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Continue reading →: The thin girl within…
This afternoon I was having a bit of a clear out and came across some old photos; photos I’d prefer never saw the light of day again…specifically, photos of me in days past, heavier, fatter, unhappier. They say that every woman has an inner fat girl trying to fight her…
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Continue reading →: Never forsaken, never forgotten.Ever feel like you’re being squeezed? Between a rock and a hard place? Stuck in the middle? Or any other metaphor for just simply going through a rubbish time? Yes…me too…especially at the moment. The details aren’t important, but last week after a few days of (unsuccessfully) navigating my way…
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Continue reading →: A horrible dream…I had a really busy day yesterday and ended it at the gym, determined to take out my stresses on the poor old treadmill, rather than take them home. Exercise, in a weird way, is a bit like worship to me. I plug myself into my iPod and get lost…
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Continue reading →: There’s no point in going to Church….
…is there? Last year, I decided I really needed to put down some roots and get myself a church home. Seems like fairly basic stuff, I know, but life circumstances, lots of travelling etc, had left me hanging as a bit of a spiritual wanderer. I always went, just not…
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Continue reading →: My mum is amazing…
A few weeks ago, I blogged about my amazing dad. On Monday, it is my mum’s birthday, so it seems only right to honour Mum for all her coolness and general amazingness too. Where to start? In my old job, I travelled lots. Every month or two and I was packing a…
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Continue reading →: The Bible and horoscopes…
Recently, I was skipping through religious TV channels and paused to take a sip of tea, just as a man-with-too-big-hair pointed his bejewelled finger at the camera and said; ‘God’s told me that if you, yes YOU, give to us, then within days…. and I mean, DAYS (repeated for extra…
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Continue reading →: Snow , sleet, ice and plenty of murderous thoughts.
I quite like the snow; the perfect blankety whiteness first thing in the morning, kids being pushed/pulled in sleds and the sheepish smiles and the feeling of, ‘we’re in this together’ between neighbours, as we tramp through the snow drifts. This morning, I stepped out into aforementioned ‘perfect blankety whiteness’…
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Continue reading →: Surviving the worst thing in the world…
I had an amazing day and through a series of coincidences, over a cup of coffee, I got chatting to a visitor, who told me his story. The conversation started off by comparing notes on countries we’d been to, places we’d seen and then, next thing you know, he’s telling…
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Continue reading →: I got a tattoo…
A couple of months ago, I got a tattoo. I’d been thinking about it for quite a while – and I always knew that if I did it, it would be a Bible verse. It’s the only permanent thing I’d want on my skin – the one thing that never…
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Continue reading →: Death, divorce and a happy ending
I’m sitting on the edge of my hotel bed in Nepal, with the room curtains flung wide open. It’s a huge window and outside in the clear, night sky, a thousand stars are twinkling away over the top of the Himalayas, the crickets are chirruping madly and I’m perched here,…







