Part of my Dear Daughter Quilt project. A letter and a quilt block Dear Daughter It is time to name and shame the Sunday Blues. Too long it has run riot and ruined hours of our weekend, only to be joined by the Mondays. Like a mischievous sprite it jumps […]
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Dear Daughter: About being tidy
Dear Daughter It has been a while. I have written a few letters in the meantime, but somehow, they’ve not made it to my blog. These may make it into an appendix one day. Or maybe even an e-book containing the missing blocks. The good news is that, not only […]
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If I was to write a novel, I’d base it in a secondhand bookshop. Two reasons. First, I’ve overheard* the most wonderful conversations, in the past, while selecting secondhand books. Snippets that a whole story plot might be built on. I would even suggest that it’s the best location for […]
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Christmas Jumper Day
Seeing one of the children rushing out of school, clutching a note, has one of three effects on me. A sense of dread (small slip of paper, typically, letting you know that they have unwelcome guests in the classroom – nits), sense of the inevitable (sponsorship or school trip requests […]
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