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June 12, 2017
Stan and his Rabbit Palace
Stan has been living on the porch for the past year, but now that we have finished the kitchen renovation, we have lost the porch. It has now become part of Beloved’s office, and Beloved is not happy with sharing a room with Stan the rabbit. Because it is summer and because the weather is […]
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June 6, 2017
Regatta
Regatta season is now almost over, The Rower’s boat did magnificently, and the next stop will be National championships, before the world championships in August. It hasn’t been quite as much fun as other years, largely, I suspect, because I am a middle-aged menopausal woman, without the same energy or cheerful smile as I had […]
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May 18, 2017
Community Office Space
For years I was happy working on my own at home, but that was before children, before the business of life, and most importantly, before technology. What I have found, for some time, is that whilst we all like to think that technology is connecting us more than ever before, we are in fact growing […]
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May 15, 2017
Modern Miss Darcy
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May 3, 2017
The Little Pugger
Those who know me well know my propensity for rescuing animals. This is not necessarily a good thing. Occasionally I have found myself overwhelmed and have ended up being a halfway house for the animal in question, finding them a much more loving home after I realize that we have taken on too much, or […]
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April 27, 2017
High/Low Philosophy
I’m not a big follower of fashion, but every now and then, I have to admit I do succumb. I am generally a firm believer in the “High/Low philosophy”, which is to mix the very cheap, with the occasional very expensive. A couple of years ago I found myself on Nantucket with the always glamorous […]
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April 6, 2017
Gullible…
I am exceptionally gullible. It is in fact my middle name. I also believe in all manner of unbelievable things, like ghosts, and past lives. And aliens. There is absolutely no evidence to support my belief in all these things – I have never encountered a ghost, nor an alien; I was once hypnotized by […]
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March 6, 2017
Music on the Mind
For many years, I prided myself on my musical knowledge. Not a Thursday night went by during the seventies and eighties when I was not glued to the television screen for Top of the Pops. I remember watching Pan’s People and dreaming of the day when I too might own a pair of glittery stretch […]
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Staying in Bed
I was lying in bed the other morning, scrolling through Facebook, reading the news, as the heat of the electric blanket seeped through my long white nightgown and warmed up my frozen feet. I posted something funny online, and The Chef wrote a message underneath. “I know where you are,” she said. “You’re lying in […]
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Anniversary
I wrote this a year ago today, on our anniversary. I am posting it again today, because it so perfectly describes our marriage, and I haven’t found better words than these. Eleven years ago, just after my first marriage ended, I picked up the phone and answered an ad for a tiny little rental cottage […]
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