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Mindset – 100 words

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Mindset   I’m done with making peace:   with seeing rainbows in the oily scum of dish water with the scented softness of tumble dryer fluff in the symmetry of a spreadsheet in the swooping freedom city canyon seagulls viewed from a fifth floor office   Instead: I want the uneven paths and wind blasted […]

Things we learned from a brief trip to Aviemore

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The weekend before last saw Boy Three and I off on a micro adventure and it was educational. Time is not a fixed thing. Once you start thinking about time as a linear, measurable thing, that’s when the trouble starts. You think it’s all neatly split up into seconds, days and minutes. Then, suddenly, you […]

On getting dressed in the dark, sexual confusion and hair washing – things I’ve learned lately

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It’s a huge relief, I must say, to have let myself off the hook and returned to little trivial blog posts like this – but with a structure. You should try it. I could include that as a learning, couldn’t I? Make some rules for yourself, then keep them. But, actually, that’s not really healthy, […]

Things I learned from an all-inclusive holiday

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You know that really annoying advert about ‘going mahoosive’ on an all-inclusive? Yeah. I went on one though I failed to discover what mahoosive is or how to do it, I did learn a few things. This year, Boys One and Two were off with their father leaving Boy Three, The Panther and I to […]

Go Ape Aberfoyle: Hanging around in the trees

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“Go Ape,” the signs urge all the way through sleepy Aberfoyle on a slightly damp Sunday morning. It’s hard to imagine the crimplened coach passengers (the only others on the main road at the time) going even a very little bit monkey.    Pondering this we – Boys One, Two and I, arrived at beautiful […]