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Diving into the past…

November 12, 2020 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Oddly, when I don’t blog about things, it’s as if they didn’t really happen. It’s the old tree falling in the forest thing. If there’s no one to listen, what’s the point? Boy Three and I are stuck at home. He’s isolating because a classroom assistant has tested positive. (Won’t it be marvelous one day […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: covid, Frenchfield, My Life, Penrith, photo

The tooth, the (no longer) whole tooth…

September 13, 2020 By Ellen 2 Comments

There’s a sort of ‘finding’ feeling at the moment. Finding my way home, finding my way around, and finding myself again. All of which sounds a bit navel gazey, but suggests there might be a little more time in my life for gazing in general. Which is a good thing. Meanwhile… What’s that? Oh yes, […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: Booths, Christmas, Cumbria, dentist, feeling, house, new life, newbuild, Pennines, photos, tooth

Returning home and starting again

September 6, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

“You know, you look just like your dad,” she said. “Not your mum, your dad. It’s the shape of your face.” A harmless enough comment, you’d have thought. But then my dad died 13 years ago, and it’s been much longer than that since I regularly bumped into (non-family) people who knew him. And I […]

Filed Under: family, other things I have learned Tagged With: Beatrix Potter, Cumbria, Cumbrian, dialect, Domino's, home, pizza, rabbits, Simon Rogan

House-Moving by Len Webster

August 16, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

Set in a line like soldiers firing, The books I love but never read wait For their departure, glaring down at Me from the shelves where dust will soon be Unveiled, leaving silent shadows for Destruction by the softest weapon. I don’t have time to write my own poem about the moving. I’m too busy […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: change, emotion, Len Webster, moving, poetry

More questions than answers, history and things I noticed

August 2, 2020 By Ellen Leave a Comment

There’s an ‘end of’ feeling about matters here at the Palace of Bundance. And not before time on many fronts… In the absence of a proper post, here’s more from the the latest batch of photos. Owners of large goldfish must swallow their disappointment. I stumbled on this small ad this week. It should have […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: Clyde, Clyde Coastal Path, more questions than answers, Ranfurly Hotel, small ads, Timber Ponds

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