Rough and the smooth What the internet thinks I’m interested in are easy methods to remove extra hair from my limbs and other places. They won’t work: rogue hair management is a woman’s penance to be paid unless she can stand hirsute and proud – I’m a feminist, stroke my pelt. This is certainly what […]
Discrepancy – 100 words
Discrepancy One day I learned that my husband had been gay all along so when he said ‘I do’ what he really meant was ‘You’ll do to hide behind’. I know it wouldn’t be nice to be out in 1992 when even Elton’s closet had just closed behind him. But imagine how it felt to […]
Talking posh – 100 words
Talking posh If you’ve ever cast off and set sail, you will not be taken aback to learn it’s above board to claim a landlubber’s language is chock-a-block with gifts from an old salt. You can tell from cut of this tar’s jib that he needs a wide berth and won’t toe the line. A […]
Unboxing – 100 words
Unboxing A toy, a gadget or a gizmo is often unwrapped and every entirely predictable moment of removing the expensive trinket from its unnecessary packaging is oohed ahhed – and even filmed – until you find in your hand a naked electronic device and not the joy you were seeking. I want an unboxing revolution: […]
Lovely, thanks for asking – 100 words
Lovely, thanks for asking The first day back and the inbox is full – 450 messages – some with attachments that apparently need attention. Stroppy red ticks What if I dump the lot in the tiny little bin? Meetings have appeared in the calendar on the laptop I shut more than a week ago. Out […]
Once girl – 100 words
Once girl I caught sight of an old friend today. She’s young: a lot younger than me, obviously and so full of fire, it blazes obstacles out of her way. She’s not scared of failing or getting hurt again. She tumbles into love and back out – more often than the world thinks proper. She […]
Mad dogs – 100 words
Mad dogs We heeded and now wouldn’t dream of giving the SPF a miss ‘Do my back’ Then flat out, limbs strategically arranged for even UV and welcome the warmth seeping through protective epidermis into bone marrow and weighing it down which is odd as we think golden skin somehow looks slimmer but hot heaviness […]
Beads of joy – 100 words
Beads of joy When you died it was hard to see anything for the tears – not growing up, nor adventures. Only a bleak road ahead: Diminished, downcast. Without you in it and full of hard rocks and other painful surprises. I didn’t notice when it happened, but now, over my shoulder there are glints: […]