I need to mark the occasion and share it. Today I finished all the Apple Fitness + 30 minute Treadmill workouts, all 126 of them. From my first few, mid-menopause and recovering from anaemia, where 6.0 km per hour was an achievement and I had to stop at least 3
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It's happened again
Why anyone would behave in this way is beyond my understanding, but this keeps happening, and it's happened again.
Yet again, someone I considered a close and loyal friend has, for some reason known only to themselves (or more likely unknown) decided that they would twist my words
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Norfolk in May
I confess that I don't really know what to do about the difference in emphasis between this Ghost blog and my Substack. I sort of decided that shorter comments on topical thoughts would go onto the Substack, whereas more carefully-considered and durable writings might go on here.
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Nectar Studios' Milk and Honey Medispa Show - Dr Bell's Baths, Leith 15th April 2025
To Edinburgh and a Frow VIP seat at the first fashion show produced and directed and generally put together by Eliza's Nectar Studios brand. It's been months in the making and she's rightly talked about little else.
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Trigger warning: if you are still experiencing post-Pandemic sourdough trauma, please don't read this.
I know that I'm late to this but if, like, everyone else in the UK can make sourdough bread, I need to be able to as well. I missed out on the
Today would have been my beloved Oscar's 17th birthday. My first pet dog, he taught us all about unconditional love and about the magic of dogdom, a goodness that is frustratingly indescribable to those who have never experienced it. I loved him with all my heart.
Since he
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Skydive
Skydive before 60
I was chatting to a fellow dogwalker in the park while our dogs played together about achievements and facing our fears, and she told me that she and her partner had been on a tandem skydive recently. They are both a few years older than me and, as they described
In the end I went with my gut instinct.
You'll know how I switched from Twitter to Bluesky fairly early but kept my Twitter account because of friends I'd made there and because I was running my Samaritans Branch Twitter feed and because my LibDem candidacies
I'm not normally keen on Mothering Sunday these days. I mean, I'm happy that it's a chance for other mothers, mums etc. to be spoilt, but my children are far away and there's no possibility of them spending the day with me.
What a beautiful, warm weekend it was in North Norfolk recently when we took a little trip to Stiffkey. Different people tell me that it's pronounced Sookey or Stookey but I'm not sure about this. Whichever way I say it, I'm bound to be
I was chatting to a fellow dogwalker in the park while our dogs played together about achievements and facing our fears, and she told me that she and her partner had been on a tandem skydive recently. They are both a few years older than me and, as they described
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Concert flyer - Schutz, Michael Haydn, Lotti
If you are interested in Renaissance or Baroque music, come to our concert in Orpington next Sunday evening.
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March gallery
Some pictures of spring in South London, Kent and Norfolk
