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Tra la, tra lee, a gardener’s life for me.
Oh gosh, Penelope, let’s put on our flowery wellies and dainty cotton gloves and skip into the garden where we shall accomplish a bit of light pruning before scones for tea with lashings of clotted cream! What awfully jolly larks! Penelope, my imaginary English gardening friend, has a perfect complexion, a comprehensive knowledge of horticulture, [...]
How to write: Soar high, sing loud.
Today, my chickadees, we are taking a lesson in writing from nature. Yes, nature, that great free-yet-dwindling resource that doesn’t require a membership fee despite a great deal of preferring you didn’t dump your empty vodka bottles hither and thither all over its glory. Whilst picking up empty vodka bottles on the beach this morning [...]
The Sea, The Sea
I love London, I really do. I love the way our neighbourhood feels like a village and I run into people I know whenever I walk the dogs or go to the shops. And how I can get on the tube and be in the middle of town in ten minutes, where there are restaurants [...]
Battle Hymn of the Lemur Mother
You gotta love those tiger mothers. Slaving night and day to make sure their children debut at Carnegie Hall before their twelfth birthday. Admirable, obviously, but they do make life hard for themselves. Lemur mothers, on the other hand, lead quiet peaceful lives, uninterrupted by tantrums about violin practice, exam revision, or panic that a [...]
My subconscious and I get to talking
MEG: OK. So the guy in the book has disappeared. Why has he disappeared? SUBCONSCIOUS: How should I know. M: What kind of an answer is that? Think! Why would a middle aged guy with a good job, a beautiful house and a new baby just walk out, just like that? S: It’s your book. [...]
Train of thought.
Yesterday, on my way to the park with the dogs, I passed a woman in tight jeans bent over a child in a buggy. She set off this train of thought. Wow, she’s too skinny. What was the line from that movie, years ago, you know, the one where Harrison Ford calls Sigourney Weaver a [...]
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