Well I am back in Blogger land! I had taken a very long break and felt like I had lost the will to live but well here I am. I thought about just carrying on with the old blog but decided that I needed to make a clean break of it and start again.
Well for people who are new to me I guess I should introduce myself first.
My name is Lisa, other names I have been known as since I first got on the internet all those years ago (20+ years) are Angel, AngelLisa, Celticwolfspirit, Avaloniaspirit, Wildsoulwoman to name most.
I live on a small island off the south coast of the UK called the Isle of Wight, I was born here 47 years ago in May, yes that makes me a Taurean and yes I am stubborn and bloodyminded! I was born in the Chinese year of the Monkey which again is apt for me as I have a severe monkey mind and find it hard to focus on stuff for long before I drift off looking for butterflies or hares or ravens.
I live in a lovely little house in the Countryside, my two beautiful grown up kids have long since moved out and leading their own lives but very glad to say they come 'home' regularly and are both here on the island too, so I am very grateful.
I love the countryside around me, I am close to the sea...wherever I lived on the island I would be close but I am on the edges and it's my favourite place to be. I love my garden and I love growing fruit and vegetables and flowers all in amongst each other, I'm not really a person who is into straight regimental lines and I also don't often follow the 'norm'.
I love to read, all kinds of things, fiction and non fiction and also writing and in the past I have even wrote a short childrens story which was never published. I also love to take photos, especially landscapes and old buildings and I have a facebook page with them displayed on:Wild Soul Woman Photography
Along with thost things I also enjoy I enjoy drawing, painting, collecting sea glass and driftwood, stones and shells, I do dream work (if you want to read any of my dreams they are on a tab at the top of the page. I embroider, sew, cook and bake. I am vegan and I have more than a few allergies and intolerances to various things.
I also am working with meditation but struggle because of that whole monkey mind thing but I am determined to get there without wiggy things happening...that's a story for another day if you want to hear about it! Well I think that that may be enough of an intro for now, I don't want to bore you all!
Lots has happened since my old blog, firstly my lovely Nan died a few weeks ago after suffering with dementia and my beautiful daughter will be making me a Nan myself at the beginning of August! I am very excited! I am very much looking forward to meeting my grandson and welcoming him to the loving arms of our family. I am looking forward to taking him places and doing things with him...introducing him to our beautiful island and the countryside around us, taking him to the sea, and the woods and to have fun in the garden and teaching him to grow things and to get his hands dirty.
The other thing that has been going on with me is that I have been pretty ill since before Nan died, it was about 2 months of stomach pain, bloating, discomfort. I went to the doc and she had a feel around and said that I had a build up of acid. It was awful. She put me on pills (which is something I don't like doing but I was desperate!) and took them for a month, and they did nothing. I ended up going back and after some discussion about whether to send me for a camera down my throat we decided to wait another month and to double up on my pills before going down that track. She also sent me up the hospital to have some blood tests done, including one for cancer.
A day or so later I had a thought pop into my head, I realised that I had started drinking nettle tea on a very regular basis and this started just before I started getting ill. I decided to research and found that nettle tea can be very good for you except if you have a sensitive stomach, stomach issues etc. I just never really thought about it before but it made sense. If I ever got stung by stinging nettles in the past I would be in pain for at least 24 hours. I had always been hesitant about consuming nettles and I guess like my intolerance to coconut I should've listened to that inner voice, it would've saved me from thinking I was dying.
Of course with being ill I haven't been able to do my regular daily walks and it's taken it's toll on my body, what with that and resorting to packaged vegan foods because I didn't feel well enough to cook from fresh, so I kinda feel like I am right back at the beginning again. Though my measurements aren't as bad as they were right back when, so that's cool.
Well ok so I am going to wind this first post up now as the sun is shining and my garden is calling! Have a great day xx
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