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Ten Things of Thankful 131 (On the move) #10Thankful

So here we have what will likely be my quickest EVER Thankful post, because…I’m moving house tonight (Friday) and as I write, I am snuggled in bed, surrounded by boxes, bags, half-not-done-yet stuff, and an absolute JUMBLE of things to sort out, organise, and consider. I’m also due to go play netball (in Christmas hats)…

Dear me…

Dear me, Dear, oh dear, oh dearie me. Just look at the STATE of you! In a way I’m glad you’re so pliable and desperate to please, because it meant I get to come out of hiding and talk to you ‘out loud’ for a bit. But I’m never really hiding, am I? You always hear…

So who DID dunnit?

Catch part one of this tale FIRST The village hall was claustrophobic – or maybe just hell – with sweat-stained air and bodies pressed too tightly together. Angry voices rung out like cannon fire across the sea of people, their collective noise mixing with the salt tang to complete the backdrop to the perfect storm, which…

Ten Things of Thankful 130 (Holiday Hopes) #10Thankful

It’s the 11th of December as I write this, and I haven’t listened to Bach’s Christmas Music yet. For the first time in perhaps all of my 32 years, I’ve not heard the rich timpani of ‘Tonet ihr pauken‘ and lost myself in the genius of the most perfect Christmas music of all time, as…

A whodunnit

It was a ‘whodunnit’ of Hercule-Poirot-ean proportions, but viler and more violent than Ms Christie tended to write. As a rapid response paramedic, Tom was used to seeing the gore and guts of a situation gone badly awry, and was even used to milling around with the ‘boys in blue’ (black, these days, with luminous…

Ten Things of Thankful 129 (on kindness) #10Thankful

I was hugely challenged this week, by a status update on Facebook by Galit Breen, who offered the opportunity to participate in a giveaway in exchange for people sharing the last time they did something kind. To my chagrin I couldn’t think of anything I’d done which was worthy of having a place in her…

I burn for you

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn Except you’re not, cos you’re here with me in the smoky dark, At this uncharted turn, and what comes next, we can never know All of the things I thought I knew, were never so Very complicated as this, which maybe goes to show This fiery life…

Ten Things of Thankful 128 #10Thankful

Last time I wrote, I told you I was on the move, and so I am. Things are changing around here, and whilst I’m astonished at the propensity of ‘achievement’ to look like ‘mess’, I am very pleased that there *is* movement, and things are getting done. Because often, lately, it’s felt like I’ve made…

Salt Tears and Steel Toe Caps

The other night I got glared at and kicked right in the needy. It was all metaphorical, though the love with which the kick was aimed, was very real. And sometimes I need that kind of rough-and-ready reality check, particularly at the moment. The kick came when I was late to bed (again, or, as…

Ten Things of Thankful 127 (On Labels) #10Thankful

I’m not sure how many days or weeks ago it was, but my dear Sparkly One, Ra, wrote about how she likes to get everyone celebrating international label day on the 21st of November. I thought I’d join in, and sent her a pic of me being silly, with a flower in my hair, lots…