In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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Totally Tartan, a thank you post

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My mate Julie makes these fantastic cushions, blankets, door stops and draft excluders. Her business is called Totally Tartan. She also has two little boys – slightly bigger than my Boy Three yet smaller than Boys One and Two. When Boy One was born she made him a funky fleece blanket with his name on […]

What will they say about me when I’m dead?

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This year I’ve already been to two funerals and I sincerely hope that the almost one a week pace is not going to continue. Both of the funerals were for people around my age who leave dozens and dozens of bereft family and friends. For both there was music – Pearl’s A Singer and Tom […]

Finding positivity in the face of more exits than entrances

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Generally, in both blogland and the real world, I try to adopt a position of merciless positivity. I am convinced there is a silver lining under every cloud even if it’s of the what-doesn’t-bust-you.. variety. Lately, though, we seem to have been surrounded by more cruel coincidences than seems right by anyone’s measure. I hasten […]

What are your daily essentials?

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We all know we’re supposed to have five portions of fruit and veg every day. Most of us don’t and manage to mosey along without too much difficulty. I wrote a post yesterday for Ready for Ten about the prospect of libraries closing and how tragic that will be for our children – and their […]