An absolute gem of a solo rave up is coming. Sounds of loveliness are on their way yippeeeee 😄

Super long day! The kitties waved us goodbye then we were off. We stopped in to see Simon’s work colleagues half way up the country (and cause mischief) and now we’re north. In Yorkshire. In the middle of nowhere. With peace and quiet and sheep and rabbits and so many stars. 🌟