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If  you were going to be murdered, would you prefer to be stabbed twice in the stomach or get tickled to death? Just another run-of-the-mill question between mother and teenage son on Thursday evening.  Bless him, he wouldn’t dream of forcing me to surrender my life for a form of murder that didn’t please me. I didn’t need to think about my answer anyway.  Can I take the double stabbing please?  Getting tickled to death is a really horrible way to die.  Behind the ear-splitting shrieks of laughter you are choking to death, and everyone looks on, smiling, thinking you’re [...] Read more »

So it was decided that J would spend the weekend with his dad, the chap who used to be my husband.  He was quite eager to go which pleased me.  Not that I was looking forward to being without him but it pleased me that they like each other enough to want to spend that time together doing boy things. I had enough to be getting on with anyway.  My ex had brought round quite a bevy of boxes of my shit which I wanted to go through and clear out – bin it, send it to the charity shop [...] Read more »

I took a walk into  town today in order to do a few little errands.  How joyous those words, “walking into town”.  In reality nothing more exciting than popping into the bank in this humdrum provincial town but as I got ready I felt as happy as a prisoner released from prison after 8 years solitary confinement. The sky was overcast but it was a mild enough day.  I scooped up my selection of empty glass bottles, dropped them in my hessian shopping bag and went out.  Quite the little housewife.  First stop the bottle bank, conveniently right on my [...] Read more »

I was on a call tonight with Linda Claire Puig about creating subject lines for your emails.  Interesting stuff.  Early on in the call she was sharing a question she had recently been asked: Do you believe that a moment can make a lifetime? Linda Claire, from California, shared with us that she was presenting the call from Italy where she is living for 5 months, fulfilling a long-held dream.  She was able to do this, she said, because she makes a 6 figure income from her business (helping people write their newsletters).  What a fabulous outcome (and income) and [...] Read more »

Although I had a mountain of work to get through today, I was pleased all the same to get an early morning call from ‘the bould Berni’ telling me she was on her way into town and would pop in to pick up some bits and pieces her son had left behind after his weekend visit. Berni, let me explain, is my sister-in-law; we married two brothers, our weddings just a couple of weeks apart.  Start thinking ‘Thelma and Louise’ and you won’t go far wrong. We lived in different countries at that time and I wasn’t overly keen on [...] Read more »