Cancer Free Friday: good heart and right spirit
I wrote yesterday about how difficult I find it to enjoy poetry because I’ve got very used to seeing how it works. On a similar theme, let me tell you, trainers can make nightmare delegates on training...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: I’ll take the train
I travel around the UK a lot with training work, and over the last few weeks I’ve put some serious miles in. And here’s what I’ve decided. I LOVE trains. Not in an excited-small-boy sort of a way, but...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: whale watching
I’m about to show you a picture of me with my brace of beautiful nieces. You’ll notice something a bit different about me, if you look closely. That’s right. I’m wearing a new hat. Cute, huh? Emily...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: Quiet
I am having a quiet day today. And so I give you two and a half minutes about the need for the quiet people. Please watch it to the end. Not only is it brilliant, but you will see one of the Best Names...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: making mincemeat
Every December, this happens: 1. I go to a nice Christmas lunchy event somewhere. 2. The food is really good. 3. Then they bring the coffee and mince pies. And the mince pies are, generally, not so...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: low
As you may have picked up, I’m struggling with life a little at the moment. There are no major new issues; just a lengthening period of minor annoyments. I miss little Flora terribly. Some people who I...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: sequin love
It started when my good, serviceable, black shoes wore out. They weren’t anything special, but they went with lots of things, and they were easy and comfortable, and when it came to replacing them, I...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: let’s go fly three kites
I remember many a summer holiday afternoon spent running up and down a caravan site with my Dad and brother, a kite bumping along the ground behind us. The only time we ever got a kite in the air, I...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: more reasons for knitting
So, I was thinking of what I could add to the 2010 list from yesterday. Here goes. 10. Knitting helps me to think. This is my current Thinking Sock, which lives in the studio, and shows you what 20,000...
View ArticleCancer Free Friday: Danish String Quartet
A couple of weeks ago, I went with Alan and Beloved Auntie Susan to hear the Danish String Quartet play. They were fabulous. They didn’t play this piece of music, but this little film gives you a sense...
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