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‘all flesh is grass’

June 15, 2011

‘all flesh is grass’...

movie poster from What Dreams May Come Due to onset of rubbish cold I didn’t leave the house all weekend. I managed to drag self to [...]

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sixty two

May 19, 2011

sixty two...

The last few weeks have been a happy vortex of warm, sunny days, long weekends, new and old friends. Our garden has been filled with the [...]

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digger murray’s

March 27, 2011

digger murray’s...

Me, wearing my Mickey Mouse hat, in the garden of Digger Murray’s (note: already reading) It’s a simple wooden house, maybe two or three bedrooms; even [...]

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thankful

November 25, 2010

thankful...

for the first coffee of the day, my knee-high brown leather birthday boots, my £2 woolly gloves. The coffee beans from Monmouth that Nic & Leonie left, [...]

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mothering sunday

May 9, 2010

mothering sunday...

www.marriedtothesea.com Like a magpie, I seem to find pairs and pairs of earrings that would be perfect for Mum, and just a few years ago a [...]

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christmas travelly-trip

December 24, 2009

christmas travelly-trip...

Mum and me, Christmas 1974 Gatwick Airport is like a time warp to the less salubrious parts of the Soviet Union. Hardly festive, but it does [...]

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a letter to my late mother on thanksgiving

November 25, 2009

a letter to my late mother on thanksgiving...

The knowledge that you are no longer here is a sudden raw sadness that strikes at odd times. Strangely, I have been irrevocably changed for the [...]

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steel magnolias

September 16, 2009

steel magnolias...

I can’t remember a time when Mary wasn’t around and Mum met Prue about 20 years ago. I would periodically find them all in the kitchen [...]

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60

May 19, 2009

60...

The 20th of May, should have been all about Mum celebrating her 60th birthday. She used to turn this up loud and do the hoovering.

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who’s afraid of lucy jordan?

March 8, 2009

who’s afraid of lucy jordan?...

Marianne Faithful was on Andrew Marr this morning. She is TOTALLY on my fantasty dinner party invitation list. I listened to Broken English hundred’s of times [...]

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anniversarius horrendous

December 9, 2008

anniversarius horrendous...

It was about 4 months after she had actually died, that I realised Mum was really gone. I was standing at the Terminal 3 arrivals gate, [...]

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lucky number 9

November 24, 2008

lucky number 9...

The last holiday I had with Mum was a weekend in Tuaranga for a family friend’s 40th. For those few days, a weird pattern began to [...]

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