Letter from Cressida Pryor
June 21, 2021

I am aware this year that the 21st has crept up on me without writing this letter till the very day itself!

And I have a small excuse in the shape of Evie a very charming black and tan girl Chihuahua we have emergency re-homed a couple of weeks ago...

As anyone with a new pet knows it requires a new routine, a fresh focus and re-set priorities. A lot of heart ache and many waggy tailed rewards...

All good for the soul!

What I am learning is to receive her attention and to learn her ways of communicating so that we can get on together...

She is already teaching me huge amounts. To stop the mundane human tasks and play a game throw and fetch; to listen deeply to new sounds and watch flies as they flit across the wall...

She has a fullness of being present that I am learning slowly...it accords with this time of year as nature burgeons and roses are at their sweetest...

In the past week I have never savoured so many beautifully ‘ripe’ roses and can only guess that my experience is but a fraction of Evie’s keen and magnificent sense of smell...