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21st November 2022 In an upper room a bunch of men cowered. These weren’t namby pamby men, they were a group of some of the toughest guys of their time, labourers, fishermen, insurrectionists, and reformed criminals. They weren’t averse to conflict and they’d lived the last three years on the road. Yet they hid, fearful. …
5th November 2017 The word remarkable keeps coming to me, it has done the last few months. The last few years, after the turmoil and drama of living in and then leaving an abusive marriage I’ve celebrated my normal, peaceful, unremarkable life. I deliberately chose unremarkable. And I’m not saying I was wrong to do …
20th July 2017 I’m not a phobia kind of person but I do have one thing that scares me. Pain. I mean physical pain. When I tell people they don’t understand, they tell me “that’s normal, nobody likes pain” but for me it’s a real phobia; dentists (but not check ups because they don’t hurt) …
11th July 2014 This is my story I write it I choose the heroes I choose what happens Today, I start a new chapter A happier chapter Full of love, laughter, and peace I turn the page on the last chapter It’s done Finished Gone The old voices who put me down are silenced The …
When there’s two adults in the home it should make parenting easier, not more difficult: 17th September 2014 “You’ve got your hands full” calls the old guy peering over the hedge he’s clipping. He doesn’t realise that the lady over the road carrying her shopping in said the same thing two minutes earlier and the …
8th August 2014This is still my dream for my golden years, though now it’s in a campervan, not a boat and involves a trailer full of LEGOWhat’s your dream? 8th August 2014 When I am old, well not old; that age where your children have flown the nest but you’re not yet an old lady. …