Delegating, Abdicating, Collaborating, Co-Creating?
October 21, 2025 No CommentsPhoto my own, taken today. Julia’s stones. 19 June 2022 My next ten days are packed (packed for me, anyway). Quite a bit of work in the coming days. A dinner out with new-to-me-friends of Medjool’s. Some travel to England and then on to Scotland. (My first trip to the UK since before the world […]
Read MoreTalking to the Dog – Again
October 21, 2025 1 Comment16 June 2022 Photo of Black taken just now, in the shade of the evening… but you can see from the grass how hot it’s been Today, a sweltering hot-for-us day, as I turned up the stairs towards my home office and saw Black the dog outside in the garden, I called out to him, […]
Read MoreThree Years of Pleasure and Pain
October 21, 2025 No CommentsMain image by Zygimantas Dukauskas on Unsplash 12 June 2022 Yesterday, 11th June, is the day that Medjool has named “La Journée du ‘Oui’” (“’Yes’ day”). It is the day when, three years ago, in 2019, he chose me. I had already chosen him. Not chosen by default, simply because my sample size of prospective […]
Read MoreWhat You Should Know – revisited
October 21, 2025 No CommentsMain Image by Aron Visuals on Unsplash 6 June 2022 Italicised Section from Megan Devine: “I was talking the other day about the realities of the second and third years of grief. We have this erroneous (and stupid) cultural idea that grief will be over, or at least appreciably better, by the end of the […]
Read More“Worse Things Happen At Sea”
October 21, 2025 2 CommentsPictures my own – and scanned hymn from my dad 3 June 2022 Growing up in Brussels in the 1970s and 1980s, there were a couple of sea-related sayings that were oft quoted in our family. Not that we lived close to the sea. Though we did cross the English Channel and the North Sea […]
Read MoreSwimming Me Home
October 21, 2025 2 CommentsPhotos my own 30 May 2022 A few weeks ago, I was on a Swim Trek holiday in Mallorca, putting in some training for my “big swim” planned for the middle of July – crossing the Lac Léman/Lake Geneva at its widest point (13 km – a smidge over 8 miles). I do want to […]
Read MoreInspired by Rosemerry’s Daughter
October 21, 2025 2 CommentsPhoto by Juliane Liebermann on Unsplash 28 May 2022 I receive – and devour – the daily poems of the poet and storyteller, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. I first came across her work through Megan Devine’s weekly and monthly Writing Your Grief prompts. As is the way of the world, once you come across someone’s work, […]
Read MoreComfortably Run
October 21, 2025 4 CommentsAll photos my own and Medjool’s 22 May 2022 Edward’s 53rd Birthday Comfortably run. No, not a typo. Simply a not particularly brilliant nod to Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb”. I do indeed mean that I am comfortably run. By a 10 km road run. I am more than a little bit pooped. I can’t remember […]
Read MoreI Still Can’t Much Do Groups
October 21, 2025 1 CommentMain image by Duy Pham on Unsplash 15 May 2022 I am coming to the end of a lovely short week’s holiday in Mallorca, taking part in an open water swimming camp, geared around being able to swim 10km in “event” (if not “race”) conditions. All meant to be prep for my “big 13 km […]
Read MoreDeeply, Genuinely Happy
October 21, 2025 No CommentsMain image by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash 9 May 2022 (and Medjool’s birthday) It’s not the kind of thing that we go around saying, is it? At least not the Brits. At least not most Western Europeans. And at least not on a regular, ongoing basis. Sure – we hear people say it, we might […]
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