First Impressions

I’m watching you sitting opposite me, but you are totally oblivious, you have no idea and I reckon you wouldn’t even care if you did. I saw you a few minutes ago, your bodies morphed into one as you both shuffled down the tunnel to catch the tube. His arm draped around your shoulders, both

Lost Friends

Ping – my phone ignites and I wonder if it’s you, Messaging me with an update on your life Sadly not, it’s been a while. I think of you often and wonder if you think of me too. I’m sure you don’t because you would call or message or find some way of reaching out.

The battle

The full glass stands on the table, solitary but powerful A leader in this battle Its magnetic force silent and unseen Will you be defeated? Will you surrender? Or will you fight back harder You are face to face with your enemy One false move and the battle is lost You give the dictator the

A Professional through and through

Last year I achieved a childhood dream – to meet Martin Shaw aka Doyle in The Professionals, Judge John Deed, The Chief and recently The Long Call. It happened by chance on a day trip to Duxford War Museum, in Cambridge, a favourite with my family. It was a beautiful day in August and we

Wealth?

Years ago, I was going through a bit of a rough patch, so I started reading ‘The Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne. Part of the healing process was to make a vision board. On the board you can put a picture of anything that you want in your life, whether it be a new house or

Embarrassing Moment

Many years ago, I worked in the account’s office of a shipping company in Lowestoft. Every lunch time I would walk home and sometimes on my way back to work one of the lads from the docks with a van would stop and give me a lift. We will call the man Anthony for the

Make someone smile

You’re too thin, you’re too fat You’re too tall, you’re too short You’re self-opinionated, you’re too shy You’re too loud, you’re too quiet You’re not caring, you’re too caring You talk too much, you don’t talk enough These are things I hear every day about people. Why can’t people appreciate people for who they are

Why do I care?

Why do I care what people think? Why do I care what people say? Why do I care if people are upset with me? Why? I wish I had the answer to this question. Is it in my DNA? Is it down to how I was bought up? Or is it just plain and simply,

Energy Company Greed

I am so angry that energy providers are once again hiking up prices to bail them out because oil prices have gone up, especially the major players. We are all taught to budget and put money away for a rainy day. Well this is their rainy day. British Gas profits rose to £172m for the

Forgettable

I’m about to sit down for a coffee with an old school friend, well I say that, but we weren’t actually friends at school, he was way too popular to talk to the likes of me. He was tall and sporty, and everyone knows the sporty ones are always popular. I was not – not

The business of being a nobody

Having spent the past 20 years not working I have sometimes felt like a nobody. I reckon 90% of my friends have no clue what I did for a living before becoming a full time Mum. When you meet people the first thing they say is “What do you do?” When you say I’m a

Lockdown writing

Oh errr, I’m now finding myself in the strangest of situations. One I thought I would never be in. I have procrastinated over writing for many years. Told family and friends I wanted to be a writer but never actually putting pen to paper. I sat down at my laptop many times only to get

Success

I am proud to say I have completed #3ChapterChallenge, writing 3 chapters in 3 weeks. I thought I wouldn’t manage it but it was easier than I thought. I have also been participating in #WRITE2021 and am pleased to say I am 95% of my way through the challenge and should be finished in the

Degrees of goodness

I was talking the other day to someone about degrees of goodness.  We all like to think of ourselves as good in principle, whether it’s charitable work, looking after someone or just not being a bad person in general. But is it so black and white? Just because you do charitable work does that make

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What is a miracle?

I’ve realised that miracles don’t have to be big things, they can be small and that doesn’t make them any less of a miracle. Miracles are all around us. In the Oxford dictionary it says “an act or event that does not follow the laws of nature and is believed to be caused by God”

2021

As we entered 2021 it was not with as much gusto as when we entered 2020. Little did we realise at the start of last year, what would be cast on us and that for many, life would change out of all recognition. The emotional cost has probably not been as bad as this since

The Text

I look at my phone, your words infiltrate me and I want to sterilise my phone. It feels infected by your words, but as hard as I try nothing will anaesthetise me from the harsh statements.  Your words have entered my conscious mind and they sting. Until enough time has elapsed and they enter my