At the beginning of last year as we were settling in to our new, and hopefully final home, I began to think that a cat would complete our home quite nicely. And once Golden Girl arrived with us in June, she started to ask for a cat too. It was a good idea to helpContinue reading “Freddie the Cat-astrophe”
Monthly Archives: Feb 2022
Underpinning
I remember as a young teenager there was a house on my street that had some subsidence and needed major works to underpin the foundations and stabilise the construction. It feels like that might be what is happening to me at present. I have unwittingly built a life on a dodgy mix of foundations. ThereContinue reading “Underpinning”
Gurt Lush
In a distraction from the heaviness of some of my recent posts, here is something light. I’m originally from Kent, right on the border of Greater London. I moved to the West Country at the end of the last millennium so although I am still a relative new-comer, I have been here in the westContinue reading “Gurt Lush”
On the brink …
When I started this blog I thought quite carefully about the purpose. Partly it is to help me make sense of things, almost like a journal that others get to read. Partly it is so that others might know me. And partly, I hope, it is to help other people. There are themes that mightContinue reading “On the brink …”
Learning to bloom where I am planted 