Cathy Cade's Blog: Writing Wrinkles, page 21

Slip-up

What to do when you can’t think what to write about… Post a poem 🙂 This one was written to the prompt Slip for the ‘Twelve Poems in Twelve Months challenge at https://deadlinesforwriters.com/. One of my rare attempts at blank verse. ~ ~ ~ Slip-up I slip in with the neighbours. Bill spots me there … Continue reading Slip-up

Colour Me Faded

### Back in my early forties, when I worked in London’s Bunhill Row, I signed up for a Colour Me Beautiful course that was running in the nearby Bishopsgate Institute during my lunch break. (Other colour consultants are probably available.) At the first session, the consultant introduced the course and held up a coloured scarf … Continue reading Colour Me Faded

Fashion?

Who remembers fashion in the nineteen-sixties and seventies, when it seemed that whatever the fashion gurus told you was ‘in’ was what you had to wear to be ‘with it’? Or was that just me being young and easily-fooled? It seemed to me, that by the time my own kids were teenagers they wore whatever … Continue reading Fashion?

The Camino Santiago – The Way of St James

My youngest daughter has just returned from a 780km walk across Spain. Read about it on her blog at… http://www.mycancerand.me/camino-sant... ### ### (By the way, Jen was diagnosed with dyslexia when due to sit her GCSEs at 15… Setbacks? hurdles? …not a problem.)

Living on Less

As a teenager, I recall my mum complaining when the cost of petrol went up from 4 shillings and fourpence per gallon in the late sixties and later swearing to give up beef when it threatened to approach £1 per lb. In the eighties we were paying 15% interest on our mortgage and I wasn’t … Continue reading Living on Less

What Every Vacuum Cleaner Salesman Knows

Recently I read, or heard (sorry, can’t recall where; I think it was on TV) that every vacuum cleaner salesman knows if (s)he demonstrates their cleaner (or, in fact, any cleaner) on a newly-vacuumed carpet, it will bring up more muck. I thought I would try this for myself in our living room. I planned … Continue reading What Every Vacuum Cleaner Salesman Knows

Giraffe Stance

Be warned… giraffe stance will not enable you to paint your toenails. ### The truth is, I no longer know what I can do until I try it and find I can’t. Cutting toenails on my right foot, for instance… and varnishing them. The doctor on the phone asked if I could bring my right … Continue reading Giraffe Stance

Pondkeeping

I just had a minor panic when I went to feed the fish and the pond was practically empty. The fish were huddled over the pump in the bottom well of the pond. Had I left it until I came back from shopping the water would have gone and the pump would have cut out … Continue reading Pondkeeping

Making Amends

For those outside the UK who asked, here is my story recently published in The People’s Friend. These knitting needles had an agenda of their own. They were of a length my gran would have branded “pickle-stabbers” and Sandy used to say my ten thumbs weren’t safe in charge of a cocktail stick. The memory … Continue reading Making Amends

Buttons

No, not about Cindy-Ella’s dog in my book The Godmother (shameless plug). This post is about the kind of buttons that fasten up through buttonholes (or not). ### Why do duvet covers have to have all those buttons that take forever to do up (when you’re already shattered from stuffing the duvet into the thing)? … Continue reading Buttons