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Mysteries (unsolved) – 100 words

January 30, 2023 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Mysteries (unsolved) I found a pillowcase the other day it wasn’t mine, I’m certain. But, then again, my life is full of things I don’t recognise, I can’t work out, and I don’t remember, so I shouldn’t have been surprised. There’s the little blue dish with the dots (yellow), the other black walking jacket (size […]

Yeah, that went well…

October 26, 2020 By Ellen

All puffed-up with myself, I posted a couple of weeks ago about all the things I was going to do and how I’d blog about it all. Yeah. Well, I didn’t do any of it. What are you gonna do? If 2020 has been a bit of a wobbly ride for most people, I’ve added […]

14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

September 13, 2018 By Ellen

Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though). My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada. You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

How do you know when you’re happy?

November 4, 2012 By Ellen

Brighter ahead: The view from Chillout Scotland We all want to be happy. Right? Of course we do… but what exactly is happy and how do we know when we’ve got there?Is it about having a nice house, a nice spouse and nice children? It might, but, then again, I know a few people with all […]