Going Gently

  This sprawling political thriller set in 1970s Brazil is exhausting but in a good way. I cannot begin to explain the plot but suffice to k...

 My heart rules most of my decision making, it always has, but there are times you have to listen to that Jiminy Cricket voice in your head ...

Lovely day today.  Simple pleasures, a lovely roast dinner at The Crown with a friend , then some mindless cinema with the awful but enterta...

 Somebody I know died suddenly in the village this morning.  Apart from knowing who it is and the fact they were young and liked , I am awar...

 I went to a lecture on transactional analysis today. Invited by my personal counsellor, the old Irish therapist who was leading the proceed...

 I’ve come to Bridgerton late and rather enjoyed the “ BOUNCY DANCE “ the other day  I’m catching up with the raunchy going on today …. Weav...

  With a new bulldog on the way, I think it’s time we revisited one of my most flamboyant girls, in this piece written a day after she died ...

 Out of duty my elder sister Ann and I went to my second cousin’s funeral this afternoon. It was forty years since I had last met her, less ...