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A Certain Age
How old are you? And do you tell people? Time was, a woman simply wasn’t expected to admit to her age. Admit. An interesting choice of word – we also admit to mistakes and we admit to being wrong. Are we expected to feel guilty for getting…
Me Day
Yesterday, it was one year since my husband told me he was leaving. It’s been a very quick year. It was a pretty ordinary day – I took the car for its service, bought some milk on the way back home, spent the morning hoovering, did some…
One year on – what I’ve learnt
That was a quick year. It will be one year ago tomorrow since my husband told me he was leaving. Was that the end of something? Or the beginning? It felt like the end, to begin with. There was the initial shock of course, but then the…
Hell on Earth
I really wanted to write something about the fires in Australia. But there are no words. There is extreme frustration – now can we accept that climate change is a thing and we really really need to do something about it? There is extreme…
Shopping for One – 7 thoughts
Back to normal after the jollifications. It’s quite nice to get back to some ordinary food!! Today I’ll be doing my first weekly shop of 2020. I’ve been ‘ husbanding my resources ’ since my husband left – but shopping and cooking for one…
New Year Newbies
It’s New Year!! Happy 2020 to you all. Starting around about now the gym will be packed out with New Year Newbies, January Gym-ers – the people whose New Year’s resolutions included, ‘I must get fitter and lose some weight’. Those of us…
4 Resolutions for 2020
New Year’s resolutions – do you make them? Do you keep them? Here are mine – not terribly deep and meaningful, just a middle-aged woman who happens to be free and single, making a few promises to herself. I have no idea if I’ll keep them –…
So That was Christmas
The first Christmas since my husband left. I wondered how I’d feel about it all, and it turns out it was OK. But still, I’m pleased it’s over with. I really didn’t know how I’d feel about Christmas without him. He’d never particularly…
So This is Christmas
I have mixed feelings. I don’t believe in God, so why do I even do it? I don’t like the commercialisation, the pressure it puts on people to spend more than they really want to. I don’t like the other pressures – the ones it puts on…
Supernumerary at Sea – Heading Home 2
We’d started in Hull , headed across the Atlantic to the Panama Canal, through the Pacific to Tahiti , Fiji , New Caledonia, New Britain, the Solomon Islands and finally Papua New Guinea . Leaving PNG we continued west – across the Indian…
What are you doing for Christmas?
This year I’ll be spending the day with my parents, which will be quiet but pleasant. But is being on your own for Christmas as bad as the media would have us believe? I really don’t know – but until I got the invite, I thought I probably…
A Skeleton in the Cupboard
I’ve got 11,249 relatives. I’ve been researching my family history for quite a while now . One of the reasons we do it is to find the skeletons – we all like a bit of gossip, even if it’s 200 year old gossip!! So – this is the story of one…
