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It started as an ordinary afternoon

September 4, 2025 By Ellen

It was the middle of a very slow afternoon when she lined up the pens with the top of her keyboard and pushed back from the desk. Traffic flowed by the eight-storey glass and chrome office building. Lorries, bike couriers and pedestrians moving on, not stopping. Inside colleagues murmured, typed and sneaked glances at the […]

Filed Under: Creative Writing, other things I have learned Tagged With: falling, fiction, in the world, My Life, on my mind

This time last year…

December 3, 2020 By Ellen

  This time last year my house looked like this. Today I find myself doing yoga on my warm concrete floor and, from a downward dog, considering the fluff under the new sofa. Did I marvel at the progress and ponder the nature of patience? Nope, I wondered whether or not a robot vacuum cleaner […]

Filed Under: boys, other things I have learned Tagged With: Cumbria, decorating, home, house, in my life, move, on my mind

Reframing specs appeal

October 28, 2020 By Ellen

New glasses yesterday. They’re purple and I can see clearly* through them. (*insert music) It would be easy to write a(nother) post about how things change as time passes. You know? Night life is all about the right moment for giving in to the call of the PJs rather than the hall with the DJs. […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: advice, aging, creative writing, glasses, health, in my life, in the world, My Life, on my mind, Something happened in my life, specs

Learning to live: One wild and precious life

October 4, 2020 By Ellen

As if I wasn’t short of metaphor, it’s the morning after the deluge and the sun is glinting off rain-drenched fields… This is the scenery of my new outlook. I’m in my new place but, somehow, an essence of me hasn’t quite caught up with the packing boxes and postal redirect. I don’t, of course, mean […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: creative writing, health, humour, in my life, Learning to live, metaphor, navigation, on my mind, self care, Something happened in my life

Grip

July 22, 2020 By Ellen

The fact I’ve written something that looks like a poem doesn’t make me into a poet. Nope. It is only because I’m a woman with words inside her that won’t stop themselves trying to escape – however badly they manifest.   You don’t need to hold on so tight It’s true, your air-tight fist is […]

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