Dipping Into The Water Butt

You can call me old-fashioned if you like, I don’t mind. In fact, I’ll even take it as a compliment because I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be living the ‘modern’ lifestyle with all its stress and expenditure. Don’t worry, I’ve been there so it’s not as if I don’t know what it’s like.
Almost […]

I was chatting with my 18-year-old and a couple of her friends earlier and it left me thinking about our values, and how they change throughout life.
At 18 her values seem set in stone. Although she knows they’ll change as she gets older, she can’t imagine it happening. How could she ever feel differently about […]

While making dinner today I got to wondering how man first discovered that certain things were edible. I mean… who first thought of boiling an egg? Or squeezing a cows udders and drinking what came out? Who first took the chance on boiling a potato and eating it even though raw potatoes make you ill? […]

I was 27 and living on a farm in the middle of nowhere. My son was 9 and I had a year old daughter.
The house was a right old ramshackle place – so much so that the bathroom was down in an old, dark and damp cellar, there was no hot water and the window […]

So very tired…
Why don’t I just go to bed?
Too many ghosts…
Why do they always come out at night?
Go away and talk elsewhere!
G’nite xx
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I’m going out later. I need an hour with somebody who laughs with me. I don’t care whether that’s because I’ve made a tit of myself, because they can tell a funny story or because we just bounce off each other, just as long as we can laugh together. I need to SHARE laughter.
There’s too […]

It’s the height of summer and everybody’s having fun. I’m wearing a bottle green satin skirt that’s long and very full. Thinking I’d be safe, I decided to go without knickers and let some air get to ‘things’.
Whoosh! A gust of wind sweeps in from the sea and my skirt’s lifted over my head. Everything […]

We were twelve and we were in love. Yes, I know it isn’t the same as the love we feel as adults but everything’s relative to experience and I’m telling you, WE WERE IN LOVE!
Football in the yard, a smashed hairbrush, snogging in the attic room, nicking beer out of the bottle room, long telephone […]

Another memory pulled from the pot, this time with the aide of Richard, ex live-in partner, present… err… boyfriend? Well, some kind of relationship, anyhow
I can’t remember how long ago it was we met and I certainly can’t tell you when this happened, although I’m sure Richard will be able to. He’s always […]

I had another blog for a while that I was using purely to record my memories on. Eventually I decided that keeping two blogs was too time consuming and that I’d use this to record memories as well as rant, discuss, tell jokes, etc. The memoirs bit has kinda died off though and it was […]