Over a Barrel

"We're out of gas - again!" The exasperation in my husband's voice yesterday was evident.  Like many people, we live in an area with no piped gas, and all our heating and hot water is provided by boilers that run on LPG (liquified petroleum gas) provided by [...]

By |2022-07-11T21:21:59+01:0028th February 2022|Life|

Unintelligible

Intelligence, until the advent of artificial intelligence, has always been an attribute describing a human being, or a living creature. In recent years I have observed that adjective ‘intelligent’ has been applied to a number of inanimate objects.  For example, [...]

By |2022-07-11T21:22:45+01:0013th December 2021|Life|

Welcome to the Next Stage of Life

A few days ago, I retired from work - my final occupation, my last job.   I had orchestrated my exit, set everything in order and handed responsibility over - it all felt quite satisfying.  I received a few cards and [...]

By |2022-02-17T18:32:23+00:007th October 2021|Life, Poetry|

Spooky Big Ben

For some years I have been a member of a small painting group in Dorset and each summer we hold an annual Summer Exhibition in Milton Abbas.  Last year in 2020 it was cancelled owing to the pandemic, but this year [...]

By |2022-07-11T21:23:32+01:0016th July 2021|Events|

Don’t Quote Me

I wonder who is responsible for putting together online all the quotations on hundreds of different words and topics, and how accurate the attributions are. Recently I came across a whole slew of them on the subject of Change.  Some [...]

By |2022-02-16T12:19:25+00:0022nd June 2021|Life|

A Fairy Story

Spring is here and we are all wishing that the pandemic would just go away.  We keep being told that it will, but somehow it still goes on and people are still suffering and dying.  So sad. Sometimes we just [...]

By |2022-07-11T21:24:25+01:001st April 2021|Life|

Toast

I must have been feeling hungry the other morning while I was lying half asleep in bed, as I was dreaming about my home-made bread and eating a slice of toast with honey or butter (but not both – one [...]

By |2021-02-09T16:54:23+00:009th February 2021|Life|

The Colours of Lockdown

In many cultures rainbows are a symbol of hope. They appear sometimes as perfect arcs, often during a rainstorm, when the sun shines onto water droplets, shattering its white light into an array of brilliant colours. Everyone loves a rainbow.  It produces that frisson of [...]

By |2021-01-17T17:26:15+00:0030th December 2020|Life, Uncategorised|

Keep up the Good Read

As a writer and a reader, I was saddened in particular by the closure of bookshops during the summer lockdown, but I don’t think this meant that people read less.  Although we were denied the enjoyment of browsing in our [...]

By |2020-12-15T13:28:51+00:0022nd October 2020|Books|
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