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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Words part 1
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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Digital trails
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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Keep your children close
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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Fire and Brimstone
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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COWARDS
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…
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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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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…
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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…