Today You Are One

03/06/2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

My Beautiful Boy, Today is your first birthday. It has been difficult for me to think of this date, to look forward to it, to plan. Its all been a bit last minute. I have firmly had my head in the sand but the wish for the date to pass by quietly is unfair on […]

May Day at Quarry Bank Mill

21/05/2015.Reading time 9 minutes.

Bank holiday Monday did not start well. We had been busy all weekend, I was at Blog On MOSI (post coming soon) on the Saturday, Mr C had wasted the day in bed on the Sunday ‘cause he’d stopped up to watch the boxing so I was determined we were going to get out of […]

The Mystery of the Missing White Socks

20/05/2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

Something is amiss in my house. All of the munchkins white socks have vanished! VANISHED!! All of them, apart from one pair, which is helpful. I have no idea where on earth they have gone. If I’m honest things go missing quite often in our house, it’s like a black hole sometimes, mainly due to […]

Calm

18/05/2015.Reading time 1 minute.

I sit Close my eyes Take a deep breath Soak into the silence A moment of calm Picture myself On a beach Cocktail in hand The gentle sound of the ocean Imagine myself In the countryside Sun on my skin The sweet birds sunny song Visualise night Engulfed in the darkness Brightness of 1000 stars […]

Distance

09/05/2015.Reading time less than 1 minute.

It’s gaping, obvious Growing A black hole An ever-increasing Expanse I am here and you are there Floating further away Increasing the space between us A gravitational pull in opposite directions Until we’re tiny specks to each other Over miles of emptiness It’s gaping, obvious A black hole. And we hope The tiny threads that […]