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Hot town, summery in the city - 2017

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November 10, 2018

No jo mo dhjetë

I’m a tour guide and have to ensure someone has the bestest time and have the goodest memories EVAH!! So, where would I be and what memories would I hope to leave them with? I’ve done the old tou...


November 09, 2018

No jo mo neuf.

Not so much a story as setting a scene. Today the prompt said to write a story with the words: barrage, revolutionary, golden, scar and research. With a barrage of hate filled spew, the vitriolic...


November 08, 2018

No jo mo acht

If I could go to an alternative timeline or reality, where would it be? I could go all political and serious on your arses but this isn’t friends only and could suck in all sorts of effwits and t...


November 07, 2018

No jo mo siete

I was pondering today’s question: who makes a good role model for both males and females. I decided I knew the best place to find an answer so, on the walk to school this morning, I asked my youn...


November 06, 2018

No jo mo 6

If a film was made of my life, what genre would it be and who would play me? Well, I’m not being funny but I’ve been around for (almost (in four weeks exactly) 48 years and my life has been throu...


November 05, 2018

No jo mo 5

A letter written to me by someone who doesn’t like me. Dear Miss, Why you always having a go at me man? Just coz the school says we isn’t supposed to climb the trees. Just coz that stupid kid fel...


November 04, 2018

No jo mo 4

“People would think that I’m exaggerating, but until…” … They invented a time machine, they would never know the truth. You see, when I was 23, I left all that I knew. I left my hometown, my fam...


November 03, 2018

No jo mo trois

Are there any public holidays on my birthday and if there are, would I celebrate them? As all my long term friends know, I’m still appalled that my birthday hasn’t been made into an international...


November 02, 2018

No jo mo 2

Today’s prompt is, essentially, how would you sack someone… If you ran a business and had to close one department, which department and how would you write the letter? Well, as I’m in the middle...


November 01, 2018

No jo mo...

I had forgotten it was here! Allegedly we should create our own survey for you to answer in comments and me to answer as part of the entry. so here goes! You have unlimited money and time. Base...


WHERE: in the bath, which desperately need to be re-enameled (still). Relaxing after a long, tiring but fun day. WEARING: hey, I’m in the bath dudes!! Three blister plasters (half marathon injury...


August 26, 2018

Survey time!!

How old will you be in five years? I will be 52, and still behaving slightly immaturely. How tall are you? 5 feet and 6 inches. I was very tall at school and really wished that I was smaller. t...


August 06, 2018

She's home.

Yes, T was supposed to return on Thursday but I went to pick her up (from the Brecon Beacons) today. She didn’t want to stay any more. sigh.


August 04, 2018

KEEEEEVVVVVIIIIIINNNNN!!!

Also known as Home Alone. Me, that is. In my house (actually garden) with no one else here. Not a single. other. person. Well, there are the cats but they’re draped in shady, cool spots inside. ...


July 31, 2018

Ask me

As long as you don’t mind if I don’t answer!! Thinking of my running memoirs - what would you like to know about my running: past, present or future that I could write about? Ta!!


July 28, 2018

The survey

Stolen survey - Age: 47 and a half. B- Biggest Fear: Losing T to her demons and losing L in amongst helping T all we can. C- Current Time: 8:44am D- Drink you last had: Sainsbury own Kenyan fai...


It started on Monday (as weeks often do) with L saving a shot on goal at the beginning of her football training session. I arrived at the pitch with ten minutes to go and noticed that she was hol...


April 15, 2018

The Correspondents

Rich and I love going to gigs, nowadays it’s only a few times a year and, this past Friday, was an utterly awesome gig. We first saw The Correspondents at Womad in 2012. L had just turned 4 and T...


March 31, 2018

The inaugural...

…Cross posting. I don’t know where to write or if to write. I keep opening a ‘write’ box, over here and over there, then leaving it hovering, waiting and impatient, feeling used and impotent. B...


March 27, 2018

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So where are we going next guys? Back to OD? On to somewhere new? 😞


March 27, 2018

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So where are we going next guys? Back to OD? On to somewhere new? 😞


February 18, 2018

Kitchen renovations

With two ikea trips (panic attacks from T cut the first short so I went back once R got in from work) and advice from a friend (it often takes the eyes of someone who hasn’t been using the room f...


January 10, 2018

Other child’s birth

I can’t do it for one and not the other! Epidural? Only after she had been born, because my placenta needed to be removed manually. The doctor put a glove on up to his elbow and I didn’t look! (...


January 08, 2018

The first born survey.

Answer the questions about your FIRST born. The one who made you a mum! Epidural? Only after she had been born, because my placenta needed to be removed manually. The doctor put a glove on up to ...


👰Marriages: 2 - a mistake and the real deal! 💍Proposals: Hmmm, I’m not sure. There have been a few but I’m not sure they were all serious. Those that were serious would be 2. 🍼Children: 2 lovely,...


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Well, more of a town than a city …