I didn’t want to write about this but hours later it still keeps bubbling to the surface and filling me with anxiety and nausea and very close to tears. This morning at the cemetery we had a very close encounter with an XL Bully. Something I never want to have…
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Sex and knitting
I’ve just finished watching The Obsession on Netflix. An excruciatingly bad remake of a classic but I was intrigued non the less. I can look back over my life and see it all now as clear as day. The good, the bad and the downright ugly. The ones I wanted…
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Life stories
I had a walk up to Home Bargains in keighley this morning. I needed a few bits for my greenhouse. It was on the gardening isle that this chap and I started talking. From comparing prices we got to life experiences, cancer, family and the benefits of positive thinking. It…
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A world run by psychopaths
25,000 people. Twenty five thousand. Killed simply because they are in the way. What Hamas did was worse than the worst horror film I have ever watched and I’ve seen most. We generally don’t get to hear what goes on that’s the thing. Pretty much the same atrocities were committed…
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Hello to 2024
2023 has been kind to me in lot’s of ways. I’m very grateful for where I live, for my continuing good health and for my relationships with my daughter and big brother and his wife. I feel very lucky. Last year I gave up on the people that sapped me…
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The Big Sixty
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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ISRAEL
I need to stop watching the international news stations but I can’t. It’s heart breaking and incomprehensible in equal measure. But I feel it’s the least that I can do. Hear about the horror and cry for these people. Today I listened to first hand accounts of what the soldiers…
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October days of doing stuff
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…
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Aging
AGING…. You grow old, they told me, you are no longer you, you become distant, sad, and lonely. I didn’t answer… I don’t get old, I get wise. I stopped being what others like me to become, but what I like to be. I stopped seeking the acceptance of others…
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I’m tired of tomatoes
I’m tired of tomatoes and hoping for some sun. I want the wind and the rain to come. Falling leaves and conkers, beanie hats and jumpers, Frigid air and toes that are numb in my wellies. I want to hibernate. I want to shut the windows and draw the curtains…