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Healing – 100 words

April 26, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Healing. Sometimes when dramas and other people’s lost possession distract from tending the broken parts, things change. You, check, fleeting to find that new skin is fresh and pinkly smooth. Fine, that’s that, you say. And go about infatuations and reactions, habits clunking into place – a solid construction. Moving forward. But under the carapace […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, healing, spring

Summer clothes – 100 words

April 24, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Summer clothes. Dawn, high blue and clear. Warm through double glazing. A day to get the boxes down from the top shelf. Hello linen, shirts with no sleeves. Sandal cages for naked toes. Dresses I didn’t wear last year, or the one before. Shorts. Espadrilles. Capris. Flip-flops. Even the names glisten in the sun. The […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, season, spring, summer clothes, sunshine

Beinn na Lap – 100 words

April 24, 2022 By Ellen 2 Comments

Beinn na Lap. My friend climbed a mountain last week. Not any mountain. The 282nd on a big list of scary spikey hills, boggy heaths, rattling tents, pork pies, snow caps, long trudges in… and out again, courages plucked, deep conversations, cloud inversions, midge bites, friends made and views. Bloody marvellous views. One time she […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: 100words, bagging, Corrour, Fionaoutdoors, Munro, walking

Practical Ways To Tone Your Body Without The Gym

April 21, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Of course, not everybody will be able to nail that perfect hourglass figure and beauty standards the media portrays. But it is always possible to give your body just the right amount of toning to make you admire yourself in the mirror. You cannot ignore the role exercise plays in giving your body great contours. […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: diet, exercise, gym, surgery, toning

How To Stop Your Home Feeling Like A Fishbowl

April 6, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Tired of always feeling like you’re being watched by neighbours and passers-by? It’s important to feel that you have some privacy in your home and that you’re not constantly being spied on by others. Unfortunately, due to the location and structure of some homes, it can be very difficult to maintain this privacy. Fortunately, there […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: curtains, home, privacy, window

Dust If You Must

April 1, 2022 By Ellen 1 Comment

Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better To paint a picture or write a letter, Bake a cake or plant a seed, Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,  With rivers to swim and mountains to climb, Music to hear, and books to read,  […]

Filed Under: Dust if you must. Rose Milliagan. Poem. Tagged With: futile, housework, poem

Home Cleaning 101: A Guide For Homeowners

April 1, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

If you’re like most homeowners, keeping your home clean and tidy is a never-ending battle. It seems like there’s always something that needs to be done – sweeping the floors, vacuuming the carpets, dusting the furniture, scrubbing the bathroom tiles; the list goes on and on. But don’t despair! There is hope. With a bit […]

Filed Under: review Tagged With: cleaning, domestic, house

100 words on swimming

March 20, 2022 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Swimming – This weekend, I became one of those women who posts photos of themselves wading into icy water wearing a bobble hat. In the dark, under the fattest, glow-in-the-dark biscuit of a moon, you couldn’t see the goose flesh as the slick cold inched upwards. And upwards. Unbearable, exquisite, until, suddenly… Oh, I can […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, creative writing, full moon swimming, night swimming., swimming, wild swimming

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