Jo Beaufoix | Tag Archive

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

Monday, May 23, 2011

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 [...]

30 Days of Truth

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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I have a lovely bloggy friend. Her name is Cami. She writes eloquently and has a truly unique voice that can make me laugh, smile, snort cheekily, nod sagely, feel calmed and soothed or inspired and energized, and one day I hope to meet her. Back in the early days I read her every day, but [...]

Nobody In

Friday, August 21, 2009

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I’m not here. I’m writing a reading type thing for my cousin’s wedding. She wants something silly and fun and sweet. The only thing is, the wedding is on Monday. Arghhhhhhhhhh. SO I’m not here. And neither is this glass of wine or that Guu chocolate mousse thing. Oh, and I added my twitter account so if you get [...]

Erm

Monday, June 8, 2009

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I can’t write. Seriously, I think someone squidged my brain out of my ear, rinsed it out, put it through one of those old fashioned clothes wringers and then hung out to drip dry in the cool night air. If you listen very carefully you might hear it flapping. Flap flap flap See. Help.

I sat in his chair

Monday, February 16, 2009

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There’s just a voice. Not loud, not demanding, but quietly enthusiastic. You don’t have to listen. You can choose to roll over in your sleeping bag, close your eyes and dream your own dreams, but if you do that a chorus of shushing and tutting will accompany the rustle as you try to change position [...]

Have a Spooktacular Halloween

Friday, October 31, 2008

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Outside it is crisp and biting. There is that pinched feeling, that nip in the air that comes only with dark autumn nights, the prelude to a cold winter. Trees, having lost the shelter of their leaves, shiver forlornly casting long reaching shadows beneath the glare of a ghost white moon. It is a night ripe [...]

Lost words

Monday, October 6, 2008

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It lay there damp and forgotten, a single page from a small paperback book, half folded. It rested uneasily amongst fallen leaves of crisp autumn gold, and I wondered why it was there, this little piece of toil and sweat and probably love. Part of me wanted to stop and retrieve it, to cradle its limp frailty [...]

Where am I?

Monday, September 1, 2008

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The creative and fabulous Gattina is our Fun Monday host today and her request is that we show her our blogging space. I’d love to say that I spend my writing and reading time here… Or that my view as I blog away to my little heart’s content is this, ..or maybe this. But let’s face it, that would [...]

In love with Borders

Friday, August 22, 2008

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My mate Rosie gets slightly miffed if I mention Mansfield’s ‘bookshop’. Rosie: “Mansfield doesn’t have a book shop Jo, it has Whsmiths, which is not a bookshop.” Me: “It has blumming books doesn’t it? So it’s a bookshop.” Rosie just shakes her head in mock disgust and grins. You see, though she was born [...]

Dales Walk, Friends and Fun Monday

Monday, July 21, 2008

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The aromatic Irish Coffee House brings us our Fun Monday subject today. She wants to know what career we imagined we’d have as a child when we grew up, and if we could have any career today, what would it be? My answers are going to be short and sweet because I want to ask all you [...]