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The Monday Moment: Saying Yes!
This week I have started up my running again after taking the winter off. I only started this running thing last year, having foolishly committed to run 5km to fundraise for our local hospice. Up to that point running was something I did under sufferance at school and avoided at all other times. ‘I’m built… (read more)
Monday Moment: Your story. Six words.
In the 1920s, so the story goes, Ernest Hemingway bet ten dollars that he could write a complete story in just six words. He wrote: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.” In 2007 Larry Smith, founder of Smith, the American online magazine, used the Hemingway anecdote to inspire his readers to write their life story in… (read more)
The Monday Moment: what’s on your list?
This weekend I had the immense pleasure of a visit from an old friend who I had last seen six years ago (yes six! We couldn’t believe it either) and who I’d lost touch with until recently. I met her at a very bizarre time in my life when I was in a short-lived and… (read more)
Monday Moment: How do we silence ourselves?
This weekend I went to see The Artist. A super film and a real reminder that you don’t need 3D and a zillion special effects to create a great movie. Whether it deserved all the hype, I’m not convinced, but it was well worth seeing – if only for Uggie the dog who really does steal… (read more)
Then and now!
Well here we have it. The ‘Tina joins Pixieland’ pictures. So last year …. So this year… temporarily a pixie but the bob will be back! And these… I just love ‘em! Thank you Bev Perkins for a fabulous set… (read more)
It’s never too late to find your own voice
Drinking my night time cuppa and flicking through a lovely book called Wise Women – A Celebration of Their Insights, Courage and Beauty, I came across a picture of a most beautiful woman: Phyllis Silverman. This is the wisdom she had to share… ‘This is a great period of my life. My challenge now is… (read more)
Grey in, grey out!
The going grey thing is quite a journey of discovery. I figured that there might be some adjustment in the colour department but there are one or two adjustments I hadn’t bargained for. Now my hair is charcoal grey, I can’t wear charcoal grey – at least not near my face without another strong colour… (read more)
A Monday Moment – Thoughts on hibernation
Winter at The Cottage Yesterday was definitely a hibernation day. The snow caused a change of plan and so I allowed myself to just go with my flow. Write a little, sleep a little, walk dogs, feed horses, write a little more. Yes I have a million things I could have been doing in this… (read more)
I am a pixie – until I grow out of it
Well I took the plunge. On the journey of the going grey gradually, I came to a cross roads and took a sharp left into the land of the pixies. I am not sure I like it here but I am sure there will be lots to learn as I grow. The first lesson I… (read more)
Fading to grey (gradually)
I am now about 10 weeks into the journey of going au naturel . I’ve had a shortish crop so I can grow out the fading colour more quickly and now my actual colour is coming through. I won’t be quite as white as I thought I might be – there is still quite a lot of… (read more)