My GP says that my heart rate is consistently too high. Not my blood pressure, which is fine, but my heart rate. I’ve known that something has been not quite …

Give Your Love Away
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My GP says that my heart rate is consistently too high. Not my blood pressure, which is fine, but my heart rate. I’ve known that something has been not quite …
Early in the morning a song thrush trills and sings from the electricity cable. How the world can offer such beauty and ugliness all at once is a conundrum indeed. …
To the misfits and awkward ones; the ones who don’t quite fit in; the ones who are too quiet or too loud, who think too much and no doubt about …
If you’d have told me a year ago that I’d be having an actual meltdown over a compost bin, I never would have believed you. But you would have been …
My neighbour comes over to return a plate and tells me another story of how this hamlet was when she first came here forty three years ago. Back then, all …
Some way up ahead of me on the woodland trail was a small group of walkers. They’d stopped at a crossroads, chatting. As I got nearer, they set off again …
My dad recently had knee replacement surgery on his left knee. The surgery went well and he is at home recovering. My six-year-old twin nieces made him get well soon …
Between the living room and the kitchen is a narrow, steep staircase leading to the first floor. At the top of the staircase, the right-hand door takes you to the …
I wrote this two days after the beginning of the first lockdown in the UK (can you believe that’s almost two years ago?). I didn’t share it at the time …
Whenever I go for more than a week without writing to you (and to be honest even a week feels like too long), I feel disconnected from my true self. …