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  • Ticks

    Today has been a day of three parts (so far) – very much a sine wave day. 3 hours in the car to, around and from Plymouth to get a boat battery and a rotary line. This is my new domestic landscape. Things improved when we went to the local soft play (that shows how…

  • Secret garden

    Look what we found…

  • Home sweet home

    Cars and boats. A houseful of boys. These are my lot in life. And now we’ve taken it up a notch. I’m in Devon. In Brixham. In our new flat!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray!!! PS the seagulls say hello. Loudly.

  • Decade

    Tomorrow is the tenth anniversary of my Mother’s death from cancer. She was 69. Rather than be sad I wanted to remember some of the things she did – to recapture her spirit iyswim. She wasn’t perfect but it’s the flaws that make a person interesting. She knew all the words to The Mexican Hat…

  • Is there an echo in here?

    To the Cotswold Water Park with three girlfriends, escaping mothers all, for a night in a lovely hotel, good food and a little too much wine. What a shot in the arm. I actually read (Caitlin moran’s recent tome) , swam, knitted and chatted. Marvellous. You really do not realise the sheer lack of me…