Still learning to smile

Miss M:  ”Mummy, we laugh much more when it’s sunny don’t we?” Sometimes I don’t know what I’d do without my little girls.  When life seems like one disaster after another and I’ve had to make some tough decisions and feel more alone than I have done in a long time, my kids always always manage [...]

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5 year old saves the day

Struggling right now. M and E are so sad.  We don’t want to move.  We don’t want to pack our lives up again and leave wonderful neighbours and good friends and next door’s cat. It’s hard to stay positive when you’re not in control. There are no hard feelings towards my landlady.  She doesn’t want to sell.  So [...]

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Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill RIP

It seems wrong to start the New Year at Chez Beaufoix with something sad, so instead I’m calling this a little tribute, a homage. The amazing, inspiring and breathtakingly talented Pete Postlethwaite died today aged 64. One of Britain’s great character actors, I first saw him in ‘Sharpe’s Company‘ in 1994 playing the truly evil Sergeant Obadiah [...]

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Is it cliques or just friendships? Aren’t we all the same?

I am not writing this post to villify, upset or offend anybody.  I am writing it because I am so sad and low and overwhelmed. I commented on a post last night.  It was a post that I am sure was intended to  be a positive and warm outreaching to new bloggers.  Tots 100 Author and [...]

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