Finally!! Bloody dolphins!

It's been a good week, all in all. The day after Oli's birthday, two friends came to spend some time with me. These girls I have known for a very long time.. one since I was 5 (that's fifty years... although, catch me on a more devious day and I'll tell you it's 40 years) and the other since I was 15 or so. There is something very comforting about old friends such as these, especially ones that you spent your informative years with.. they've seen every side of you, expe

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Later that day...

So.. all in all, it's been a good day. I've been strong and positive.. but there is a bit of a rub. I love this blog and it makes me feel so much better once I've put the contents of my brain on this site but by doing so, I put my life and feelings online.. that makes it sound really dramatic and it is totally not so.. I put my life online to those who want to read it... and there's not that many of you, which lowers the exposure massively! There is a handful of people

Jan 144 min read

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Finally!! Bloody dolphins!

It's been a good week, all in all. The day after Oli's birthday, two friends came to spend some time with me. These girls I have known for a very long time.. one since I was 5 (that's fifty years... although, catch me on a more devious day and I'll tell you it's 40 years) and the other since I was 15 or so. There is something very comforting about old friends such as these, especially ones that you spent your informative years with.. they've seen every side of you, expe

4 days ago3 min read

Later that day...

So.. all in all, it's been a good day. I've been strong and positive.. but there is a bit of a rub. I love this blog and it makes me feel so much better once I've put the contents of my brain on this site but by doing so, I put my life and feelings online.. that makes it sound really dramatic and it is totally not so.. I put my life online to those who want to read it... and there's not that many of you, which lowers the exposure massively! There is a handful of people

Jan 144 min read

Happy Birthday!

On this day, 24 years ago, I arrived at Heathrow Terminal 3 leaving behind a life in South Africa. I phoned Oli from a pay phone in the Terminal and told him that I had landed safely and that our new life together could finally begin. On this day, 17 years ago, Oli and I left our first marital home in Goodworth Clatford, Hampshire in a hired Luton Van and our Audi Estate to start our new adventure in a derelict old mill on a 20 acre smallholding in Gloucestershire. Oli dr

Jan 142 min read

Choose Life (Happy New Year)

In another life I think I would have made quite a good rock star. If I had, the title of this blog would have been track number eight on my second album. (Don't ask... I have no idea why!). Oli and I have lovely old school friends who we, for a period, went away with a lot. Doug did the eulogy at Oli's memorial and it was fabulous. Beautiful and funny... just like the big man himself (Oli, not Doug.. he's shorter). Anyway, Doug is very creative and takes brilliant p

Jan 14 min read

Go West!!!

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