Fifty Posts

1. My laptop My laptop is not as it should be, even after a new hard drive was installed. Nothing is back where it belongs and I’m missing emails and documents and my sanity. Particularly infuriating is that the page now moves up and down in the opposite way it did before. THIS most of…

1. Gorse is good Today I learnt gorse, that rampant prickly bush covered in yellow flowers, was not as I’d understood it to be, an out-of-control pest killing all our native fauna. In factuality, it allows plants that prefer more shadow than light to flourish and bees love it. Hence, yes hence, it’s absolutely marvellous…

1. The TV dad I can’t help it, my vote’s for Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) of Shameless. I figure no matter how low he scrapes the bottom of the barrel he’ll always eventually, in his own way, get behind his fabulously dysfunctional family. (And I do like a good dysfunctional family.) Also if we…

1. I still can’t sleep I am taking a Game of Thrones size army of drugs and still waking through the night, most nights. For a while there I thought we (me and my non-chatty psychiatrist) were getting there. I had a couple of nights where I slept for six hours. In a row! I…

1. I’m not going to lie It wouldn’t be right But due to hysteria I’m keeping it light 2. Putting out a newsletter While laptop-less and stressy Isn’t helped by the fact It all got a bit messy 3. There’s two spelling mistakes Last para, first part An absolute no-no Right at the start So…

1. Angry yogis I’ve noticed over the last week or so a new person in class whose frustration is quite vocal. There is a lot of huffing and puffing and sighing and outright groaning. It doesn’t actually bother me for some reason (you know I’d be ALL over it if it did), but I do…

1. Can’t remember any words of songs But! But, I can recall every single concert I’ve ever been to and how I felt. And some people can’t, you know. That’s because I never inhaled. 2. Random people There are these people who are firmly ingrained in my memory. Why, I don’t know. Our brief overlapping…

1. Smile At the person who puts their mat down next to you. (No matter how close.) At dog owners. At the mirror. 2. Thanks To whoever lets you pull into a traffic queue. (I go big with the exaggerated mouthing.) To the person who packs your bags at the supermarket. To every person who…

1. I am a little panicked Because I’m going away in less than two weeks and I don’t know where to start. I need to sort out what I need to get done before I go, how I work while I’m away and what’ll be waiting for me when I get back. And what to…

1. I’ll be popping a rock in my bag, possibly my bra Went on my first crystal expedition today. I was more excited than I thought I’d be and could’ve gone way crazy over all those stunning stones. I went in knowing not much and came out knowing a bit more. A tiger’s eye for…