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Are you sick of New Year guidance?
How are we all feeling almost halfway through the month?
Jan 13
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The passing of a year
Surely we all know that it isn’t naturally the time for new things or resolutions, you know deep down it’s time for true rest.
Jan 2
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Oversharing
As I mop round the kitchen floor the third time I wonder if the people who renovated the kitchen before we lived here had a masochistic streak; why…
Dec 16, 2025
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Stormy days
Nov 25, 2024
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Storm wrecked, head wrecked
Jan 28, 2025
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An Award Winning Blog
Nov 12, 2024
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Sadness and Sisterhood
Jul 4, 2023
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Be a Disruptor
Dec 9, 2025
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I wasn't sure I could write this
Feb 18, 2025
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I was so flustered and distracted at the Festive market at the weekend I had the feeling I might’ve walked away from several people mid sentence; I have…
Dec 9, 2025
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An Adventure in India; Food, people and a bird list
Tom said, “You’re going to come back so ‘found’” and although I laughed aloud I was internally kind of horrified at the cliché; white, middle class…
Dec 2, 2025
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I’m AWOL, come with?
I woke up to the sound of the cockerel crowing, the sun rising up behind the trees.
Nov 18, 2025
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Eccentric collecting, Real friends and Nice things
It was too late, in a split second the little shell was sucked up by Henry and into the depths of his dusty belly.
Nov 11, 2025
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Cliffs, Ports and Clans
I couldn’t sleep, I was thinking of our stormy seas and of the terrifying chaos of shipwreck, I couldn’t get it out of my head, images of huge waves in…
Nov 5, 2025
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Samhain
There’s a row of berry laden hawthorn in the field opposite my bedroom window, I’m often staring out at it hoping to see something interesting.
Oct 28, 2025
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Time defeats me
I’ve left myself very little time to write something, I’m trying to squeeze this in between post dinner and pre bedtime, maybe an hour tops.
Oct 20, 2025
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Hugging trees and being hugged (by people and food)
The week began like many others, a walk in the wilds asking Dara to hug the tree with me.
Oct 14, 2025
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4 Incredible People
The road was closed at Magherintemple, a victim of the storm, a huge Scots pine blocked the way so I turned back and headed for Murlough instead and…
Oct 7, 2025
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