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…
Growing Old Wisely
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Thoughts on Christmas
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…
Sometime around now
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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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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…
Sometime around now
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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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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…