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Choices: My Strange, Ambivalent Relationship With Modern Comms

on 10/02/2012
pink iPad

I love gadgets and I am strangely techie for a bird of my age. But it is often a love-hate relationship. Take me and my mobile phone. Yes, I’ve got one. No, I don’t know the number. Why’s that?   Well it’s main two uses are to allow my niece and nephews and my cleaning lady to text me. That’s about it really. I don’t much care for texting. I don’t do it on the phone itself but on the T-Mobile website where I can type as fast as I think, well nearly.    And I certainly don’t want my mobile telephone [...]

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Oh Lord Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood

on 10/02/2012 3 Comments
Sorry

Yesterday, inadvertently, I managed to upset and confuse people with my written words. This is very sad to me and not least because I intend that my next career will be as a writer, so that ambition slipped back a notch or two yesterday.   How did this come about? I commented on a high traffic website and used one word badly. My intention was love, I think everyone knows this about me. But the person who I was loving (pretty anonymously, or so I thought) in the comment read it with quite another pair of spectacles on. And when I read the [...]

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I Will Not Rebel Or Stand Up Against Any Authority by Anon

on 09/02/2012 4 Comments
Brixton Wall

This was shared with me today. It is apparently from a wall in Brixton, South London, which is very close to where I live.   What do you think?

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Going Virtual: My Last Three Books In The World

on 08/02/2012 1 Comment
Beloved Books

I’m having a bit of a bookish day today. And I was down The Abundance Shed earlier and I got a bit clutter-cleary. In the bottom draw of the filing cabinet (shh) are a couple of valuables I want to shift on eBay on Friday so I made a note. Then I pulled the last armful of books I own in the whole entire world down off the shelf and laid them all out for the Oxfam repository in the Sainsbury’s car park later in the week. And there are three books I cannot bear to be parted from. Can [...]

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The Queen, Oklahoma, The One Show And Me

on 08/02/2012 3 Comments
OklahomaHugh

My best friend phoned, breathless, at 7.25 p.m. yesterday. Was I watching The One Show? Oh, purleeese (or however you spell that). Do I look like the sort of woman who watches The One Show? No disrespect, Matt & Alex, but no I wasn’t watching.   “Oh, well, you’ll want to watch it later then, on iplayer. ‘Cos it’s right up your street tonight!” Have you got a best friend who knows you this well? If not, I feel for you. I duly tuned in this evening when I remembered, and what my pal knew was that I would love several [...]

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Martha Beck: On Mothers and Mothering

on 08/02/2012 5 Comments
Martha Beck

I’m not a Mum although I have often referred to my businesses as my babies. But I know a lot of my readers are Mums (and we are all children) so I felt inspired to share something with you which I read recently in a book called Expecting Adam by Martha Beck. This is the second time I have read this book and I am pretty sure I never even noticed this passage first time round which just goes to show a couple of things.   One that it’s worth reading books you love more than once and Two that you only [...]

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Confidence: A Little Goes A Long Way

on 07/02/2012 6 Comments
you must believe in yourself

I received an email from a client tonight. I read it, smiled and went to delete it. And then I thought: “No. There’s something in this which might be important for all of us.” Here’s what my client said:  “You have given me much confidence. Thank you.“ Doesn’t look like much, does it?   So small I almost missed it for a couple of reasons. First off, it’s only eight words and it sounds like a throwaway remark.   It’s always nice to get a thank you, but this isn’t about me. It is about good listening and good noticing but – [...]

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