Re-set Days Heavens its been a heck of a month. First came Covid and then I scraped (SCRAPED!!) an eye-pencil across my waterline and did myself a terrible damage, resulting…
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The Social Butterfly If I was a butterfly I would be the kind who spends most of her days tight in her cocoon, only occasionally popping out to flutter her wings…
Reasons to be Grateful I got myself in a muddle yesterday. Dwelling on what the world is becoming. How frightening everything seems. How much anger there seems to be bubbling under the…
A Fallowing One of the biggest lessons I am taking away from my fiftieth year is that the years we spend in fallow, or indeed Wintering are just as important…
My Big, Fat, Wild Idea Last week I dreamt that I needed to see under everything. So I was crawling under trains and insisting people stand on their heads so I could inspect…
Suspended Animation The sky is a creamy blue and the rooves dusted with icing sugar. And in here, in the flocked walls of home, I have been quite certain that…
Waiting I have lost my voice again. I open my mouth and nothing comes out, though the words exist fully formed and spoken. I have lost my voice and…
Hi Ren One of the things that I am committed to seeking is awe. That mysterious emotion we cannot chase but have to happen across. An emotion that stops us…
Bonne année Well now, one minute I was fretting about whether Father Christmas had managed to stuff Finn’s stocking with all that a nineteen year old man-boy could desire and…
By the Skin of My Teeth Well, I said I would be back in September and while obviously I meant at the very beginning of the month, instead of on this, the 28th, consider…
Back In September August has arrived and the time has come for me to down tools and take my annual month long holiday away from BrocanteHome. As you know the past…
101 More Things About Me (At Fifty) I have written a few of these posts over the years, and thought it was time for another to reflect on who I am now, at fifty. You…
The Progress Report – Learning To See Myself I was once crazy head over heels in love with a lovely man who told me that he showered in the dark because he couldn’t bear to look…
Akēru In Japan, the word akēru means “to pierce, to end, to begin” – the aftermath of something broken making room for something new to blossom like so many…
The Put Alison Back Together Plan – Part Two And so I have had to let him go and there is no point talking about it because it has been confusing, terrible and so very, very sad,…
Where I Am At So there I was charging along on my treadmill, doing a little giddy dance inside my head as I reached my personal best without having a coronary, while…
The Put Alison Back Together Plan People are so very kind. It simply never ceases to astonish me how when my world falls down in this way, so many step in to cradle me…
Left/Bereft I cried in TK Maxx yesterday, I stood in front of a chenille pink flamingo baby rocker – of all things – and suddenly I was balling. In…
The Scooby Doo Solution One of the things that is ridiculous about me (and trust me I am positively abundant in ridiculousity) is my quiet passion for Scooby Doo. In fact sometimes…
How Focus Was Lost I do believe I have just two modes: serene and swanlike or completely off my head. And honestly, completely off my head seems to be the way I’m…
The Second Chapter Sometimes the need for change wallops you in the face. But more often than not, its a creeping sensation. Truth that wraps around you like a vine, tendrils…