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Living a gentle life

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…
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Are we nearly there yet?
In search of comfort, joy and a little silence...
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Sliding into the end of the year, slowly
Whilst remembering to keep a cool head and warm heart.
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Yours in companionable silence
Other than the sound of my hand moving the pencil across the page.
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Nine years later...
On remembering that life builds around the loss and that feelings will continue to ebb and flow.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Writing sprints, denim creations and making wonky progress
Making the most of the 19-year old and his mischief and mayhem, tomfoolery and shenanigans and worldly wisdom before he leaves us for Freshers Week.
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An unconventional packing list
‘I've got nineteen books and those piles of CDs; but what about my 3D printer? And my crochet & Rubik's cubes?’ said the 19-year-old when I asked him…
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All hail the empty nesters and the almost empty nesters
I wished I’d known how unsettling and jangly this phase of parenthood is because I’d have taken far greater care of the friends and family who were…
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