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Fragility
I want to write about fragility, but the words are elusive as the subject matter. I read a post, a few weeks ago, about embracing fragility and my ears have been burning ever since. Both the word and...
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A hundred and one beautiful things
I got hung up last week about a few things that weren’t going in the direction that I wanted them to go in, when a special someone reminded me not to forget about the other beautiful things - There are...
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A summer holiday
I went to watch Madame Butterfly in Trafalgar Square last night because I have never been sure about opera and I am still doing my everything once. They had a huge screen underneath Nelson’s Column,...
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Holding on to yourself
I have spent most of the past few months looking for things to hold onto. There has been so much rapid change that it has felt, at times, as though I fell down a gap somewhere along the way. The points...
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The 101 Things Challenge
For anyone who’s managed to escape my million tweets and FB updates (congratulations!!), I’ve started a new site. It’s a bit different from what I’ve done before. It’s about doing, rather than...
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Bookshelves
I am drawn to bookshelves. It’s one of the first places I look whenever I visit someone’s house. You can find out a lot about a person, I think, from what they’ve got on their bookshelves and it often...
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Intuition
Last year, I had one of those psychometric personality test things for work. One of the things that it highlighted was a strong sense of intuition and how important this was for me. I’ve been thinking...
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The End of the World
A few days ago I went to a talk on the end of the world. It sounds like a morbid choice of Wednesday night entertainment but I thought it might help me to shift some of the panic that thinking …...
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Stretching time
I finished The Time Traveler’s Wife a few weeks back. It has been tugging at the corner of my mind since then, not quite done with. I have been interested in time for a while now. In how it stretches …...
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Words and worlds
I have missed writing. It feels like there is a gap, somewhere. As though something has been muffled. I am not sure what has been muffled. The reason I have not been writing is because I have not had...
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Back again.
It is funny that, despite stopping my 101 things challenge before I hit the target, I have lived the last 6 months as though I was still packing 101 things in. Maybe it took only 40 or so actual...
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Cantina
Last night I went to see Cantina at the Southbank. It was the best circus I’ve seen for a while and I am a self-confessed circus addict. I have a (very very long) post in progress on the very subject,...
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Telephone box spotting
I have been telephone box spotting. It is funny how, when you start looking for something, you notice hundreds that you’ve managed to ignore before. Unfortunately, it’s not the ordinary ones I’m...
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My London
‘The Waste Land’ is one of my favourite poems. Even before I started to unpick the meaning, I fell in love with the sound of the words, with its rhythm. On Monday night, I went to a talk entitled...
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Louie
This weekend, my sister had her second baby. He is called Louie, spelt with almost all the vowels. 7 pounds 3, super cute with Chinese eyes and a hint of my sister’s mouth in his pout, dressed in the...
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A random evening hearing about Julian Maclaren-Ross
Until Monday night, I had never heard of Julian Maclaren-Ross. Four years of English literature and – until the Internet fried my concentration – years of avid reading, and he’d never crossed my radar....
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Rain. Again.
It has been raining for months in England, far longer than the 40 days required to float the Ark. At the moment, it feels relentless. There are occasional spells of sunlight when you can feel the mood...
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Finding Melissa again
One of the reasons that I stopped writing Finding Melissa a few years ago was that I felt like I had finally found Melissa. That I had rebuilt a life and that I was no longer so submerged in an …...
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Seasons
The September nights are drawing in and summer has disappeared again. I can’t imagine what it is like to live without seasons. I complain, bitterly, when the days start drawing in and there is a chill...
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The consolation of philosophy?
It is ironic that I have called my blog ‘no such thing as never’ when, at the moment, I am so aware that there is a “never”. Life ends. I am not very good with the thought of death. Whilst … Continue...
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