The End

I am closing this blog. I will still be blogging, but not right now and not right here. I did write a long-winded post about how blogging has changed and I have changed and the ins and outs of why … Continue reading


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Forty three

I turned 43 last weekend. It seems important somehow. It has seemed to be a coming of age in the way that no other time, not 18 or 21 or 30 or even 40 has ever been. Perhaps it’s just … Continue reading


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One evening

Last night, I was listening to Archie Roach while I wound some hanks of silk into balls. I don’t have a ball winder, so I have to use the backs of two of our upright chairs. I’m not a fan … Continue reading


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a new year, a new blog

I’ve started a new blog to write about the things I read. a blog load of books I’m not quitting this blog, but the other one will be only about the things I read. I don’t think that means that … Continue reading


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Is it too late in the year to say, Happy New Year

I didn’t even think, until a lovely person left a comment this morning, that I had left things at an inappropriate pause. The term finished at school, the mister decided to drain his annual leave, we went away and had … Continue reading


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Skin cancer in a multicultural world

Scene: me walking into school. French woman: ‘What have you done to your face?’ Me: ‘Oh, I just had a skin cancer removed.’ French woman: ‘OMG, are you all right? Are you okay? OMG!’ Me: Explains difference between melanoma and … Continue reading


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