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When you write I think your ears become sensitive to things around you. You listen for interesting conversations that create a spark in you and make you want to write or express your own opinions.  Lately I have been listening for positives. Mainly for people being positive about themselves or others. I heard plenty of…

Lately I have seen many posts on social media about breast milk v formula, memes , opinions, facts, horror stories blah blah blah And I would like to give you all my opinion. Please bear with me as I feel really strongly about this and want to share my inner most thoughts ……… Piss off…

I get scared to ask for ketchup sometimes in restaurants. It’s some kind of social awkwardness , I get all hot and bothered and psyche myself up then just  smile when the waiter comes over. I’m getting better but my poor husband and best friend have really bore the brunt of this little issue over…

To you,  for carrying on even when your heart was being ripped from your soul To you, for being the best mother to a child that needs you more than we can ever imagine To you, for fighting a battle that is unfair and cruel and that I know has torn the sparkle from your…

To the girl in the corner, It always amazed me that you had taken my performing arts class. You would always sit in the back, in your prison issue, pale blue slightly dirty, sweatshirt. You never really said much. I look back now and I really hope you were listening. We were putting on a…

Ah, it’s the season to be jolly! I bloody love Christmas, all of it! The tree, the presents, the 2,3 or 4 party dresses you have to buy, the sales, the wine, the buffet, the lights, the school holidays and the promise of a new year and new opportunities and new beginnings and a whole…

Something has made me cross this week. In fact it pissed me off. I think I got so mad about it because I don’t understand it.  Then of course my overactive brain started thinking that the problem was much bigger than the one that caused me to have to have a two finger Twix for…

  I was having a conversation with one of my besties, I have spoken about her before but one thing I love about this friend is that we can be completely ourselves when we speak. There are no airs, graces or fake news. We sometimes talk about what is bothering us, we give each other…

So my baby sister ( I  know you hate it when I call you that!) you’re having a baby. I think I’m supposed to be able to give you amazing and useful advice on how to raise the perfect, yet ever so cool and quirky, child. I think I am supposed to be able to…

Dear Miss Ladybird, I hope you don’t mind me calling you that. Your only 10 years old and I want to tell you  few things about how to deal with those girls who are calling you fat. They are twats, it’s probably not very politically correct for me to call them that. I think I am…