I must confess … this is not a post that I ever thought that *I* would be writing! My whole life I have struggled with being tired all the time (thanks to glandular fever, depression, severe anemia and sleep apnea). And now? I find myself struggling with insomnia. No matter how tired I am, it […]
Waking up to the Women’s Movement
I’ve been thinking a lot about feminism lately, after getting an email from an old school friend. As she filled me in on what she’d been doing over the years, I was struck by one sentence in particular – the one where she basically apologised for “throwing the women’s movement back into the dark ages” […]
A Sentence A Day: April 2021
Ooops I did it again! Last May was the “month of Miss Fleur” … but it seems this edition of A Sentence A Day may have pipped it at the post, for the number of entries starring the princess diva puss kitty herself, that fabulous feline, Miss Fleur! 1 April – So my usual business […]
Skating Away into the Sunset
I saw some very sad news on Facebook last week – Stafford Skate Centre is closing. Roller skating first appeared on my radar when I was a kid. We used to go to Redcliffe for family outings and there was a skating rink perched right next to the waterfront (weird place for it!). I found […]