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Dailies: Reminiscing, seedlings, Fraggle Rock, eggplant parm, Honeybunch of Onion Tops

October 21, 2026

If you’re reading this via email, your email provider might chop the end off. You can read the full post online. Tuesday 21 September GP appointment today. It’s always good to go and get a quick check in, have a quick chat, get my medical certificate and go on my way. I was up a 5 this morning, for Morning Pages and a very slow and very short walk around the block. It had been a few days, so there…

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Dailies: Charmian Clift, Rumer Godden, tomatoes on toast, weeding, quarter moon …

September 21, 2026
My Snuggle Stitch blanket work in progress

Thursday 10 September Gosh. It’s Thursday. The week is just burning by and I’m running after it in my slippers, curlers in my hair, hoping to catch up. Who’d think that a person who doesn’t participate in the workforce could still be tethered to the days of week. And yet I am. Somehow Saturday and Sunday always summon a looser feeling in my body, while the weekdays are buttoned up, layered with hopeful little tasks, many of which I will…

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Dailies: Jewels and Buddies, Middlemarch, fisherpersoncore, Evil Angels, tomato jam

September 9, 2026

Reading this post via email? Click here to access the whole post. Your email/read in browser option will likely chop the end off and you won’t see all of it reading that way! (Thanks Noelia for the head up on this! I had no idea!) Wednesday 26 August A 5.30 wake up today, and no coughing at all last night. I think I am finally mending! The luminous Dolly Parton has died, not long after her long-time husband, which is very sad.…

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A List of Reliable Joys – via Philippa Moore

August 31, 2026
Veggies from my garden in a pink colander on the grass

Reading this post via email? Click here to access the whole post. Your email/read in browser option will likely chop the end off and you won’t see all of it reading that way! (Thanks Noelia for the head up on this! I had no idea!) Yes of course when I saw Philippa Moore’s Substack-published A List of Reliable Joys I had to make a list of my own. Anything that harks back to the OG days of blogging will compel me to…

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Dailies: Hard lollies, sallow & weak girls, Marvin, Brief Encounter, “Hi Pip!”

August 25, 2026

Reading this post via email? Click here to access the whole post. Your email/read in browser option will likely chop the end off and you won’t see all of it reading that way! (Thanks Noelia for the head up on this! I had no idea!) Friday 15 August Ugh. Still very chesty and coughy. Never minddddd. Onward we go. Breakfast was two crumpets with peanut butter and a giant cup of tea. It was the perfect comforting fare after a…

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Share Your World (via Di)

August 18, 2026
Marlo Thomas in That Girl

NB: Reading this post via email? Click here to access the whole post. Your email/read in browser option will likely chop the end off and you may not see all of it reading that way! (Thanks Noelia for the head up on this! I had no idea!) Hello! Hi! So, I’ve been more-sick-than-usual over the last week, and thus I’m dipping into nostalgia – like blog games – to cheer myself up. Today I’m playing along with a little Q…

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73 Questions

August 14, 2026

This is a bit of fun, right? I found these questions over on Singing Gecko, who found them at Kari’s … who found them at Vogue. If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me (and possibly you!) Also there are a bunch of different Vogue 73 Question Lists floating about, but I am just gonna do this version, because I want to join in with these lasses! 1- What is your favourite time of day? The morning,…

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