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Put the kettle on
Yes, baby has arrived !! Fabulous news, and I want to share every detail with you. But – I won’t. Sorry. When I started this blog I made a decision that other people’s stories weren’t mine to tell – so I won’t be giving you a blow-by-blow…
My Treat
I’m economising extremely , so treats are almost non-existent. Almost – but not completely. When I was working out my budget back in February, when my husband had just left, I realised that it would be unsustainable if it didn’t include…
It Tastes Just Like Butter
I mentioned in a previous post ( ‘Bunnies, ducklings, and sensible shoes’ ) that I volunteer with the National Trust (other heritage charities are available). For those of you not based in the UK (and there’s an increasing number of you –…
Only the Lonely
When Solitaire’s the only game in town… The other day, someone asked me if I was lonely. Well, what they actually said was, ‘You must be lonely’. I guess they meant to add ‘in view of the fact that your husband walked away from the…
Owning the space
My sunny spot – my happy place Furniture. All those bits and pieces we gather around us. We buy it, we’re given it, we inherit it. Sometimes we’re hard put to say where it’s actually come from, or when we actually got it – it’s just there,…
For the love of bugs
My bug hotel, lurking in the long grass This is my 7th garden. Some north, some south, some big, some small, and one that was basically tundra with a wall around it. My current one is tiny. There are advantages to this – mowing the lawn…
Out of sight, out of mind
Until recently I didn’t particularly think about plastic waste. Did any of us, really? As a good citizen, I put my plastic waste into my recycling bin, and it was emptied every other week, and so my plastic might have been out of sight and…
Please wait here
Grandchild #4 is due, well – now, basically. Want to wait with me? Four grandkids. Wow. I have a 10 year old, and then after a big gap they seem to be coming along quite regularly – a two year old, a one year old, and a very-nearly-here.…
Bunnies, ducklings and sensible shoes
There are FIVE ducklings under there somewhere!! With all the talk in my last post about what exactly middle-age is – and what it’s not – I wanted to tell you about my work as a National Trust volunteer… It seems to be a natural career…
Not just a number
One of my followers commented that she liked the idea of ’58 being middle-aged!’. I guess she felt that middle-age is somewhat younger than 58?? It got me thinking. What is middle-age? Or should I say – When is middle-age? Are you…
Does my body image look big in this?
More than a third of all women ‘experienced stress over their body image to the extent of being overwhelmed and unable to cope in the last year’. Those are my italics. The figures come from the Mental Health Foundation. We’re not talking…
Grey lady
Hair has been looming large in my life recently. First I was tearing it out because I didn’t get the job and I didn’t get the lodger – you can read about that here . And one of my lovely followers has glorious white curls. We got chatting,…
