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This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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| Prompt: "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place." Zora Neale Hurston Now that Valentine's Day is near, what do you think real love is? Real love is the one that survives the lows as well as the highs. As lovely as it is romantic love can’t last. But it can be replaced by something stronger. Loyalty is a kind of love and can’t be beaten in my opinion, because whilst flowers and promises are desirable, knowing that there is one person who will always have your back no matter what, is irreplaceable. Of course one can never tell if your chosen partner will be the forever one until the journey is through, so it’s all a matter of faith, hard work and commitment. I guess I’m getting towards the end of that journey with my life partner after being together for 65 years, so hopefully we’ll creak to the finishing line together. But maybe the only genuine love is the love a mother has for their child, it seems no one questions it, it is just a given. |
| 2026 Prompt: “Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” Elie Wiesel What are your thoughts on friendship, generally or personally speaking? Throughout my life I have had different feelings about the importance of friends. I’ve never felt the need for a large group of friends. At school I always had one special friend, we were together every day for over ten years until we left school and as happens when we went on our separate ways, it was as heartbreaking as any close relationship ending is. I visited her when I returned to England to see my family. It had been over forty years since this friend and I had been in contact. I knocked on her door and asked her to “fill me in on what’s been happening since I saw you last!” We sat and talked in her kitchen as if we’d never missed a day. Nowadays I have a group of friends but only a very few whom I know I can depend on in a crisis. I hope they feel they can depend on me too. Friendships can be hard work sometimes, some people expect too much from a friend. I’ve experienced this in the past and it can be a difficult situation. My friends and I can survive long absences and when we do catch up we simply carry on where we left off. That’s a sign of true friendship. |
| Prompt: What are some things you would miss if you no longer had them? What a question! I guess there must be hundreds of things. Yet having said that, I have lived quite well without many things. When we travelled around Australia in our caravan for almost a year I loved not having much. I liked the fact I could do the “housework “ in ten minutes. We had four of everything, even though there were just us two, in case we had visitors. Our clothes were pared down to basics, the same with shoes and underwear. I think the one thing I’d really miss though is my heated hair brush. My hair is a frizzy mess if I don’t use it. Yes that’s the only thing I can think of atm. Oh yes, my iPad and phone. |
| Prompt: “Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.” Do you like hot chocolate, and what are your most favored hot drinks? I am definitely a tea drinker. The idea of coffee when I’ve only just woken up is actually disgusting. So tea for me brought in to me whilst still in bed by my husband. Only then can I think of starting my day. Breakfast includes more tea or even two. But then something strange happens around ten thirty, that’s when I need a coffee, tea will not do. And then that’s it for coffee. So back to drinking tea on and off throughout the rest of the day. No hot chocolate. No more coffee. Just tea. |
| Prompt: “The trees were still leafless, and the land had the desolate look of a February that seemed never to end.” Ernest Hemingway Where you live now, what does February look like as it steps in? February, my least favourite month. It is always the hottest month and the children return to school for the start of a new year after seven weeks break. But also things which have been on a break such as my writing group, choir and chair yoga all start up again which is mostly good although after a two month break one has tended to get a little lazy. |
| Prompt: If someone said "You've changed" to you, what would you think? Would this mean you’ve stopped living your life their way or just differently? Someone actually said this to me this morning. We were talking about a family member who has given me years of stress and worry. “You’ve certainly changed the way you react to her dramas these days,” the person said. I guess what she meant was I’d stopped buying into it, stopped trying to fix the unfixable and lowered my expectations. All these are for the better. Better for my stress levels and blood pressure. This all goes to prove even a very old dog can learn new habits. Let’s see if they continue. |
| Prompt: The last time I saw---- it's your entry have fun! I remember so well the last time I saw my mother. I had spent six weeks with her, staying with her, even sleeping with her, in her one bedroom apartment. We knew she was dying when I left Australia to be with her. I took my 12 year old daughter with me to say goodbye to her beloved Mamma. Mum was well enough to go out and still have fun. We laughed and cried and spoke about everything, said everything there was to say. And then it was time to leave. My brother collected us from Mums place to take me and my daughter to the airport. The last time I saw my mum she was standing at the gate waving. I turned to look through the rear window as we drove away and I told myself to take a mind photograph. I blinked hard, just like the shutter in a camera and I have that ‘photograph’ any time I want to look at my mum. I can see what she is wearing down to the last detail and can see her face, smiling through her tears. That was 30th August 1985. She died on December 27th the same year. |
| If you were given the opportunity to spend the day in a recording studio with a musician who would you choose and why? What song would you request they sing for you? If it’s one of today’s singing artists I haven’t a clue. But if I can return to the sixties in Liverpool and the Beatles, then a whole day spent with Paul would be tremendous. I think I was a little bit in love with Paul, his accent and his boyish face. I still think he’s one of the nicest musicians around. What I always appreciated was the way he stayed normal in the face of such media exposure and his children were brought up to be normal kids, out of the spotlight. He brought them up in the English countryside and they attended the local school there. It was so sad when he lost lovely Linda the love of his life. I guess if I had to choose just one song, then it would have to be Yesterday. |
| Prompt: Imagine you're opening your own writing-themed restaurant. Name it and provide a list of signature dishes. Be creative! Maybe I’d call my restaurant Shakespeare’s. It would attract the cultured type of customer I think. Or maybe Hemmingway’s. The dishes on the menus would definitely have to appeal to the poetic palette. Entrees: Punctuation Pate. Freshly Formatted Fish Main: Grammatical Goose Pie. Show but don’t tell! Dessert: Dialogue Date Delight. Point of View Pudding |
| Prompt: What do you think is the most economical way to get work done? Do it yourself? Barter? Hire someone? If you've done a project recently, could you give us some ideas to help us tackle our own future projects easier. Well in monetary terms doing it yourself is the way to go, but only of course if you are able to do it. I keep telling my husband the time is coming when we’ll have to employ someone to help with our big garden. He’s definitely banned from roofs and ladders now but we’re fortunate in having a strong son-in-law who is happy to help out (if my husband agrees to let him) It’s difficult to come to terms with having to outsource anything when you’ve always been able to do it yourself. If I had the choice and the money these are the things I’d outsource. Window cleaning Oven cleaning Car cleaning Mopping I don’t mind vacuuming, in fact I find it therapeutic 😂 |
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