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  June 4, 2019

  Help me please

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• Message I wish I could send to my daughter

  May 26, 2019

  Dear T, You have no Idea the level and depth that my love for you reaches.  You may make all the accusations in the world at me, you may go for the jugular with your words, intended to cause as much pain as you can achieve but I won't be backed into so far a…

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• TOTW 36. The green eyed monster

  October 22, 2018

  What do I envy in others? That's a great question. At the moment I am more envious than I ever have been before. Unless you count my desire, at the age of 7, to own a full set of colouring pens - and I'm talking about every shade of every colour in the rainbow, including…

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• Theme of the week

  May 1, 2018

  Enjoyable days - I've made a point of enjoying my life, of filling it with enjoyable days and to find the enjoyment in those days which are less than perfect. Obviously not everything is in my control, at the moment there are several things that I find incredibly frustrating; infuriating even. Bu...

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• The Correspondents

  April 15, 2018

  Rich and I love going to gigs, nowadays it's only a few times a year and, this past Friday, was an utterly awesome gig. We first saw The Correspondents at Womad in 2012. L had just turned 4 and T was 6. The Correspondents played in the middle of the afternoon but the festival life…

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• The inaugural…

  March 31, 2018

  ...Cross posting. I don't know where to write or if to write. I keep opening a 'write' box, over here and over there, then leaving it hovering, waiting and impatient, feeling used and impotent. But where do I go? What do I do? On the one hand there's Bruce, the prodigal DiaryMaster. He left us&he...

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• Typewriter

  March 30, 2018

  I have a love of the olden days. You know, not the real ones but the ones viewed through retrospective rose tints. The Olden Days as described by Fannie Flagg, in which a whole town were above the racism of the rest of the south, in which people really were nice and kind and neighbourly.…

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• Writing valentines to my soul mate

  February 14, 2018

  Do I believe in soul mates? He's at work at the moment and our romantic valentines evening involves him going to the hockey and me meeting up with a friend 😂😂   R and I believe that we can tell each other we love each other when we like and not just  when Big Business…

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• Tuesday

  February 13, 2018

  It's 06:00. What does the other stand for? Oh my God it's early! L (aged 9) has football (soccer) training today while T (aged 12) and I are going a nearby town to help a friend. This friend runs  autism training days and asked us to come along to welcome people in and make drinks…

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