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What is a Blog?
We all live in our own bubble these days. The ads we see online are determined by an algorithm that knows what we like and shows us what we like. We no longer all watch the same TV programmes – there are so many channels and so many catch…
How Does Your Body Image Feel?
Body image. We’ve all got one. We’ve all got an image of what our body is like. Of how our body compares to the bodies of other people. Sometimes we compare our bodies to the bodies of people we don’t even know – people who we only see in…
Scaffolding, silverfish and sponges
I spent yesterday and the day before taking guided tours around East Riddlseden Hall, and talking to visitors about the conservation work that we do over the winter. More happens in the house when it’s closed than when it’s open!! As you…
Road trip
Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire. And back. A round trip of 464 miles in my lovely little black mini. 226 miles to my son’s, then back via my step-daughter’s and my…
Who Do I Think I Am?
I enjoy visiting old relatives. Really old relatives. Really, really old relatives. Over the last couple of days I’ve been visiting Peter Righton Atkinson, 1829 – 1888. He’s actually only a relative by marriage – he married my 2nd cousin 4…
Another one!!
I had a lovely birthday yesterday with my son, topped off with a rather pleasant Thai meal. Very many thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes!! And today – well, I’d like to think I don’t look a day over 59… I don’t feel 59. Or rather…
Remembrance Day
As you go through life, you accumulate dates. That’s dates in the diary, not blokes that you’re meeting for a drink – or even dried fruit that magically appears just before Christmas. Dates. To begin with, there’s only really one date that…
Roller coaster poster
It’s unbelievably six months since I started this blog. I started it four months after my husband left our marriage, as a way to start finding the answer to the question ‘What the hell happens next?’ Also – it’s cheaper than therapy!! We…
Back to Square One
My lodger has moved on. Just my luck – I’ve had two full months of pay from my ‘proper’ job, and three months’ worth of rent from the lodger, and I was just beginning to think I could relax a little. Silly me. And now I need to decide…
Just Vote
I know what I want the election result to be – but it’s not about me. It’s about democracy, and the will of the people. I don’t care who you vote for – I just want you to exercise your democratic right to vote. No, that’s not quite true –…
Supernumerary in the South Pacific – Papua New Guinea
We’d been at sea for 4 months now, give or take. We’d left the European Coast , we’d been through the Panama Canal , I’d jumped ship in Fiji , we’d docked at countless other islands large and small – and now we were heading for Papua New…
It’s not the Hip it’s the Hamstring
I went to the physio the other day, because of what I thought was a pain in my hip. He prodded and poked at it – until he got the desired result, which was basically me going ‘Yowwwcchhh!!’ when he hit the spot. Physiotherapists seem to…
