Written 9 September 2022 Grounded It’s been an awesome weekFloating on a chilled-out kind of highI’m chatting to everyoneFriendliness in constant supply It feels amazingI feel grounded and safeNot constantly hypervigilantWalking on eggshells most days I’ve felt this beforeYes, this much is trueThis beautiful expansionWhere only love shines through I named this part ‘Carys’My inner …
Category: All about Dogs
Bouncing back
Approximate reading time: 10 min All in all, it’s been a pretty good week:-) It started out a little crappy and then morphed into amazing….so I think that makes the week’s average a strong ‘pretty good’. 😉 So, let’s start with my date on Monday. Raymond and I matched over three weeks ago and we …
Her Royal Cuteness
Sorry, I have been AWOL. I don’t have much to report, really. I have been looking after Jersey for the last two weeks while trying to finish my dissertation, which is due in September. My head is all over the place… and the creative writing juices feel like they are running on empty. So, I …
That swear word ‘should’
Approximate reading time: 5 min I’ve lost my writing mojo. I think my dissertation is freaking me out too much. So far, I have had exactly zero responses to my reach out for participants for my study. For the love of God, surely I can’t be the only single 49-year-old female in the whole, entire …
Back in my garden
Approximate reading time: 7 min Happy Easter! It’s been a great week. It’s currently school holidays and I have been dog-sitting Jersey again. Good grief, I love that dog. Jersey will be your absolute best friend and then suddenly turn around and snap at you for no apparent reason. The second, after she has snapped, …
Saint Gayle to the Rescue
Approximate reading time: 18 min It has been a bit of an insane week. I am sitting in my bedroom, staring out at my garden and I feel like all I want to do for the next two days is SIT and DO NOTHING. My nervous system needs a little reboot. So, I thought I …
A whole spectrum of emotions
Approximate reading time: 16 min Apologies for being AWOL for a week. It’s been a busy Christmas. 😉 One of my oldest friends Michelle, who I have been friends with for 41 years, was visiting her family in the UK and I got to spend 3 days with her, which was AMAZING. It is worth …
Happy Halloween
Approximate reading time: 13 min About 4 years ago I published a blog post about how I desperately wanted to go to a Halloween House Party. I bought two second-hand wedding dresses in a charity shop in eager anticipation of the upcoming Halloween House Party that I had not yet been invited to. My best …
Unconnected dots
Approximate Reading Time: 6 minutes I’m back in the land of the positive. I can’t remember if I mentioned that I got my dissertation proposal back? I got 68% (The lowest I wanted was 68%, so I’m happy.) The feedback my lecturer gave me was very helpful except she said: “You seem to have a …
Everyone loves a little Biscuit
Approximate reading time: 3 min I’m back!! It feels like years since I sat down and wrote anything new. In my defence, I have been on holiday in South Africa for the last month…forcing me out of my room into the big wide world of human contact pretty much 24/7. It was amazing to see …