Everyday Delight
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Writing for my Mother (opens the original)
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Last year I started to write about my late mum’s decline into Alzheimer’s, using the diaries and notebooks we both kept.It is a daunting project. These are very personal notes: insights into my mother’s thoughts, fears, struggles and hopes. But it feels very necessary. Necessary so that I can try to convey to others how someone with Alzheimer’s feels as they slide inexorably away. Necessary so that I can try to understand her.But my god it’s been emotional. I found it far more difficult than I h
Of Yellow Leaves and Gossamer (opens the original)
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Way back in August, around the middle of the month after a day or two of drizzle and overcast skies, my body slipped into autumn. I felt it; it came with a sensation like a door seal opening: schuuulp. In my world it was now autumn and I felt so relieved.<sour
Fountain Pens (opens the original)
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It’s not a big collection, not by real aficionados’ standards, numbering in the 20s or so. Barely a collection at all. I’m not obsessed, honest, but I do like a fountain pen.<img alt="a close up of a f
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