Mike’s Mellow Moment – 22 May 2016
Greetings from a soggy farm with a discontented gaggle of geese, very soggy sheep, angry alpacas, curmudgeonly cows and cockerels, but at least the ducks are delighted. With the Summer Solstice just a...
Author: Mike Powell
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 08 May 2016
Hello from a very remote farmhouse near the sea with VERY intermittent, often non existent wifi and absolutely NO phone reception…surrounded by squawking geese, ducks, hens and flaming’ co...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 01 May 2016
As we start a new month, I start a new adventure in the West Country. It’s a region that has a strange pull on me – and a lot of people. A truly magical, peaceful yet dramatic and inspirin...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 23 April 2016
Another week, another two famous names gone. What a year this is turning out to be. I’ve spoken a lot recently about the people who have left us to go to a better place and we comfort ourselves ...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 16 April 2016
This week I’ve been in Stratford upon Avon visiting a friend and his family who’ve emigrated from South Africa because of the increasing unrest in the country. I’ve known him for a q...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 10 April 2016
This week I visited the Houses of Parliament. For those who have been there, you’ll know what I mean when I say that everything seems so small. The House of Commons – where we see the feis...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 03 April 2016
As we head into April we’ve said goodbye to yet more familiar names…Ronnie Corbett and Denise Robertson just two to add to an almost unbelievable list of people who have passed on so far this ...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – Easter Sunday 2016
In the early hours of Good Friday, at just past midnight, i was watching a “Play for the Day” on TV. There was a scene involving police cars which I thought rather strange as they seemed t...
Mike’s Mellow Moment – 20 March 2016
HAPPY SOLSTICE! Well we made it Gang, British Summer Time is only a week away! After a cold, dank and grey winter there will be dry, sunny and increasingly warmer days ahead. And as of today’s S...
Mike’s Mellow Moment 13 March 2016
This week as ever we carry on trying to do our best on a daily basis to make sense of this planet and all of us on it. I had a big shock this week when I found out that my chiropractor had died at the...