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I love to write and always have for as long as I can remember. I wrote a story in a book when I was about 10 or 11 and I remember my mum telling me she thought it was brilliant. I loved English at school and writing composition assignments. I…
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I’ve worked long and hard building my shop on Etsy, maybe 7 or 8 years. This last year the work has indeed paid off. I’ve built up a customer base that comes back to buy more, star seller status and enough money to pay a decent wage. But there are…
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I’m going to be spending Christmas with my daughter and The Stinkers this year and as she is working a lot I’m looking forward to spoiling her too. We will have candles everywhere and sticky toffee pudding for desert and thankfully not having a telly we don’t have to suffer…
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I reached a milestone this past weekend. The big 60’th birthday. I’ve entered the ‘elderly’ stage of life. It’s finally here. And it’s ok. I spent the weekend with my family and best friends: my beautiful, kind daughter and my precious, stinky little dogs. We gorged on unhealthy but delicious…
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I often think how lucky I am to have my daughter so close. In light of the recent atrocities in the world, even more so. I see my daughter several times a week. She often stays the night, comes for meals or sometimes we just go shopping. If she stays…
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I can’t do anything to help. I can just paint. I keep working on my painting, trying to get my emotions into it. Trying to imagine this current hell on earth that is Gaza/Israel. What is happening to the people on both sides is heart breaking. It’s also reverberating into…
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I’ve had one of those days when you get lots done for no particular reason. I slayed most of my tomato plants this morning and sent them off to my compost bins. Everything is rotting in this constant rain. Today it wasn’t raining for a change. It was a balmy…
