Remembering my mum today
It's the 6th anniversary of her death today, and I'm remembering how I was sitting on my Discovery Bay sofa working my way through the whole series of Friends on my laptop when the email came in from the Doctor at the Dignity Lifestyle Resort to
This week's earworm playlist
How about I update this every week. Or when I feel like it?
This week I had to look up the oeuvre of Take That to discover what my brain was singing. Then I had to speak to Maria, obviously. And I hadn't heard the Carmen Souza for
Braised beef cheeks
On evenings like this week's, when I've come in from the cold and wet, I long to put my bum up against the AGA to warm up. My modern Beckenham kitchen isn't quite as comforting as the cosy Norfolk one, however.
I have wanted
Sarah Leonard
I knew she'd been ill and whenever I walked Fergus past her house, a couple of evenings a week, and saw the front bedroom light always on, I wondered how she was doing. Yesterday I actually bothered to do a search and found her obituary.
Thank you for
You have to develop resilience when you're canvassing
I've just come in from a quick canvassing session, where we attempted to survey local residents on their priorities and worries for the local area. If you don't know about people's concerns, you can't address them, right?
One door was opened by
Good for my health
Well, will you look at that?! Is it a coincidence that this notification from my phone Health app came exactly 9 days after I left Facebook and Instagram?
Scientifically speaking, there will be unisolated variables, but what a strong indication that being part of Meta was not doing me any
This week's earworms
I can't be the only one who finds myself with music going round in my head to reflect my mood, my subconscious concerns? Sometimes my head music takes me by surprise by how it knows what I'm thinking before I realise it. This week I have
It's brown
...which is just a darker shade of beige.
This year's It Colour is "Mocha Mousse." Already we see it appearing everywhere.
A few years ago white was de rigeur in all modern interiors. Which looked beautiful (if, in my view, dull) until it was covered with
Norfolk
I'm lucky enough to have a little place in North West Norfolk, about 25 minutes from the seaside. I love it there for the fresh air, the dark, starry skies and the wildlife.
Here are some of my favourite pictures:
The Canadian
There's something romantic and epic about long train journeys. I have travelled for days across India and China by train, where your carriage becomes a village with all its assorted characters and their comings and goings. (The reality is not as romantic, of course). Sadly, I think I&