No way, what did you do? I love it there. I walked straight there from Jesmond and headed upstairs and sat in the navy gallery, the kids laughing through the doors and caught my breath! I also really love the permanent exhibition downstairs of Newcastle in the past. If you can get to the Baltic I'd highly recommend the Laura & Rachel Lancaster exhibition. I loved the paintings of women in their swimming costumes. There was such a beautiful energy to them.
Excited for you Harriet - here’s to your new chapter (pardon the pun)! 👏🙌 Our music tastes overlap once more btw: love that BNH album, was literally singing and playing that Norah Jones song a few days ago, and the Sundays’ song never ceases to melt my heart. X
Oh I’m so excited for you getting back to the writing desk!! I totally get the vulnerability - all aspects of it, but then there are the rewards… There are certainly challenges, but I absolutely love writing full time. And huge thank you for the Breaking Waves love - I was not expecting that when I started reading this piece 💕🙏
The rewards are there for sure. Last week felt like a muddle I couldn't think or move myself out of but this week feels different. I feel (whisper it) excited! And I thought of you this afternoon, I popped to the lido! It opened at the weekend so I went for a swim, a different kind of wild but still outdoor and not something I'd have thought have doing this time last year.
Wonderful. I might do a bit of lido swimming. My skin is reacting to the open water at the moment which is frustrating!! Glad the excitement is building 😍😍
I love that the idea of a quiet reinvention resonated Harriet. And I also hope you celebrate the way you consistently summon courage and make these changes in your days, your life. It's very inspirational from where I'm sitting xo
Ah thank you. You know I often think back to those journalling/writing sessions you did on Zoom. I think my intention in each one was to find more balance in my life, to flatten out the ups and downs, all the change until I realised that I think it's how I'm wired. Flattening it out is still an intention because otherwise my health isn't so good, but now I know this is how I am, I can embrace it.
Those paintings are just gorgeous, aren't they? I really need to spend more time with art and this has reminded me. I've loved your insights into life on the OB shop floor and the stories that being in that role allowed you to tell, but equally excited about the next chapter! Onwards. xx
Thank you! I loved that it was an exhibition for two sisters with different but complementary art forms. The painted women by the water really spoke to me, there was a quiet strength to them and the paintings. Gorgeous. I've met so many brilliant women in the past 18 months. There's one woman in particular that I'm drawing on for a short story I started the other night. She's a blend of all the fabulously complex, scared yet courageous women I've met.
Loved reading this. Fun fact, I used to work at the Laing Art Gallery!
No way, what did you do? I love it there. I walked straight there from Jesmond and headed upstairs and sat in the navy gallery, the kids laughing through the doors and caught my breath! I also really love the permanent exhibition downstairs of Newcastle in the past. If you can get to the Baltic I'd highly recommend the Laura & Rachel Lancaster exhibition. I loved the paintings of women in their swimming costumes. There was such a beautiful energy to them.
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So glad you are feeling good about this next step - and please take me to Newcastle some time x
You're on, the sun and blue sky helps but it's always good fun. It'll be a bit of a culture shock from Nervi 😂 but I think you'd love the Baltic.
Excited for you Harriet - here’s to your new chapter (pardon the pun)! 👏🙌 Our music tastes overlap once more btw: love that BNH album, was literally singing and playing that Norah Jones song a few days ago, and the Sundays’ song never ceases to melt my heart. X
Oh I’m so excited for you getting back to the writing desk!! I totally get the vulnerability - all aspects of it, but then there are the rewards… There are certainly challenges, but I absolutely love writing full time. And huge thank you for the Breaking Waves love - I was not expecting that when I started reading this piece 💕🙏
The rewards are there for sure. Last week felt like a muddle I couldn't think or move myself out of but this week feels different. I feel (whisper it) excited! And I thought of you this afternoon, I popped to the lido! It opened at the weekend so I went for a swim, a different kind of wild but still outdoor and not something I'd have thought have doing this time last year.
Wonderful. I might do a bit of lido swimming. My skin is reacting to the open water at the moment which is frustrating!! Glad the excitement is building 😍😍
This is exciting, Harriet! Love the idea of quiet reinventions, and ongoing (mini) revolutions in our lives. Well done.
Thank you Ann! Writing it all out helps so much and being able to share it with you all. It lightens the load hugely.
I love that the idea of a quiet reinvention resonated Harriet. And I also hope you celebrate the way you consistently summon courage and make these changes in your days, your life. It's very inspirational from where I'm sitting xo
Ah thank you. You know I often think back to those journalling/writing sessions you did on Zoom. I think my intention in each one was to find more balance in my life, to flatten out the ups and downs, all the change until I realised that I think it's how I'm wired. Flattening it out is still an intention because otherwise my health isn't so good, but now I know this is how I am, I can embrace it.
Those paintings are just gorgeous, aren't they? I really need to spend more time with art and this has reminded me. I've loved your insights into life on the OB shop floor and the stories that being in that role allowed you to tell, but equally excited about the next chapter! Onwards. xx
Thank you! I loved that it was an exhibition for two sisters with different but complementary art forms. The painted women by the water really spoke to me, there was a quiet strength to them and the paintings. Gorgeous. I've met so many brilliant women in the past 18 months. There's one woman in particular that I'm drawing on for a short story I started the other night. She's a blend of all the fabulously complex, scared yet courageous women I've met.