Like a lot of people during the pandemic I now work predominantly at home. And often when I am working at home, I like a coffee in the morning. And often when I like a coffee in the morning, I treat myself to a couple of biscuits (especially if I have earlier been for a run). It was on one such morning, with coffee and biscuits procured and on my cluttered desk and several things on the go in my head and on my computer, that it happened. I lost the biscuits.

I’ll soon be running my fourth coaches retreat at Hazel Hill Wood.  It’s an annual event in magical ancient woodland that I’ve really enjoyed creating.  I’ve noticed that every year I bring the same set of enquiry questions for the group to work with.  We explore in different ways, always using the trees as part of our facilitation team, but the questions remain the same.  Am I just being lazy or might these in fact be universal enquiries?

I write a lot, often for my work, sometimes for this website and occasionally for no good reason at all.  There’s something about getting out of the way and setting the pen free (and yes the pen is mightier than the laptop).  It’s a pleasure that is hard to describe, ironic given that’s what I’m trying to do here.