Wonderlust

[won-der-luhst] –noun a strong, innate desire for things one wonders about     see WONDER What we want for ourselves is often not what we need. We want magic but we need stability.  We want freedom but what we need is acceptance. We want money but we have enough. We want to live happily ever after, [...]

My sister self

There is another me I talk to sometimes.  Another version of who I am. I speak to her a lot when things are at their worst and there is no-one else for whom the words would come out. She listens.  She tells me what I already know but can’t believe; that things are not so [...]

New beginnings

Are close. I am off this afternoon to pay the money and sign the contract for a house in Horsham that Simon and I are renting.  We pick up the keys tomorrow (fingers crossed).  Can’t wait to run in and out of every room and cupboard screaming like a five year old.  Where? I hear you say.  Horsham I say, West [...]

Mum holds my hand

My mum came to Brighton yesterday to take me out for some therapeutic shopping and lunch.  We came up to a busy road in the centre of town and as she looked both ways she grabbed my hand and led me across the road. Later on, she wrapped me in a  towel after I came [...]

The shutters are open!

This morning, I got up and didn’t go to work. Instead I went for a run along Brighton beachfront towards Hove. It was beautiful and bright, the kind of morning that makes your heart smile. And when I got to my furthest point, I laid on the beach for a while like a cat in [...]

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