another monday

it was the rhythmic drip drop of rain that woke me this morning.  not your usual constant “falling with a rush” type rain, more a methodical plop… plop… of big round drops as they fell slowly from the sky, landing on the rubber plant outside our window. they were loud drops too, loud enough to [...]

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saturday ponderings

I sit here this morning, as I do often, after a lovely warming bowl of porridge and a steamy hot cup of dandelion tea, trying to remember the thirty million things that I promised myself I’d do before the new week starts again.  This morning I woke, I had a plan of action.  Get up, [...]

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Happy Birthday to you….

Happy Birthday dear Mandy
Happy Birthday to yoooooooooooo!
xo

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today, three years ago

I dreamt so heavily last night.  I have memories of at least three different dreams and in one of them I sobbed and sobbed.  I felt like I was being left behind by someone, and in another dream, by time. 
Today when I woke, on this, my third wedding anniversary, I felt sad, I felt pressured [...]

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a gathering of the clan OR all in the name of an upcoming election

Yes, I know.  It’s a cynical title for a post.  I personally prefer to pretend that it was all about honouring a man who deserved the honour but the presence of much media and a couple of prominant politicians and especially the one who would like to be PM, makes me think otherwise.  That being [...]

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me, the dog and the donkey

Firstly, thank you all for your many and supportive words concerning my last post.  It was a yucky time and brought up a whole lot of stuff that I mainly choose to leave behind.  So thank you.  As a postscript to the last post, my friend has spent the last week deep in the bowels [...]

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i panicked

it was that word that did it.  METASTATIC.  well what do you say? i held my breath, tried hard to ignore the sick, sinking feeling deep in my belly.  she was asking what it meant and i couldn’t tell her.  not that i don’t know what it means, more that i was too scared to [...]

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while i’m here

i think it’s funny, that i sit down to do just a quick check of my email and 5 hours later, i’m still here.  i try so hard to be efficient when i log on but man, there’s a whole lot of very cool and exciting stuff out there.
so today, while i’m still feeling a [...]

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Beth Orton Stolen Car
just feel like this today…

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