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Ten Things of Thankful 137 (On time…) #10Thankful

I’m at the table in the breakfast room, freshly washed and pyjama-d. It’s Thursday evening as I write this, and I’m calm, which is truly delightful. This time last trip, I was stuck, panicking, blowing grape-flavored* Hubba-Bubba-Tantrum-Bubbles, wrapped in my kaftan, being talked through the process by my wonderful amazing BlogWife, Beth. “Just do the…

WHAT have you gone and dunnit?

“No, I’m home and safe now,” Tom told his Grandma. “They didn’t keep me in, and from their questions, I don’t think they think I’m involved, but Grandma, Grandma…I’m so worried about you, and everyone in the village, WHY are you all so mutinous about this – why are you all so determined to carry the…

Read me…

Read me… The silent plea of every writer who puts words to page, whether in ink or pixels. Read me… I wasn’t going to write, or, rather, I intended to write something else, then found myself distracted by the idea put forth that all of us here, write to be read. Yes, to an extent we…

Ten Things of Thankful 136 (in small moments) #10Thankful

For no other reason than I seem to have had a plethora of them this week, I’m going to offer up small moments of great beauty or poignancy, which I took time to appreciate this week. I think in the grander scheme of things, we’re all so busy rushing around trying to get everything done (I…

And what had the VICTIM dunnit?

“If I were a crayon? What the actual…it *really* says that?!” DCI Lucas rolled his eyes to the heavens as the voice at the other end of the phone answered with a long affirmative. A letter, found buried in the bottom of the paper recycling bin at one of the older residents’ houses suggested the victim had…

I need you to know this…

So many of you have been joining in with the #LoveWins hashtag, which I found and loved and shook around my portion of the Blogosphere like glitter. I *adore* how it’s been adopted as a shout for love, for hope, for triumph…and I want to tell you a bit more about why I think it…

The Village needs Forgiveness (a #1000Speak post)

Occasionally, in the Blogosphere, a spate of posts will crop up across the place – letters to my former self – and my heart jumps into my mouth as I begin to panic that someone might tag me to write one. But things seem to be falling into disconcerting place, and I feel I may…

Ten Things of Thankful 135 (Looking Forward) #10Thankful

In the beginning – the VERY beginning – the Ten Things of Thankful were used as justification to continue to the next day. I was in my late teens, coming gradually out of the darkness and misery of bullying and abuse from what felt like all corners (in reality it was only home and school,…

HOW did they dunnit?

“What do you mean, they all tested positive for blood spatter? Every single one…even the children? Why are the patterns inconsistent with the murder…and where the HELL is whatever weapon was used to cut him in two?” With the phone held tight between his ear and shoulder, Detective Chief Inspector Lucas closed his eyes and massaged his…

Frozen

That I’ve spent the last ten minutes staring into space wondering whether to title this post ‘So…this is progress’ or ‘Woefully inadequate’ should give you some idea of my frame of mind. That I’ve spent the last 20 minutes wondering aloud whether to write (because I want to) or go to bed (because it’s late,…