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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Find inspiration, she said – 100 words

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Find inspiration, she said Hello! I don’t know what you look like. I’m over here. I can’t see you. Give me a sign. There. Did you get it? No, only a leaf tumbling, and some scampering. That was me. Show yourself. Are you a squirrel? No. Or only sometimes, then I’m a bird, or a […]

Are your pigtails crispy?

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Lacking inspiration, I turn to What3Words. It’s an app that has chopped the world into three-metre squares and given each square a randomly generated three-word label. It’s knowing where you are without squinting at OS maps and trying to decide how many tenths along the tiny box your pencil mark is. Knowing where you are […]

The Great City Swap – monkeying around in Edinburgh

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We did this in 2016, it’s time for a return visit to the zoo. It’s a refrain nearly as common as “muuuum, where is my….?” and it’s one that’s often harder to find an answer to. It’s this old chestnut: What are we going to do today? It’s particularly challenging in the Palace of Bundance because […]

Life is too short for making excuses

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Today began with the shocking news that a very lovely woman had died. I met her on my writing course and hoped that we could become friends. My heart aches and I struggle to understand how so much life could simply be gone – it must be unbearable for her family. However, I’m not going […]