Overwhelm and holidays
Before we went on holiday last month I was exhausted. There were a lot of loose ends to tie up […]
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Self-reflection
Clarity
Last weekend we didn’t really need to be anywhere, so we decided to catch up with the gardening. While the
The ‘Art’ of Having Fun
Welcome to the April 2014 Carnival of Natural Parenting: Family Pastimes This post was written for inclusion in the monthly
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Spring Fever
I don’t know what it is about spring, or rather, I don’t know what it is about this particular time
Currently Reading: Quiet
Various fairy tales, the Brambly Hedge stories by Jill Barklem, The Three Musketeers by Dumas, Core Maths by Bostock and
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Anyone can draw well. Really? (Part 1)
In the summer holidays our family went to a small village called Holt in north Norfolk, UK. Holt is a
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Rejections, recognitions and reaffirmations…
In the past month I’ve received one rejection of a poem from a magazine editor, one acceptance of a poem
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Balance; and the delights of the season
I have been feeling more ‘balanced’ recently – which has no doubt been due to spending lots of time with
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GRIEF it has withered me, hollowed me out;
It is ironic that a poem of mine (a triolet) about grief is about to be published whilst I am
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A guest post about the creation of ‘The Ballad of the Beach’
I was really pleased to be able to liaise with Lisa Hassan Scott so that a piece of my writing
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So what is a wild woman?
Well… a wild woman is not a screaming, raving banshee. She is not an out-of-control woman desperately clawing at everything
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