In an era where so many of us consume far far more than we create… here’s me creating at last. My writing is like my mind and my life is a mirror reflection of that; I’m obsessed with a million different things, from trying to master a pull up to speaking fluent French; Vipassana meditation […]
It’s really quite simple. (Which isn’t the same as easy, by the way.) The key to falling in love and not falling back out of it is this: Pay attention. When you pay attention, you’ll actually notice the incredible scent of wisteria wafting on the gentle May breeze or the ferns curled up tightly like […]
Drum roll……. I wrote a book! I published the book! And I finally, fiiiiinally released the book on April 24th at a very special book launch that was one of the best evenings of my life. The venue was perfect, the food was delicious, so many of my friends and family made the effort to […]
I don’t know how to change it all. I don’t know how to stop the bombs, the brutal and constant assault of a land and its people, the daily killings, the fresh waves of soul-searing grief ripping through those left alive. I don’t know how to stop humans hurting other humans. I wish I did. […]
As lockdown progressed, I soon realised that if I was to survive being stuck at home with few positive distractions then I was going to have to choose carefully between eating myself into a whole new wardrobe or getting my unfit body back into shape. Thankfully for my body and my wallet, I chose fitness.
These daily scribbles are going to have be renamed “whenever-I-get-a-chance” scribbles… almost two weeks now since I last wrote one. The trouble is that the only real opportunity I’ve had to write has been in the evenings once Bowie is asleep and usually I’m so tired and fuzzy-eyed that I can’t muster up the energy […]
I have been M.I.A. the past ten days; so much so, you’d be forgiven for thinking I’d abandoned these daily scribbles once again. Not so my friends! I just had so much going on – from helping my husband over the Jazz weekend to breast scans to a barely-squeezed-in coffee-date to sleepless nights (yes, still, […]
I can’t imagine I’m going to write anything too special tonight, I was tempted to leave off today’s scribble but as I’d already missed yesterday’s one I figured I should write something. It’s crazy the effect tiredness has on you, from your mood to your energy; I spent most of this afternoon getting so cranky […]
Today was one of the nicest days I’ve had in a long time. I went out for a walk with Alex and Bowie around 11 am. We got Bowie all wrapped up and cosy in his “eskimo” onesie and I nearly burst from the cuteness. We ended up walking a good long distance as we […]
And that’s probably the hardest thing about becoming a Mum for me, even harder than the lack of sleep: the sudden disappearance of time to yourself.
Coffee and Scribbles 