The beginning of the rest of my life…

Today, August 5th, is my PMDD referral. I am scared, excited, hopeful and dread-filled. Dread-filled because what if they don’t listen, can’t help, don’t get it? I’ve already written a post about this on quick press and then completely lost it which maybe means that I was saying too much.  Then again it might just have been one [...]

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The one where I thought my blog was dead, and a tiny small Interflora Review

I missed my blogaversary. How rude! But I learnt something. When your friend is awaiting the arrival of his new baby boy, and has been through a variety of virtual reincarnations and hence changes of email address over the past year, do not, I repeat DO NOT rely on the poor man to remember to register your domain [...]

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Casualties of War

There’s barely anything left. An ornate shell, empty and yet full.  Brimming over with emotion -  the tears of a city and so much more. It stands juxtaposed against the modern beauty of the new.  Poignant and fragile, a monument to loss, a reminder of past destruction, and a marker for future hopes. In some ways it feels wrong [...]

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Turn of the Shrew

This is a shrew. But then you knew that right? Except, It’s not just a shrew. It’s special. Because on December 31st every year, it evolves, just for a moment, into something else. It becomes… The New Year Shrew Sighhhhhh. Is it not beautiful? All year round it does normal, everyday shrew stuff, such as: Chasing stag beetles around small anthills Reciting Wordsworth to foreign dignitaries at [...]

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