Archive - Gently Does It

How do you want to feel in 2025?

Same same but different is the phrase that springs to my mind. Words borrowed from a tapas bar in Bath that feel bang on for the first week of this…

Jan 10

December 2024

November 2024

October 2024

Help, the dog's stuck in the tarn

On Bella the 13 year old labrador getting stuck (and rescued) from the water, calling out the fire brigade and sticking to my writing streak.

Oct 25, 2024 •

'But Victoria Sponges are Wednesday afternoon cakes'

It wasn't the response I was hoping for after whipping up a Victoria Sponge one Saturday afternoon a year or so ago, but I understood what my teenager…

Oct 18, 2024 •

My next home will have dark green shutters

Shutters that lie against sun bleached terracotta painted walls. It'll sit amongst other apricot and pistachio green buildings, a stones throw from a…

Oct 11, 2024 •

September 2024

Unexpected layers of emotion

Our seventh Ilkley-versary, dropping the middle child off in Cardiff and dad's ninth anniversary. It's been an interesting week or so round these parts…

Sep 30, 2024 •

Lessons in love and other eighties musical confessions

From Level 42 to Curiosity killed the Cat, the Eurythmics and Wham! The musical rabbit hole is my favourite kind of writing rabbit hole to fall down.

Sep 20, 2024 •

You're not half bad...

Greetings from the sofa in my kitchen this mid-September Friday afternoon. It’s been a chilly day softened by the welcome appearance of clear blue sky…

Sep 13, 2024 •

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