I wrote this as a comment on Glow, that amazing wonderful place that has held me together over the last year. I’m copying it here to remind myself, on the days when the empty and dark feelings have me by the throat and won’t let go and when it seems that life, any amount of […]
Trains…
The kids have been reasonably pleased with the whole “Night Mail” thing and have done some great work on it. I’ve not done photos yet but Maddy has done an amazing snippet of poem to fit into it:- “And though the country is very vast, she’ll never get lost, she’ll keep going fast. She’ll follow […]
The Gallery: April
As things go, the Gallery provided too many opportunities for reflection this month. Too many I couldn’t walk past: they felt like a summons. But April hasn’t been a sad month, after all, it has been a happy month, one that has helped me see how lucky I am, even if it takes a certain […]
It's the Fork that Counts.
This one is for MTJAM (and the title is for my brother and sister). Emily wrote about Accidental Parenting and how she has inadvertently let her children develop a habit of nude baked beans. I’m not sure what to make of her comment that my accidental parenting is more deliberate (certainly Max would say that […]
Poetry Study: Night Mail by W. H. Auden
Last Wednesday was one of our new Co-op-Ed days (which I will blog!) but I did another poem with the each of the older/younger groups. I’m loving doing this, I think it is the first time I have felt properly useful in the group in the whole time we’ve been going and it has made […]
In the end
I committed to a post a day through April and so here is the last of them. I can’t honestly do better than a song, one I love and which makes me cry but which also makes me smile wistfully. I am sad tonight. Freddie, I miss you so much. I wanted to watch you […]
Made it.
We made it. Made it through April, made it through all the dates, made it through a birthday and a death day and a funeral day and a heap of horrible other days. Still upright. Not really whole, but not broken, or not more broken anyway. A month ago it felt like I had to […]
The Gallery: Green
I’ve got out of the habit of new things; new clothes, new places, new people. Until last week I was wearing all the same clothes I wore before and during being pregnant. I hung on to them, the top I wore when he was born, the top I was wearing when he died. I don’t […]
Royal Wedding Easy Kids Craft in Hama Beads
When I was at school, one of my teachers used to call me “the late Miss Taylor” – as you can see, I’m not renown for being on time or early, so my Royal Wedding craft is suitably too late to actually drum up sales. Ah well 🙂 The girls did these designs today; I’ll […]
Omens
The Magnolia tree given to us by friends from old Yahoo groups has flowered. One of the branches reaches out into the garden. If I still believed in signs and omens, one branch, with four open flowers, a flower that nearly opened and a bud might seem like a promise. Or it might seem like […]
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