Autobiography
The scent of them
I miss the smell of families – Funky, loud, unabashedly visceral. Granddad’s chest hair was wiry; sourly Vinegary, reeked like baked conkers. Nana’s...
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Reflections of Mother’s Day as a Motherless, Childless Woman
A couple of Sunday's ago my evening viewing was upset a little by the chosen format for that night’s edition of The Big Painting Challenge (BBC One,...
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With thanks to the Morphine
With thanks to the Morphine Writing poetry is not an easy thing Reading it can be even more challenging I sit down with pen in hand Trying to think...
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My Mother And I Agree On Something
I lost my Mum last month. She was a funny and wise woman, and I wrote this last year after a conversation during which, for once, we really did agree on something.
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Dawn
French horns play their music, with light trickling down over the hills and the silent forest to the new buds of trees that will one day become great...
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A Restitution Narrative
A Restitution Narrative (after reading Ann Oakley’s Fracture ) Things you can’t do with a broken right arm (if you are right handed) Do up your bra...
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Courgettes and Cactuses
You told me we take something from every relationship They all have their own reason their own purpose I dont know if you took anything from me for...
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1500 Paces
Sometimes I can work best late at night and sometimes I can work at my best early in the morning. This one day was one of those early morning days as...
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AND SO TO SLEEP (for World Sleep Day)
I find it difficult to sleep, sometimes, Increasingly more often than not. There are reasons, excuses, explanations, As a ‘woman of a certain age’,...
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In Case of Emergency
WARNING: do not attempt alone. What to do in instances of sudden loss of love: determine source of apathy. Quickly remove pride and spite. If in...
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