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Why would you want to turn back time?

January 30, 2016 By Ellen

wrinkled apple

We’re used to outlandish claims from the beauty industry, and of them making up problems and products to fix them. So many cosmetics companies (or, at least, their marketing chaps) like to suggest that their overpriced unguents will turn back time. Time travel, if you will, to younger days. Like a Tardis, I suppose, in […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: ageing, aging, beauty, Cher, humour, Sexism, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, time

Matcha of the day – the perils of trendy porridge

January 29, 2016 By Ellen

matcha tea

I’m doing a bit more commuting these days – to Edinburgh twice a week, since you ask. The plan is to use all that lovely sitting down, wified time to get writing. I’ve even bought a fold-up keyboard to use with my iPad. So I’m ready, really ready. No excuses. And… Not gazing through the […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned Tagged With: breakfast, Glasgow, humour, matcha, My Life, phlegm, porridge, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, working

In defence of Donald Trump (sort of)

December 15, 2015 By Ellen

Donald Trump

Got you. Of course, I’m not supporting anything the nylon-haired loon says. He’s loathsome. Bigoted, sexist, homophobic and probably nasty to animals too. No redeeming features. I am, however, supporting his right to voice his (cretinous) opinions. And to do it in this country where, if he oversteps the mark, there is legislation. We’re not […]

Filed Under: review, Uncategorized Tagged With: justice, on my mind, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, The World

In which I forgot to go to yoga

November 15, 2015 By Ellen

On Thursday night I forgot to go to yoga. It had been on my mind all day. Or at least all day, right up until about ten minutes before I had to put on the comfy stuff and collect my mat. About half an hour later, I was picking up clothes (which I do so […]

Filed Under: blogging, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: boys, busy weekend, family, humour, in the world, My Life, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, yoga

Auschwitz: unequal to the task

October 27, 2015 By Ellen

This weekend we travelled to Poland and visited Auschwitz and Birkenau. I called this post unequal to the task because there’s nothing I can say about the place and what happened there that would come anywhere near doing it justice. But the camp was – horrifically – equal to its hellish task. Astonishingly so. 1.3 […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: Auschwitz, Birkenau, concentration camp, education, gratitude, horror, in the world, My Life, Nazi, Poland, Something happened in my life, something happened in my world, The World, travel

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