Carpe Momento. Like discovering a tenner in my winter coat, I can’t quite believe my luck today. Checking clock, calendar and the view out of the window, it is true. The next 45 minutes can be mine alone… if I move fast. Go now. Turn the list face down, ignore the voice in my head. […]
100 words – The Queen
The Queen. I’d never met her, though she seemed like a nice old lady; the kind of granny who’d sneak you a toffee. Not any longer – she died today. Of course, there are more opinions about monarchy and history than years in her record-breaking reign. Right, wrong, royal? Who knows? But on my way […]
100 words – imposter syndrome
I cannot diagnose myself with imposter syndrome, because, in doing so, I would admit that I have, in fact, reach the criteria even if I can’t shift the sneaky sensation that I’ve misunderstood the vary nature of what we’re doing here. The reality is that if I say ‘that’s me, I have that thing where […]
100 words – listening to the news
I had the radio on all day and by the time I got to the afternoon bulletin I conceded, chucked the towel and quit. Gloomy, doomy booming on and on and on: inflation, strikes, women’s rights, politicians who lie, policemen who rape, flights don’t leave and guns kill people. Instead I walked in the woods […]
100 words – Summer in the north
Summer in the north. There’s a moment when the sun finally gets its hat out from behind the fat coats when we stand, dazzled and gaze at the bright. Oh, how lovely! And we peel off the layers to reveal naked skin, startled and smooth, like unshelling prawns. Toes and armpits and knees startlingly unclothed. […]