Inspiration point (IP)
It's Wimbledon! It's time to pretend there's nothing in the world that a beautifully executed backhand can't sort out. Pass the strawberries and have a go at this week's Inspiration Point: Going Courting. Do with it what you will!
Inspiration point
Santa
We left them out on the windowsill – me and Pippa – piles of breadcrumbs, and crusts, maybe a few vegetable peelings. The sun would be setting, and...
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Childhood
My grandmother was eighty-four when she gave me the box. It was musty and dog-eared, and held together with masking tape. And in it: a collection of...
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Perfect
I love about her that she’s perfect. A tight little ball of rightness, no taller than my thigh. But already: she has this magic in her. Put her in...
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Words
All I want for Christmas is words. Just a scatter of words. Just a handful. I find my eyes drawn back towards the phone on the wall in the hallway –...
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The Gift
The gift was promised, needed, awaited by some; wanted, longed for, improbable solution appropriate, powerful to solve, effective to emancipate,...
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