Thought it was about time we updated our blog. No really different news save no we now know we must move soon. My mobility is not perfect and at least I have had the privilege of so far living through the pandemic. New variant seems even more debilitating. 

Nicholas will be returning to the Ukraine, but at the moment there is no fixed date as he has medical issues which needs to be resolved. Hopefully he will get the help he so deserves. 

Our decluttering is slow, but we will get there. My brother in hospital hasn’t helped the situation and has left me emotionally drained. No doubt it will get resolved soon. Although yesterday would be better. Still he is fortunate to be here after having sepsis plus a UTI plus. 

Our Whats App group is still flourishing even though some of its members are still suffering the aftermath of covid. Lots of good work being done with the right ethos and the drawing above was done by one of the group. Spirit do like spirit art and it doesn’t have to be necessarily a portrait. 

We are still carrying on with our peace campaign by sending our hearts, worry worms etc and I have had lots of inspiring messages from those who found them. We will keep this up as it’s so badly needed. Will we ever learn war is not an option. I would love to see this in my live time.

On the subject of hearts and worry worms I keep being asked for worry worms and hearts. Yes I will willingly make them, but I would like a donation for postage as like everyone else pennies are short and postage adds up. 

Till our next update keep safe and healthy.

Covid and all that

 

As you all know now Nicholas is home safe and sound, but he has contracted the dreaded covid together with his mum. Both of them have been very poorly, which seems unfair under the circumstances. Nicholas has various medical issues which have to be attended to before he can return to the Ukraine. His own cats were sulking for a while, but have now more or less got back to normal. He is still worried about his companions over there not forgetting the 13 cats (especially one wee one who adopted him). Two of which are shown here. 

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We are still making very slow progress with our decluttering basically due to my brothers extended stay in hospital and he still cannot walk any long distance. It is a great worry to myself and Daniel. 

At least our own medical needs are getting sorted out bit by bit. 

We still have our hearts set on a sanctuary plus that is to say a place which is not only a learning and healing establishment, but a place with a small cheap cafe for the lonely or isolated to come to make friends or at least have some social contact.It needs to be able to welcome people from all faiths. There has to be a place for animal  healing, a playground for the young ones plus classes and workshops for therapies, spiritual awareness plus crafts. A wee shop for sales plus a bookshop. We have lots of new workshops planned. We are continuing are peace campaign as you know by sending out worry worms, hearts etc as random acts of kindness and it’s quits rewarding when we get an email or comment saying someone found this at the right time.

Home we come

Nicholas is now back from the Ukraine and it sounds as if he had quite a gruelling  journey back. A long bus ride from Kviv to  the Polish border. The first part of the journey was where he was based near the front lines back to Kviv where he spent two nights ans one day before venturing on the  arduous path to eventually arriving Rzeszow which is a popular tourist place for English and American whose manners weren’t‘t exactly polite when he started speaking to them in Ukrainian they started shouting him loudly in English.

I will be interested to hear about the cats reaction will they be all over him or sulking?

We have actually made a wee bit of headway with our decluttering (not huge strides but in the right direction).

We are continuing with our peace campaign and a lovely lady who lives in Wales is now also offered to help and a large number of worry worms and hearts will be speeding there way tomorrow.  I have been working it out and I must have knitted around 800 to 1,000 hearts and worry worms. 

Please join our peace group on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/groups/

News but no nothing consequential

Here is the latest news on Nicholas who is now in Kyiv before he departs for Poland a long bus ride plus two flights etc . He enjoyed a nice shower etc after being with 13 people all of whom smoked, 13 cats (including the one who sleep with he named Gabrielle) plus two dogs. He should all being well be back in Gerrards Cross by 14th and hopefully enjoy a good long rest.  We will be posting picture of all the cats hopefully in a future post as he was not allowed to send photographs from there. We really admire his determination to return to help and hope he sorts out his own medical needs quickly without any problems.  

We are continuing with our Whats App Group which has now been running over two years started during the pandemic and now still going strong with members from Buckinghamshire, Kent, Somerset, Essex and London. 

We need to think about looking for a place to have a retreat which is inexpensive and within peoples financial constraints. So little money about now and everything seems to have risen in price. 

We have been continuing to campaigning for peace. The worry worms and hearts etc., have certainly helped to cheer a few people up. We have now got a lovely lady in Wales helping with our campaign. One day maybe people will realise “peace”  is worth more than “money” 

Decluttering is a slow process and my brother being in hospital has held us up even more as i seems to have spent so much time on the telephone with that and my own plus Daniel’s medical needs. The poor nurses are rushed off their feet and very short staffed. My glasses snapped in the middle and that has caused even more mayhem. 

I will be happier once we can sort out some new support stockings so my legs aren’t so swollen, but at least my feet are in better shape since seeing a lovely podiatrist called Jolene at the Downham Leisure Centre. We also got news of Petros too via her and he has established his own practice. Getting old has its disadvantages, but as I have said there are some who don’t have this privilege or they don’t want trouble makers like me on the other side. 

I am starting to feel that the days of spiritual churches is over and we need more spiritual communities with the same ethos as people like Les and Jacky Fuller, Alan Albiston, Diana Samuels, Michael Redwin, Alfred Hunt, Paul Bathgate  and Bruce Bayley. Being spiritual in my opinion is not just attending the church, but it’s a way of life and there is need for more empathy and compassion needed. I would be interested in hearing others views. On that note I will terminate this post and will update you on Nicholas’s return plus the cats reaction to him. 

Latest on Nicholas and more

Whatever you are celebrating or just resting we hope you have a peaceful constructive time. 

Nicholas is now in the war zone so his mum will receive little news until he returns to a safer place. He had joined another aide organisation as 

https://www.msf.org/

has as I previously said been declared a terrorist group. The last news she received was that the group of people he is with had adopted a cat which has given birth to 12 kittens. Luckily Nicholas would have difficulty in bringing them back as the three he has at home are none too pleased by his absence.

We are still decluttering but it is slow, slow,  slower and I am finding it slightly depressing. These crazy energies are not helping. 

We are continuing sending peace tokens out and sometime it’s quite rewarding when you get a message saying it’s made a difference in someone’s life (especially in these trying chaotic times). Several boxes have gone out and I am hoping to get another out soon. Hopefully these too will cheer at least one or two people. Please join our group on Facebook “Rainbow Healing Sanctuary Hearts for the Love of Peace RAK”. Let’s send out peace worldwide and be more understanding of our fellow human beings.

On a personal note  I am adding another thing to my bucket list and that is we go to Cyprus to surprise someone. So that is number seven 

More News of Nicholas

Nicholas has now been in the Ukraine over a week and has been sorting out peoples medication amongst other things as most of the medical records have been lost. The medical charity he works for MSF have now been declared a terrorist organisation with shoot on sight for any of their workers. Chemical weapons are being used  aimed a civilians. So it’s all pretty grim and we applaud Nicholas for his courage and determination. He also travelled into territory where he couldn’t communicate with Diana (not easy for her I hasten to add). She was without communication for three days. They have set up clinics where they needed to do but have had to withdraw because of being declared a terrorist organisation as have the other charities and aid organisations. He is now back in Aviv near the Polish border and will returning to the Uk on 14th April. More on that in my next post.

My brother is still in hospital recovering from Sepsis and a UTI. At the moment there is no indication of when he will return  as he is having a kidney scan on Monday. Lots  of healing needed. We are shattered and sleeping chaotically. Awake in the early hours a present from Covid.  

We are still on our peace campaign and worry worms in the Ukrainian colours are etc are being taken to the Ukrainian Church in London by a friend who had being going there since the war started. We are also hoping to get some to more countries to send the peace signal worldwide. 

Are decluttering is making slower progress than we would like but it’s continuing.j

Nicholas’s in Ukraine

 

Today 22nd March Nicholas officially arrived in the Ukraine having arrived yesterday in Poland. Above is a picture of him at the airport with his luggage mainly full of goodies for the children in the orphanage. Most of them have lost there parents in this awful war. He has just messaged his mum to tell her how appalled he is at the number of graves he has seen on his journey from the coach station to his rented flat in Lviv. I experience the end of the last war and my father actually was one of those who witnessed those in Germany in concentration camps. He would never talk about it. I will try and update our blog at least once a week. His mum st the moment has three cats who are not impressed with his departure. 

We are continuing are peace campaign and trying to get our hearts etc into as many country as we can and I truly believe sending peace energy can help to bring lasting  peace. So far hearts etc have been left in France, Spain, Germany, Australia, Tasmania, Wales and across the pond in the United States. Now hopefully in Poland and the Ukraine. Keep reading our blog to get updated news and photographs. Please join us on our peace campaign on Facebook “Rainbow Healing Sanctuary Hearts for the Love of Peace RAK”. Please also spare a thought for a beautiful soul who past to spirit 3 years ago on the 22nd March Julie Felix missed by so many including both Daniel and I. Both Julie and I have been on a peace mission all our lives and I will continue until I too make that journey. Daniel has now too join this mission. At one time I would have protested and marched but now I feel the only way forward is by other means 

Now we will get decluttering again and hopefully get something done. We seem to be flogging a dead horse as the saying goes. No doubt we will win eventually 

 

                          

Latest news

Firstly we want to wish our friend Nicholas a safe and easy journey to the Ukraine. We all admire him greatly at this time, but know he will be kept safe while he does what he can to help. We totally understand his compulsion to travel there and  we know it’s part of his journey in this life. His safety is guaranteed. Hopefully a wee bit towards what this beautiful planet needs peace.

We are continuing our decluttering, but not having a great deal of success partly due to the long covid and partly due to other factors which haven’t quite been resolved but we are getting there.

On a personal level I am continuing my peace campaign and sending plus giving our heart key-rings, worry worms etc. We need to start thinking about Mother Earth she who sustains us and gives us all we need. 

Luckily here on the fringes of Kent the snow which was forecast has not arrived and I for one am grateful as with my swollen legs at the moment I am just wobbling and Daniel’s legs are a little restricted too. 

We have plans for a new series of workshops when we get the opportunity which will include a series of mindful workshops, which we will update you with as soon as we know where and when 

Best  bit of our news was that a wee boy had found a worry worm on the beach at Eastbourne kindly taken for us by Christine Camp and he adored it-. Take a look at “RainbowHealing Sanctuary Hearts for the love of Peace I am also looking forward to Lucya Starza new book “Round the Wheel of the Year” I highly recommend her books and blog “BADWITCH.CO.UK”

Now 2023

 Long overdue I am updating our blog. We have decided it must be this year we move. We both would prefer to be on one level. So decluttering now taking place in earnest. Things we no longer need nor want must go. We are both still suffering some effects of covid, but they are getting better. 

How many hearts and worms etc have been sent out in a plea for peace is now countless and even the boxes I have sent our total 450 ( not counting those we have left various place or given out- total must be nearer 800)and I have another 20 ready to go see latest batch at the top of this page. A plea for peace in the Ukraine. The whole world seems to be chaotic. Such sadness with the desperate situation in Turkey and Syria. Floods in New Zealand and now the weather across the pond. Here too with the economy. 

I have decided I need to make a bucket list. 

1. Open our own Sanctuary.

2. Get an MA

3. Walk properly without wobbling like a womble.

4. Complete the animal essence course with Daniel Mapel.

5. Met Paulo Coelho

6. See Mary Chapin Carpenter in concert.

7. Raise some money for the Herona Hospital Maternity Wing in Africa supported by the late Julie Felix (passed to the to the higher realms 2 years later this month). 

Some of these may seem impossible, but who knows!)