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Life after Lockdown – The Holiday Part 2
A Five-Part Holiday needs a Two-Part homecoming. Here’s Part One. And here’s Part Two – What We Did After Our Holidays Part 2 – by 67 and Stopped Counting We are back! Our journey home was not too bad, just a little stressful with a lot of…
Life after Lockdown – The Tutor
With tutoring still not happening, our tutor is using his creative skills to great effect with other projects. You can read his original ‘Life under Lockdown’ post here . All Day to Fill – by Howard Carlisle What to do today? At first,…
Life after Lockdown – The Funeral Celebrant
Still not something we like to think about – but we really should. The Thanatologist’s previous post (‘The Memory Lives Forever’) is here . Less Can be More – by the Thanatologist When I wrote my last guest post for this blog, I was…
Life after Lockdown – The Holiday Part 1
The first of my lovely Guest Bloggers – the long-awaited Holiday Update!! You can read the start of the story here . What We Did AFTER Our Holiday – by 67 and Stopped Counting I am writing this from my lounge in lovely West Yorkshire…
Where do you draw your line?
Have you got your hair appointment booked? Will you be out (‘Out out’) on Saturday night? Are you looking forward to going for a coffee? Is it really over, are we really getting back to normal, starting tomorrow? Or are we all just being…
The Second Half
Well, that’s the first half of 2020 over with. It’s been a hell of a year so far. It’s kind of taken me by surprise, that we’re so far through the year. I think it’s because I feel everything has been in some sort of suspended animation…
The Worst of Both Worlds
The gym I go to had to close due to the pandemic. But it was OK, because I was doing so much walking (6 – 8 miles a day) and lifting (25kg sacks of cement, concrete, sand) at work that I was getting fitter and stronger by the day. I must…
Hayfever
I was told, aged 11, that I would grow out of it. Here I am, aged 59 ½, sniffling and snuffling with the best of them. To be fair, it’s not nearly as bad as it used to be – I used to be a mess of itchiness (the eyes! the throat!), sneezes…
Another To Do List
Another week off work. This, of course, was the week I should have been in Naples. Never mind. This is now the week in which I’m ticking off yet more of my to do list. The plan goes like this – Go for a proper long walk – nope, not yet. If…
Still Owning the Space
A year ago I wrote about ‘ Owning the Space ’. Time for a recap about how that’s going. The garage had always been my husband’s space, and once he’d moved out it was very empty. It still is very empty!! I finally managed to paint the floor…
Visiting the Family (Tree)
I have 12,700 relatives, all over the world – Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, as well as England and Scotland (so basically, come to think of it, just the post-colonial white English-speaking world). Have you ever thought about…
Naples – The Holiday That Didn’t Happen
Tomorrow I should have been packing to go on my holiday to Naples . Ah well. Ain’t gonna happen. I’m not the only person whose holiday plans have been thwarted. Maybe next year. Maybe. But the thing is, this trip to Naples was symbolic for…
