By now I should be sitting with you, leaning into you on the sofa with your arms around me. I should be resting my head on your chest, listening to you breathing.
I’m not. You may have noticed.
I’m sitting typing away, with all my best plans scuppered.
If they’d held their decision for another twenty minutes, they [...]
Bags packed.
Taxi booked.
See you soon.
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Happy Solstice
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I can never choose the correct pen.
The ink stopped flowing in the first pen I chose. Which is a shame, it wrote nicely.
The second pen had grit stuck in the nib. It was intermittent, making it look like my handwriting is worse than it actually is.
The final pen wins hands-down. It exploded black ink all [...]
I was chatting to a colleague I have known for many years about decorations at lunch. I was telling her how I had my cards up, but nothing else as it hardly seemed worth it when I wasn’t going to be there. It might also explain my lack of overall Christmassyness.
She had just erected her [...]
I adore the children in my life. I love watching their attitudes and changes in behaviour as they grow, the little idiosynchracies that make them who they are. I wonder what will change as they mature, and what is intrinsically theirs. I sometimes look at them and am impatient to meet the adults they will [...]
Here should be an observation on corsets. But I think the wider readership may have had enough of ladies underwear for now.
For the second time in less than a month I have received outstanding customer service from none other than a high street bank’s telephone banking service. You know the ones - where everyone complains that they send the phonecalls abroad and you can’t understand what is being said.
Well, I’d like to redress the balance. I [...]
This afternoon a car pulled out in front of me whilst I was driving. Thankfully my reactions were speedy and my brakes were up to scratch. No one was harmed.
I allowed my mind to wander. What if there had been an accident. What if I had been breathalysed. What if I was over.
‘What?’ I hear [...]
A measure of one’s intelligence is not making the same mistake twice. Damn, that makes me stupid then.