Our home is starting to feel like the Durrells’ place: full of eccentricity and animals. Like Gerald Durrell, I loved animals as a child. My parents signed me up for the RSPCA’s Animal Action magazine, which, as a true 90’s kid, I loved. I pored over the little quizzes, fact pages and letters. I entered…
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Wild and Precious
Last week was the end of the holidays. For me, it mostly consisted of errands, “DIY”, planning and sorting. Perimenopausal hormones were getting me down and the children’s school anxiety was steadily building. It was a transitional week, a return to work and focus and the normal demands of normal life. I listened to an…
Small Things
Perhaps I will one day drive a camper van and go on road trips with my family. Maybe I will, at some point in my life, have a golden retriever to walk along the beach, before returning to my coastal cottage for a coffee. Perhaps I will one day achieve the dream of having an…
National Adoption Week
In a world of injustice, difficulty and diversity, adoption could be one of the most powerful words. All of us have vulnerabilities and corners of loneliness or isolation in our lives. Some of us have huge disadvantages. All of us, though we may hate to admit it, need the embrace of others, the hand pulling…
Life Lived 