Alderney and chamomile

We just enjoyed a wonderful few days in Alderney courtesy of my parents, being treated to the Blonde Hedgehog cottage and numerous wonderful meals. The island is amazing! I can’t believe it has taken me 16 years to get back there again, but I know I’m not alone and others are saying the same.

There’s a real sense of community and those people we met were really friendly and welcoming. The food was amazing too, I love the emphasis on fresh, seasonal and local and only wish we had more of the same approach here.

We explored on bikes, my legs might take a while to recover, missing the electric cargo bike and pulling 3.5 stone of Eben behind me in a trailer! We explored at length too, managing to find a number of neolithic stones as well as some beautiful spots, especially Saye Bay!

The boys enjoyed the many forts and bunkers, not really my thing, but I was rather struck with the roman walls and it did cross my mind that the land must be truly sacred to have been protected by so many different men over the ages.

We even managed a boat trip out to Burhou and Gannet’s rock, to see puffins and gannets, which was a real treat and quite unexpected - it was really amazing to see the land from this angle too and all the shapes in the rocks.

Back home in Guernsey the chamomile has flowered and my nature friend, Fi, was right in that it is a labour of love harvesting the flowers for tea. The evening primrose’s have started flowering too, the garden is alive even if the hedgerows have been sacrificed for the car, always such a shame but there we go.

I’ve been practising some Qi gong recently, having been inspired by my friend Caragh. Loving weaving this into my daily practice and finding more of then earth in the process. It feels necessary with the solstice approaching and another full moon next week - sadly it looks like a wet solstice sun rise but at least this makes me feel less sad about not being at Stonehenge for another year.

I’m curious to see what the next week brings, I was too busy with the family in Alderney to feel into it but hopeful the insight comes soon…change is afoot I can tell you that, this is the year of stepping up and I am finding that manifesting in ways I hadn't appreciated. Let’s see…