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Rolling...

So enough of the wah-wah that we have no habitable home; the waiting continues. We have had a run of sunny weather which has contributed wel...

And if you're homesick, give me your hand and I'll hold it...

OK, the yearning to go home is now so strong, I wake every morning counting down the days. Each and every delay in the house build (it raine...

She writes...

I am well into September now, it feels like life has taken on a different pace and the days of summer are over. It rains a lot and we Brits ...

The need for new boots...

It's a strange time for me at the moment, right? I get it. But I am struggling not to react to it. It's so typical me, the ability t...

Carpenter 2015

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Encumbered....

When my husband and I were first together, I moved in to his one bedroomed flat. The whole place was so little that I could pace the entire ...

Summer's lease...

I see people around town; mothers from school whom I haven't set eyes on since we broke up and they say they've had 'the most am...

Musings...

The strange displacement of not living at home. I am finding it is one to get used to; perks and disadvantages. We are staying in the middle...

Back...

It's been the longest time. I last wrote when in some kind of personal maelstrom, struggling to make sense of the return of horrid pain ...

The unwanted visitor...

I have been absent I know; a horrid recurrence of my jaw pain symptoms have floored me. I have lived with this chronic pain for so long , o...

Watermelon 2015

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She wore a raspberry beret...

There's a local event brewing, a thing that needs to raise money for a worthy cause. There was talk of a ball or a banquet or some such ...

You got that James Dean day dream look in your eye...

I have many times lamented the fact that when living in rural Southern England, my sartorial choices are limited. There is always the mud an...

Women, writing, wisdom...

One thing of note, last week when in Monaco, was that the women I met (the wives and girlfriends; although not always) were so open. Maybe t...

The scent of pine and jasmine...

I've been to Monaco since last week. My husband won an award with his work and so we were treated. I kept writing and re-writing in my h...

Is Victoria happy?

Yesterday I got up and did the school run. It was interspersed with a lecture from me to my daughter about how she really should do the athl...

What's really going on...

Singing in the car to One Direction's entire back catalogue. Feeling wistful at the Zayn parts. Cindy Crawford in the Taylor Swift vide...

And the women say...

Every now and then I get a jolt of feminism. Here's the background: I grew up the second child to a single mother. She was a bastion of ...

Lovely things...

Things that are lovely: Comments from strangers that say: thank you for writing what you write and the inherent comfort of the words: 'm...