Wild Garlic and Walks

I found wild garlic yesterday, huge amounts of it. Its all going into jars of pesto and being sold at Dragonfly Wholefoods in Highgate. The flowers are amazing and it is true that wild food make me feel so incredible. I am in love with the connection from strolling in nature's paradise to nourishing the body and soul and I am yearning to learn so much more about picking my own wild foods.

Hopped on to Rob's website this morning, a miletstone of accessible information on wild foods and would you believe he is offering nature walks over the next two weekends where he will be pointing out all of natures' edibles? Yes! I shall be attending one this Saturday, and would love you to come along also, imagine what fun we could have! For more information, visit Rob's site.

Also since its the season of vitality and blossom, I would love to share my recipe for raw elderflower cordial...

4l warm water
40 heads of elderflower - you can use less
4 lemons squeezed the thrown in the bowl
a whole jar of wild raw honey!!

Put it all in a bowl and allow it to infuse for as long as possible.

If you are feeling extra creative, you can use this sryup to make the most amazing raw pear/apple crumbles. Oh yes, photos still to come. Hold tight!

Is It All Over My Face, You've Got Me Love Dancing

2am and I am supposed to be up in five hours to chef at the raw food cafe in Highgate and there seems to be no chance of my sleeping in the near minutes to follow - I am high once again on cacao and mesquite, my drug of choice, yet not by choice - I had to sample the raw mint chocolate brownies and love-heart chocolates that I have made for tomorrow. Thanks to cacao, my creative juices are flowing, (also made a raw elderflower cordial for my raw pear and elderflower crumble, and a luscious vanilla cream to go with it, mmmmmm!) I will try to get photos of these posted soon.

Cacao gets me dancing, had a disco session tonight to Larry Levan's "Its all over my face" classic, and in the midst of ecstatic dancing I only just figured the enititled 'all over my face' riff, is a reference to the white powder that fuelled the disco era. Aha! Let cacao be the new drug of love dancing!

Punta Mona finally got back to me to let me know that I am welcome to come and stay in their beautiful sustainable community - am off to Costa Rica very soon, hurray!!

Had a fine weekend shared with Holi, even more stunning in real life. I am bowled by the wonderful ribbon that she laces through life, and feel totally inspired to travel now. I am learning to let go of doubts, fears and just run with life, and dancing to music is my yoga right now. Holi and I shared a little adventure in Heathrow airport this weekend that totally confirmed my current movement, all about dipping toes in, taking leaps foward, then sometimes a pause, trying, sometimes finding the groove, sometimes just searching for it. There are no mistakeS, and I think less and less that there is a right and wrong in life, just a constant search for alignment. I feel like a kid right now, banging on the keys of a new-bought piano, thrashing chords, some that clash and some that rhyme but all necessary in the quest for a melody that allows me to sink into the deep spirtual and emotional power of life and love.

Realising Dreams

Its been a darn long time. Been sucked into the money generating machine in Londonia, making funds to fund the enxt step in my beautiful journey. I am a little trapped in the London whirlwind right now; working in power crazed structures, feeling like a caged rat in a system I don't believe in. Exciting ventures all over the world of people who want to shout love, dance and life into the ears of their children. I wish I could shut out the words that are I am hearing in the background on the family telivision covering the mayoral elections; appalling, fundamentally wrong, shameful, deprivation, anxiety, problem are big words for little people to use so freely. I want to tune into love, dance and rejoice the beautiful gift of love that was given to each and every one of us. Why do we think that life was given to endure, a test..I don't know. It seems so surreal, I don't seem to want to make the city work for me, I would rather wake up to sunshine, flora and fauna. The energy comes out of the sun, the food comes out of the ground, and human contact is all around, don't need to go to social clubs to find love. Costa Rica here I come. Hardships letting go right now, moving out of my comfort zone, a few hardships to endure but so worth it in the long term. I have known this dream for a long time, now I am finally realising it.