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The school that was new when my nan was there in the 1920s This week's Revelations prompt is memoir. It asks if we have considered writing one, and if so wha

CW: This post is about illness, death and dying “Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re b

This post about celebrations is linked to the meme #Swap with Floss. It is about celebrations past and future.

Christmas wasn't so bad this year. This gives me optimism for years to come. no longer to I need to feel sad or lonely.

My house is a home because…… It is the place I lived during my marriage and where I brought up my son. It is a place where I have been happy, really happy. True, there has been sadness here, but to be fair the happiness has outweighed the pain and the tears. We moved to … Continue reading "365 days

2016 was a strange year. For the world it has been full of turbulence, a year when more than ever you got the feeling that people were unable to tolerate differ

From time to time I have a look back at what I might have written this week or month in previous years on this blog. This morning, prompted by a photo of my the

Master and I have just returned from a night away. We didn't travel far, just 25 miles or so to the area I grew up in. We had arranged an evening out with my tw

It is 4 weeks today since my dad passed away. In many ways it has been too busy to allow the grieving process to progress in perhaps the way it should. Other th

As a nurse I have watched the dying process and I have been with people when they have died. I have cared for people afterwards, washed them, prepared them for