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The trouble with time

February 16, 2020 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Days By Philip Larkin What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields. It’s fair to […]

On time: a post that gets dark quite quickly

January 26, 2020 By Ellen 1 Comment

I feel such a sense of loss when I think of the great, unwritten poems that took a backseat to polished floors – Brigid Schulte There’s an essay doing the rounds, it’s called A Woman’s Greatest Enemy? A Lack Of Time For Herself and it’s by Brigid Schulte. It took me days to find the […]

Tick tock – have we got time for another ride at the fairground

July 18, 2018 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Written three years ago and – whoosh – that time has gone in a flash. How many years did you spend watching the clock? Tick tock. Waiting for school to finish… today, this week, forever. When I’m older I can… drive, stay out all night, eat as much chocolate as I like, all at once, […]

Why would you want to turn back time?

January 30, 2016 By Ellen Leave a Comment

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 […]