I’d begun to wonder whether there would be any chance of cutting the grass again before Spring, so relentless has the rainy weather been this week. Then it stopped and the wind came blowing through to dry the ground briefly, just long enough that I could tidy the garden and harvest the three … [Read more...] about How To Get Rid Of Ghosts
Self Acceptance
How To Do What You Don’t Want To Do
When I was a kid I was, for a time, a member of the Young Ornithologists Club, essentially a birdwatching society for children who got bullied in the playground. Recalling it during a conversation with my sister I tell her, “I used to go to meetings run by a woman called Mrs. Bird (true) on a … [Read more...] about How To Do What You Don’t Want To Do
How To Accept Your Anxieties
A couple of weeks ago I took my daughter for some blood tests and, on the journey, we were discussing how the last time I had taken her for some she’d had a complete meltdown in the waiting room and then again when she’d got in to see the nurse. Consequently, she does everything she possibly can … [Read more...] about How To Accept Your Anxieties
Why I’m Sick Of People Dismissing Greta Thunberg
I’ve been getting into a lot of arguments recently on both Twitter and the comments threads of blogs I follow. This week some random woman was trying to argue that it’s impossible to compare the Hong Kong protests with Greta Thunberg’s trip to the US on board a boat. Her premise seemed to be … [Read more...] about Why I’m Sick Of People Dismissing Greta Thunberg
How To Deal With Pain
My daughter is sharing with me her reading list for university and bemoaning the cost of the textbooks in the way that one would if one were actually having to pay for them. I tell her about how I remember my own study books being astronomically expensive but how I really loved buying them all … [Read more...] about How To Deal With Pain