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Slow release 3 Mar 2013 | 06:42 pm
I was chatting to a friend at work, the other day. Another single mother with a senior job and teenaged children. We were both struck by the parallels of our lives. The children who are, by default ex...
Keeping promises to highwaymen 25 Feb 2013 | 02:50 am
We're getting to decision point. As I write this - and I don't promise this won't change - I'm comfortable with the idea that Daisy will go and live with her father. For a while, at least. For a time ...
Off day off 20 Feb 2013 | 12:29 am
It's half term, this week. For the children, rather than me. I had hoped we might have moved house by now, in which case it would have been half term last week. And I haven't, therefore, got round to ...
Bitter 12 Feb 2013 | 01:47 am
Calm and unflappable and supportive is beginning to fail me... The children went to their father's this weekend, and Daisy has come home calmer and (much) happier. I ask what's changed. She considers....
Scales 6 Feb 2013 | 02:27 am
I'm tired. No, really. I am seriously tired. And cold. It's a bit of a conundrum: I am so tired and cold that I should go upstairs and turn the electric blanket on. But I'm too tired and cold to move....
Unexpected discoveries. 26 Jan 2013 | 05:37 pm
There are things you wish were never said. Memories that shouldn't be held. Things you'd sell internal organs not to have to hear: not because of the difficulty of hearing them (although also that), b...
I don't know what to say... 25 Jan 2013 | 02:05 am
I mean, literally. So much I want to say, but none of it I can. This has been another of those weeks from someone else's life. Where I've written press releases, ministerial briefings, internal inform...
Facelift 13 Jan 2013 | 12:13 am
I've a new picture (see the column on the right). The new dragonfly was made for me by a Twitter friend, @ShivHarrison. She's a talented, creative woman - part of the twitter group of friends I've tal...
The house with the golden windows 11 Jan 2013 | 03:40 am
Daisy doesn't know the parable about the grass being greener (or not) on the other side of the fence. But she does know - or believes she does - that she doesn't like the rules at home. So she wants t...
Thank the lord for Lizzy 5 Jan 2013 | 01:12 am
You remember my Dad, and the saga of my stepmother's illness and care provision? Well, I've been to see Dad, today. My stepmother had just been visited by the hairdresser, and her face was surrounded ...
