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2020 – It’s Been a Funny Old Year Part I
The first of my Reviews of the Year. If you click on the words that are underlined, you’ll be taken (as if by magic) to the blog post I wrote at the time. It started well enough. I remember making some New Year’s Resolutions – I only made…
Car Insurance – such fun
My car insurance is due on 1st January. If I leave it until nearer the time it’ll get forgotten in the chaos of Christmas and New Year (don’t ask how I know this…) So, today I started shopping around. I always use one of the comparison…
Tirelessly??
If I hear the word ‘tirelessly’ trotted out by one more politician… Of course our health care workers don’t work tirelessly. They’re fucking exhausted. And they’re not superheroes either. Suggesting that they are just absolves us from the…
Still No Birds
I get no birds in my garden. I may have mentioned this before . Yesterday I was at my back door when I heard a lot of twittering – a flock of long-tailed tits were in a tree in the garden behind my house. This was very exciting. They’re…
Day 21
I’m taking part in Clinical Trials for a Covid vaccine. This isn’t the Pfizer/BioNTech one that needs to be stored at -70 degrees, and it isn’t the Oxford/AstraZeneca one either. Those are just the ones you’ve heard about. Is there any…
Pressure Washing my Steps
The professionals… Until he left, my ex was in charge of pressure washing. I would stay inside and think he was wonderful for getting out there and doing it, and I’d be ready with a cup of tea when he’d finished. When he left, he took the…
No Plans
I have a few days annual leave, starting today. I have no plans. I haven’t even made any plans that have had to be cancelled. Yes – Covid-19 has been with us for so long now that these few days hadn’t even been booked when it all started.…
It’s Chriiiiistmaaaas (Nearly)!
Twenty days to go until Christmas. It’s going to be a funny one. And I don’t mean ‘funny ha ha’. What are your plans? Are you going for the full 3-household Christmas bubble from 23rd to 27th December? Or will you retreat from the world…
Blogging On
Wow – I’ve had a flurry of new followers over the last couple of weeks. Welcome all!! It’s probably time for a bit of a recap. Apologies if you know all this stuff already! It’s about 18 months since I started this blog. My husband had…
Not only Lockdown but also… Chronic Pain
Living with Chronic Pain by Jade The week before my wedding, I was diagnosed with both endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome. That was in May 2018. However, I was suffering before that – the doctors just weren’t sure why. I found out…
Not only Lockdown but also… writing a novel
NaNoWriMo by Nic Golding I’m currently a woman on a mission. My aim? To write 50,000 of a novel in November as part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Or, to put it in a slightly more terrifying way: I have 30 days to write…
Food Banks
October was pretty shitty for me. And when I sat myself down to have a good think about why, I realised that what I need most in my life is to feel that I’ve achieved something. Anything, really. I decided that I needed to start to do…
