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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The atrocity that has happened this weekend makes me want to start an army Of women With no religion So the women in Iran and the so called morality police? That’s just legalised sadism, torture and rape. Iran supports Hamas so I’m kinda like fuck off… I also remember going…
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…
Giving in too easily
I’ve just been watching one of those awful ‘Intervention’ programmes. This one was about heroin. Awful because of the damage done to the children and family members. Awful because they relapsed. I struggle with the notion of giving in so easily to something that can destroy everything when you have…
Laughing out loud
Last night my next door neighbour and I got a bit drunk and danced around my living room to Alanis Morissette on very loud and dressed in our pj’s. No one can hear us and we have a really good laugh. If this is me having a nervous breakdown then…
Menopause and the chill of gardening
I’ve been reading a book about middle age and this paragraph struck me: ‘Menopause, at its best, can be a sacred pause in the hurtling trajectory of life. It is a time when all the “dross” can be shed, all those years of compromising, adapting, pretending to be something we’re…