Precioussssss….
Image borrowed from here Sometimes, right out of the blue, something happens that forces you to open your eyes to yourself, and when that happens, sometimes what you see isn’t what you’d like it to be...
View ArticleMismatched Socks and Secret Quirks
Today I went to a photo shoot with Venture Studios, which was a 30th Birthday present from my sister (she’s such an inspired wee genius!) and had the MOST fun and the doggies were SOOOO well behaved....
View ArticleIt’s ALL about ME!
I’m feeling intolerably lazy about blogging and I really do absolutely love memes, so here are 25 so-called interesting facts about me: I experience wordjoy. Particular favourites include: frond,...
View ArticleThe unexpected moments
Unbridled JOY I seem to have a tendency to avoid blogging when life takes one of its more turbulent turns, and so it has been of late. Whilst life continues in its unremarkable day to day way, somehow...
View ArticleKnowing where you’re going is half the battle to getting there
The Winding Path Have you ever found yourself doing something you don’t want to do, being less than you really are just to keep the peace, and feel so worn out and so lost that you’ve almost lost the...
View ArticleIn which I meet new people… and they challenge me
It’s been an unusual week. The sort of week that has consistently surprised me and turned my expectations on their respective heads. It has, basically, been rather brilliant. People have surprised me...
View ArticleFriendships on the road less travelled
I have a very unusual friend, and with him I discovered one of the most unusual and joyful friendships I have. It totally transcends boundaries, when it’s not busy ripping them the hell apart and it...
View ArticleTo Adventure, Excitement and EXTRAORDINARY dreams
Here’s to 2011, a year of adventure, excitement and fulfilment of some extraordinary dreams. If 2010 was a year of losing myself, then 2011 is to be a year of finding myself again. 2010 was supposed to...
View ArticleMy Celluloid Romance
These are the moments we stay alive for (No, not like that.) I was sitting in a pub a few nights ago, chatting with a friend of mine about all manner of things, moving away, spreading your wings and...
View ArticleThe whole bloody world is crowded with absences
That sentence was all it took for me to be drawn in and enthralled by The Last Magician by Janette Turner Hospital.It didn’t just resonate with me, but near as dammit pulled my still-beating heart from...
View ArticleBecause sometimes being a square peg in a round hole is the best thing
I’d given up on finding a name for the shape I was looking for, and thought the hole needed to be carved bespoke. I’d spent too long being other shapes that I had forgotten where my boundaries lay. I...
View ArticleWhat I Want To Know
Do the Vendigum live at the North Pole? What I want to know is this … Where did all the magic go … Where are the space aliens, the flying cars and the dragons? When did we stop hiding out in caves...
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