The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Tag Archives: mum
Life Lesson, Number… Whatever
My mother has been a constant influence in my life, even in death. She gifted me many things I didn’t appreciate at the time – how to eat peas in polite company; why you shouldn’t wear brown shoes with a … Continue reading
Posted in family, gardening, memories
Tagged fritillarias, garden, hostas, memories, mum, plants
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Wrinkles and the art of aging
When my mother had her cataracts done the one downside was the realisation her skin was no longer smooth – more bark than balm, as she thought it. Not that she really minded. She just wished she’d realised. I found … Continue reading
Pink Radios and Champagne – the Art of being Cosy #carrotranch
The last prompt from the Carrot Ranch is here December 29, 2016 prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less) write a cosy story. What is it to be cosy, to experience Danish hygge? It doesn’t need to be culture-specific, … Continue reading
Posted in creative writing, families, flash fiction, miscellany, prompt
Tagged Carrot Ranch Congress of Rough Writers, flash, humour, memories, mum
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Dickhead tours – revisted #holidays
A while back I posted about my experiences as a holiday organiser and why it was not a complete success. As we enter the summer holiday season I thought I might return to the subject for those of you who … Continue reading
Making a spectacle
Van of Van By The River posted a neatly humorous post on the subject of keeping away from mirrors when wearing glasses (and incidentally on the importance of myopic husbands – I think spouses/long term partners are preferred if lacking … Continue reading
Posted in family, humour, miscellany
Tagged cars, driving, eyesight, hearing, mum, senses
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Washed Up
There’s a prompt running over at Irene Walters’ blog that asks for early, first memories. It’s a monthly, aka leisurely, prompt and February looks at Prompt No 2. First memories of wash day. Was it a ritual in your house. Did … Continue reading
Trafalgar day
I was slowly coming to this morning and some burbling correspondent on the radio said it was Trafalgar Day. This celebrates Nelson’s victory in 1805 at the eponymous battle when there seems to have been a fair bit of man … Continue reading
Dickhead tours
Back in the mid 1990s, when the Lawyer and the Vet were small we regularly holidayed in Devon. Soon enough this became a tradition – the early start, the Little Chef breakfast and the difficult choice of Butterfly farm/Otter sanctuary/model railway … Continue reading
Posted in children, families, memoires, miscellany
Tagged Buckfast, dad, Devon, families, holidays, mum, timeshares
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