• Ella and the Art of Safety

    I’ve written lot about my chickens, how they burst into my life and insisted on teaching me to expand, to grow, to learn to love, to learn to change, to learn to trust, to learn to accept, to heal. Each of them fixed a beady eye on me and demanded that I evolve. When they arrived, a skinny, scabby, shabby, scrawny huddle…

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Expectation is the Mother of Creation

I had a little paper snippet I carried around in my Franklin Covey paper planner (showing my age) that I’d cut out of Reader’s Digest a million years ago. Placed under an embroidery cat from a card my sister had given me I carried it for…
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The Circle: a lesson in perspective

I absolutely love The Circle, and if there was ever a program made for lockdown, surely this was it. I was delighted that we had another series and I watched my recording avidly every morning, busy messaging Debs without any spoilers. Once…
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RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: the Performance of a Lifetime

“You need to write something uplifting”, Gary announced after reading my last blog, after the usual complaints about my Gary bashing. Uplifting? Gary? I actually went back to him before I started writing to make sure I had remembered…