Category: random stuff
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Three Part Woman…
It occurred to me recently, that in order to be happy, there are three things I need to be and do every day. The three parts are Housekeeping: By which I mean doing the run of the mill jobs that keep the family engine running; feeding the family reasonably healthy food at appropriate times; keeping…
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Being a tart and settling down…
Are you a blog monogamist, or do you spread yourself around? There’s something about early September that puts me in a tizzy. I’m sure it’s some sort of throw-back to school days, when it was the month you headed back to school after the long holidays – a time of change. To be honest though,…
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Celtic Harp keeps me calm…
Another one of those mornings… If I have a routine, it is to do the daily domestic stuff, then grab a large mug of black coffee and sit down to read the latest posts from the bloggers I follow. For quite few months, I’ve been using Bloglovin and generally been really happy. It’s had moments,…
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Friendship Matters…
Yesterday, my best friend in the whole world – was fifty. This seems incredibly odd, as it feels like only weeks since we were haring around the Worcestershire countryside in a bashed up old mini, tasting freedom in the way that only eighteen year olds do. Now she’s a high flyer in Hong Kong and I’m a…
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Calming Quick Fix…
Well it works for me… I’m going through one of those phases where all your best laid plans end up going to the wall. Most days I start off with a fairly good idea of what I need/want to do, (I can be thoroughly well organised if I choose to be), but lately, I’ve come…
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Having A Good Time?
I’m trying hard, but this weather is really getting to me now… Being British, we went camping in the Peak District last week – it wasn’t actually raining when we set off, but it wasn’t long before the dark clouds rolled in and that was pretty much the story from then on. The lovely man…
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Walking Meditations & Whiplash
Ever since the girls got too big to want me to walk to school with them, I’ve found myself spending more and more time indoors, when what I really need, is to get out into the fresh air and go for a walk. Now I know it really isn’t difficult to put your shoes on…
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A Slightly Belated Happy Birthday
Mostly Motley is one year old. Happy Birthday! I’m slightly surprised on this incredibly wet May Day morning, to find that I’ve been blogging here for just about a year. Who said I couldn’t stick at things… Well, to celebrate, I’ve given the blog a bit of a facelift. Happy Beltane friends – hope the…
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Prague Spring
In which a city break to Prague produces a cultural overload. Last week, a few girlie friends and I, took a short break to Prague, Czech Republic. It was a belated birthday bash – we thought a quick culture fix might be just the thing for four middle-ish aged women. I’m ashamed to say that…
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Are You Moonstruck?
Are you feeling a surge of energy? Is your sap rising? Are you filled with the desire to get on with things? I’ve often wondered why my own energies vary so much from day-to-day. It has frequently made me wonder if I’m one of life’s flaky people. But there could be another possibility – it…
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A Time For Remembrance and Reflection
When I was at high school back in the 1970’s, we studied the First World War, as part of our English course – reading the War Poets, performing Oh What A Lovely War. Some of us interviewed veterans of the First War and wrote up pieces about their experiences. We almost all had grandparents living,…
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Cawdor Castle, Oh, Yes Please…
I have to be honest – I’m insanely jealous of the people who own Cawdor Castle. I first went there with friends in 1995 and from the moment I walked inside, I felt comfortable – it’s one of those places, where you feel that you could just slip off your shoes, and curl up in a…
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