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Mysteries (unsolved) – 100 words

January 30, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Mysteries (unsolved) I found a pillowcase the other day it wasn’t mine, I’m certain. But, then again, my life is full of things I don’t recognise, I can’t work out, and I don’t remember, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. There’s the little blue dish with the dots (yellow), the other black walking jacket (size […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, life, mysteries

Heavy sh*t – 100 words

January 29, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Heavy sh*t Among the many lies they tell to women is the one that says they shouldn’t lift heavy things. Not sacks of potatoes, gigantic rocks nor over-stuffed suitcases and certainly not weights, on a bar, in a gym. That’s dangerous, stick to the tiny pink dumbbells. Look out! Don’t try weights! Your muscles will […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, feminist, Fitness, weights, women

Daily gratitude – 100 words

January 28, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Daily gratitude I am lucky to have a dishwasher that is resilient and German. I am lucky to have cheese and an oven that creates adhesion beyond engineers’ ingenuity. I am lucky to have options: gin, coffee, juice necessitating different receptacles. I am lucky to have shelves upon which, repeatedly, to put mugs and glasses. […]

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Administration – 100 words

January 27, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Administration It’s not the numbers that chill – they’re too big to make sense. Nor the screamed imaginings when you stand in these places, skin prickling. Not the pitifully twisted spectacles, nor shoes’ polished leather worn soft over bunions. Not dead smile denture mountain. Not returning birds’ lament for the lost. They aren’t the worst. […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, Auschwitz, holocaust memorial day

Harbingers – 100 words

January 26, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Harbingers Every year they come: tender white heads peeping from green swaddling. Vulnerable necks. They tell us it’s true: months of winter waiting is worth it. Buds and blossom and bloody dandelions will follow, with blooming certainty. We’ve made it through the darkest. Head cocked in the dawn – listening to creatures waking, rustling and […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, snowdrops, spring

Haggis – 100 words

January 25, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Haggis Take entrails of a sheep, add spice and stuff them into the animal’s dead stomach. Boil for hours. Stab it open with a knife taken from a live man’s sock. It’s a special occasion. The improbably delicacy will be lubricated by whisky and poetry and friendship at thousands of tables in dozens of countries […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, Burns Supper, Friendship, Haggis, Robert Burns

Experiential learning – 100 words

January 24, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Experiential learning I wash the clothes and fold them, neat dried. A deep inhale of breeze perfume or artificial flowers – mothers’ meditation. I will no longer pick socks and pants and shirts and pyjamas and jeans and towels off the floor. Especially towels. This you know. Bring them – it’s not far, a moment’s […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, family life, laundry

A kitchen conversation – 100 words

January 23, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

A kitchen conversation What do I fancy? Cheese on toast that meltingly enveloping comfort. Ice cream bracingly headachy cold turning to creamy sweet. Bacon strong saltiness and fearless consumption of fat. Toast and jam crunchy, sticky, childish comfort especially dripping butter and cut into triangles. Biscuits oh, the siren call of the Hobnob illicit, delicious […]

Filed Under: 365, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, food, greed, secrets

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