Park life Have you noticed that parking spaces have got thinner? Years ago, I’d zoom straight in dead centre, first time. No need for experimental door pushing – fingers round the end – or visions of dented Telsa sides. Even the tricky corner slots: nip in – mirror, signal, manoeuvre – slickly, unhindered by a […]
How To Improve Your Posture For The Better
Posture is something that in our old age, we could be cursing our younger selves, for not taking seriously enough. It’s easy to have bad posture and there are many areas of life where we only make that posture worse. Improving your posture can be done with a number of changes that are small […]
A morning’s work – 100 words
A morning’s work Me: Two coffees morning work all well She: Garden patrol what’s this? Gate’s different must investigate Me: Sun dazzling, adjust desk Productivity She: Bold explorer. Queen of the highway. Following my nose see where it goes. Me: Well, look at me spreadsheeting proficiently She: Well, look at […]
Worry – 100 words
Worry When the sun shines, there’s a green-faced troll sitting on a rock. He scowls and growls and glares at me. Skin prickles and I know he’s looking and reaching… twisted fingers for me. Sticky orange eyes, like see-through scabs, promise pain and misery. So, I am surprised that when I do talk to my […]
Delilah – 100 words
Delilah Once upon a time there were stories about women who pined and sighed and sat about in big pants drinking gin. If only, they wailed, he would come and rescue me from this life of solitude. Because a man is what I need to complete me and bring me socks to wash. Then one […]
Therapy or selfcare – 100 words
Therapy or selfcare One of them makes you cry, the other smells of roses One of them is an unscheduled trip to a strange new country, the other guarantees great views One of them is all the ways you were wrong, the other feels oh so smug One of them accepts your catastrophic cock-ups, the […]
Snow Moon – 100 words
Snow Moon A bright springward afternoon – cirrus fringes the blue. Snowdrops nod benign. Sunshine seduces – a facsimile of kindness. Walkers pocket gloves, loosen scarves. They sit on benches and smile – trusting season’s end. There’s a sigh as the day slides away and horizon bleeds pink to orange. And shadows exhale biting cold. […]
Cinderella – The Sequel – 100 words
Cinderella – The Sequel Was that the Amazon guy again? More shoes? The box is from GlassSlippers.com – again. Cinders, you can’t keep buying more. There’s nowhere to put them. We haven’t danced for years since the ball room filled with footwear. It has to stop. Your godmother won’t help after she enchanted the planning […]