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If you were given the choice to spend £250 ($400) on one dress or £250 on one dress, a jacket, shoes and accessories what would you do? Add to the mix that the money isn’t yours. In fact, not only is it not yours, it’s not anyone’s. That works because you are being given the items for […]
Amberley Cow Hunt What’s a Cow Hunt when it involves children and adults alike and 30 wooden cut-outs on a Spring afternoon? In Amberley, Gloucestershire it’s a fund-raising event for the local school. The third annual Cow Hunt event took place the weekend of the 7th and 8th May. The hunt is inspired by the annual release of […]
When my eldest daughter started at her sixth form college, after years of private school, she got labelled “posh”. For one thing she said “prep” instead of “homework”. Posh kids say “mummy I haven’t got any prep tonight.” Apparently. I bought her one of those old school badges you can get in novelty shops that […]
Don’t you just hate the whole “new year’s resolution” thing? Eat less, go to bed early, learn a language, run a marathon. It’s like a beauty queen promising world peace. Not a chance.
Mono-chrome Memories There is an ochre and crimson multi-coloured crinkling carpet under my feet I’m spinning round and round beneath the wind swept trees Almost barren now with just their branches reaching out for the last remnants of winter’s light Arms wide open, hair pulled tightly in bunches, fingers spread to the sky Nose and […]
