My in-between jobs time is disappearing. By the end of this week I will be either fully or halfway employed. That's employed by people who will pay me for the time I spend on their behalf ( Read more... )

It's begun to rain, but it's only summer rain. So it's coming down fast and light and makes the air smell like the earth. It's all the elemental elements in one - the heat of summer for fire, the rain for water, air and earth becoming one. It's refreshing. Up until now the heat has been so still and so heavy. It made me walk between my Mum's office ( Read more... )

I've been using this time to imagine myself in a new way, cosmically ordering things into place ( Read more... )

You find me mid-beginning of a fresh life experiment ( Read more... )

This is the most beautiful season. Even when the air is solid with wet, and the sky is infinite slate, the golds and greens and bronzes and reds of the trees and falling leaves take my breath away. A bright yellow leaf fell in front of me with a loud slap coming home last night. It felt like the full stop of something ( Read more... )

Sunny Sunday last, some of my team-mates and I skated 26.62 miles (a marathon) around the Goodwood motor circuit track. We were raising money for the work of the NSPCC, but also to see if we could finish it, for the challenge of it ( Read more... )

Even though I have lived on my own for over a year now, last night tucked up in my bed, I weirded myself out by being a scared to be on my own in the house. It felt very strange that there was no-one else in the flat, no-one sleeping fitfully & disturbed by my snoring, no-one to step lightly over to get to the toilet in the night, no-one to listen ( Read more... )

The end of this year and decade approaches so it's almost time for some back-looking and forward-peering.

Woody Allen's new year 2009 promise to me (that I will learn something about myself) has resonated regularly through my empty mind caverns this year, and I think it is a prophecy which is being fulfilled. After this in turns lovely, ( Read more... )

Do you remember when you were a kid and after you'd eaten your Ma or whoever would tell you that you couldn't bezz around like a mad thing as you had to allow your dinner to settle down first? That might not have happened to you, but it did to me. It didn't ever make sense to me all of my kid days. It didn't matter to me whether I'd eaten a feast ( Read more... )

Hitch up those wagons again. It's time to get rolling. Westward ho! To the wild wilds of West Yorkshire to witness the horrors that await a band of young, and youngish, damsels trying their luck prospecting on the roller derby track in the Royal Armouries Leeds ( Read more... )