Hi little bloggy friends. Hope you are all doing well. I am delighted to say that, at last, my energy levels seem to be very much back to normal, and that dreadful fatigue has almost gone. My husband came back from Buckfast Abbey a few days ago, and he had bought me home a bottle of Buckfast Tonic Wine.
Buckfast Abbey is a beautiful, peaceful place on the edge of Dartmoor (National Park) and is only about ten minutes from where we live. The Abbey is home to a Roman Catholic community of Benedictine Monks, and for nearly a thousand years, people have been drawn here. They have come to search for God. God is everywhere, certainly, but as they happened upon this place, they sensed that its beauty, its silence and tranquillity, its community of people who were similarly searching, made it a place where God might easily be found.
The Monks make their very own Tonic Wine and it is very well known. All I can say is, I have only had two glasses so far, and yet I feel so much more alive and energetic. No wonder the Monks live to such a sprightly old age!
Well, here we are at the beginning of October - that wonderful season of "mists and mellow fruitfulness", although, at the moment, it is like high summer on the Mediterranean, here in my little corner of England! The shops are starting to put their Christmas displays up, chunky knits and boots are the order of the day in all the fashion stores, and Heathrow Airport up in London have just displayed their brand new fleet of snow clearing machines!! Hey Ho!! It's a funny old life, isn't it?!
May October bless you all with health and kindness, and here's to many more sunny days. Cheers!
May October bless you all with health and kindness, and here's to many more sunny days. Cheers!
