I always used to say sorry. I am not sure why or what I was apologising for. I was apologising because I always felt inadequate, not up to the same speed as my friends and family. Read More →
I was a little apprehensive before heading off to my first hen party.
Drunken nights, willies, naked butlers, silly games. Would I fit in or be left feeling most uncomfortable? Having lived a reclusive author life for a while how would I relate to my peers?
All worries were unfounded, of course. It is a weekend to spend with your oldest and dearest friends who bring out the very best in you and make you be the best version of you that you can and who you care for with all your being in return.
It is a weekend with friends who you have known almost all your life, who have been with you through life’s inevitable ups and downs and who you wish only the very best for and who you are prepared to work as hard as you can to celebrate and give to them everything that makes them them.
It takes you out of yourself and you enter a space where you think only of them in the most healthy of ways. To give is the very strongest of gifts and one that you can’t give to all but on a hen weekend you have the space and opportunity to show the gratitude you feel and the happiness you want to share and give to those who have discovered the ultimate gift of life- love unconditionally and have that love returned 110%.
I have been catching up with episodes of Big Scottish Book club recently. On one of them, Miriam Margolyes says that the best gift a parent can give a child is love. Read More →
I have recently been part of a Children’s Panel. We had a mock panel event and being on it I found myself trying so hard to say the right thing that I found I wasn’t really saying what I thought but what I thought others wanted to hear. Read More →
I am heading off to Puglia this August for a job. I should be hugely excited and I am but I am terrified in equal measure. I am not quite sure why as Italy is my favourite place in the whole wide world. Read More →
I have been busy working with the Caputh Village Hall to find signs for the backs of our chairs as a reward from our Crowdfunder. `I have been, therefore, thinking a lot about signs. But, not just physical signs…emotional….spiritual. Read More →
Life would be so much easier if people said what they meant! Since writing, a little bit, and reading, a lot, I have learned how powerful words can be; used well they can show leadership and be a role model, used badly they can inspire fascism and War.
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I have been catching up with episodes of Big Scottish Book club recently. On one of them, Miriam Margolyes says that the best gift a parent can give a child is love. This happened on exactly the same day that I received a Christmas card from my Aunt telling me that she loves me very much and it got me thinking about the truth behind the statement. Read More →
