three little words
On Saturday S said those three little words that every woman, no matter how independant, modern or cynical she is or pretends to be, wants to hear:"I'll cook dinner":-)
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I'm sure that this will come as a huge shock to you all (!) but I'm in love with S. I know, you didn't see that coming did you..?He loves me too, by the way. In fact he said it first :-D And that's...
View Articlebumpy
I return to blogland after a two month absence to be all whiney. I am surrounded by baby bumps. One cousin, two friends and FIVE colleagues. When does it stop hurting? Does it ever stop hurting?
View Articletwo months in one post
I am a bad blogger for leaving two months between posts, but I'm going to try to make up for it with what may become a behemoth of a post... Apologies in advance :-)Okay, let's start with something the...
View Articlenew year
Happy New Year chaps. May 2014 bring you all health, happiness and lots of cake.
View Articlefive
Tomorrow (Thur 6th Feb) will be five years since I lost my daughter Tilly. It's been five years so, naturally, no-one else remembers. Not my parents, not my friends and I am sure not even A.There's...
View Article"I know exactly how you felt"
A small group of us gathered together for an evening of pizza, wine and gossip. The conversation ranged from the situation in Crimea to who we thought should go through to the next round on "The...
View Articleoh yes, I knew I'd forgotten something
One of the two IRL friends who reads this blog pointed out a glaring omission in my (lack of) posts these past few months. S and I are back together...So, we had that perplexing morning when we broke...
View ArticleI see what he was trying to do
The following exchange at work made me chortle this morning:Prof Fleetfoot (talking about having run the London Marathon yesterday): well I'm glad I did it, but mainly because I never will feel the...
View Articlesix
Six years ago today I lost Starchild. My whole life changed direction that day and while I'm not unhappy, I think I will never stop mourning the life I lost.
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more about my cat
I last blogged about my darling little cat (by the way, her name is Mouse), a year ago.She is still with me, but I'm not sure for how much longer. In the time between then and now, she's had a couple...
View Articleand again
So S and I broke up again this evening. He says he's not in love with me any more, while he is still very fond of me.We've agreed to stay friends. Well this sucks...
View Articlealone
This break up with S is the first bad sad thing I have had to face without my darling little cat to comfort me in twenty years. I don't know how to process this.
View Articletea and ice cream
Thank you for your supportive comments on my last two posts.My week has mainly been fuelled by endless cups of tea at work and falling face-first into tubs of ice cream at home. But last night I went...
View Article#Microblog Mondays: reclaiming
I need to reclaim my blog and this seems like a good way to start...Bullet points for the past couple of months:I'm still grieving deeply for my beloved little catS and I got back together, after a lot...
View Articledipping a toe
Hello!I've been away for a while - I thought it was just a few months but turns out it was over a year. Not sure where that time went.How are you all? I am trying to catch up with everyone but I...
View Articlehas it really been eight months?!
Hello again.I'm a bit pants at this blog, aren't I? I keep meaning to update, then I read all your posts and I decide that I don't have anything interesting to say and I wander off again.I have...
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odd week, disjointed post
It's been quite a week, hasn't it? I won't rehash as I know from reading all your posts that a lot has already been said. Let me just put this out there and I'll leave the topic alone. We went...
View Articlereader, I married him
It was the best day of my life. I know that's a cliche but I don't care. I swear I started smiling as soon as I woke up and I didn't stop until I fell asleep.Best. Day. Ever!
View Articleloss
Three weeks after our wedding S's mother passed away. She was 92 and had had a full life: married for 70 years to a man she was still in love with, lived to know her great-grandchildren and never lost...
View Articlelightbulbs everywhere
For most of the first quarter of 2017 I had been feeling rather below par. There was nausea, vomiting, dizzy spells and quite a lot of falling over. My GP sent me off for a blood test, which proved...
View Articlehoneymoon
Because of one thing or another (tumours, bereavement, exhaustion) we had to wait until February of this year to go on honeymoon. But it was the best time ever. We went Sri Lanka for three weeks; two...
View Articlecobwebs
I am dusting the cobwebs off this blog with a couple of catch-up posts. Last year was full of incident, some incredibly brilliant and some not so much. There was illness, a wedding and a funeral.This...
View Articlebetter angels
A month after I got married, A (the ex-SO and father to my lost babies) also got married. She is 17 years younger than him and in the prime of childbearing life. And yesterday afternoon A emailed me...
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