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Bring me sunshine
This week the oven broke, which meant buying a new one at short notice because I like to bake and the kids whine if the roast isn’t there on their plates on Sunday. Then, we found a hole in the outer glazing of our conservatory roof. I spied it when chasing away the cobwebs. Still, […]
Bridge building – saying sorry.
In a quiet moment, thoughts flitted through my mind and I’d been thinking about saying sorry, showing remorse for our harshest actions. It brought to mind a quote from the 1970 film Love Story – ‘Love means never having to say you’re sorry.’ When I first saw this movie many moons ago that line gave […]
Advent is upon us.
“Don’t bunch them together… spread them out… different colours, mix them up a bit. Don’t hang the big ones at the top…..” My instructions to a six year old on how to dress a Christmas tree seemed to fall on deaf ears. Whenever she turned away from the tree, I took the opportunity to re-jig […]
Poppies
It is Armistice Day. Poppy day. The amazing installation at the Tower of London has caught the imagination of the country. 888,246 ceramic red poppies ‘planted’ in the moat of the fortress, each representing a British fatality. That’s a huge number of men (and women too) whose lives ceased to existed in the battlefields. […]
The Quiet Writer 