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Dreamtime
I dream a lot. I don’t mean dream, as in fantasize about grand plans or happier futures (although I evidently do that quite a lot too). I mean dream, as in fall asleep and slip into a different world where … Continue reading
Lessons in Non-Attachment
Having recently returned from my insanely stressful house-clearing, son-moving stint in England, only to be faced with the imminent trials of our French house move to the Allier, I find myself somewhat overshadowed by a cloud of dysphoria. I fear that I … Continue reading
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Moving Blues
This is a strange time, dominated by thoughts and feelings about houses. Thoughts of buying and selling them, and moving out of and into them. Feelings of sadness and loss, and feelings of excitement and anticipation. But it is not … Continue reading
Letting Go
Just when we thought all our endless hours waiting on phone calls from estate agents were over…..we now find ourselves at the end of another long day of waiting to hear from the agent who is handling the sale of … Continue reading
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One Hundred Hours of Solitude
Well more like seventy-five actually. Simon is in Blighty for a few days visiting his parents in Dover. He just managed to fly into Stansted airport before the snow rolled in and closed the south east of England. So I am … Continue reading
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The Parachute Opens
The day following the storm dawned clear and very still. It was an unusual stillness, as if the whole landscape was under sedation, sleeping off the cuts and bruises inflicted by the big windy bully the day before. There was a … Continue reading