Category Archives: Life, Love and Laughter

Caught in a web

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Sue Vincent

It was a dark and stormy night… Well, okay, actually it was a bright, sunny afternoon and all I really wanted to do was go out and play… take the dog and the camera, perhaps… look at the greenery and … Continue reading →

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Remembered joy

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Sue Vincent

For a very little while, just a few, short weeks a couple of years ago, I managed to afford dancing lessons. I had always been a dancer and ballroom had replaced the stage after the pointe shoes had to go. … Continue reading →

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Missing…

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Sue Vincent

Nothing. Zilch. Silence. Now, much as I appreciated the chance to get organised for a long day at work this morning without having to worry too much about it, it was going to bug me all day. My inboxes are … Continue reading →

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How to write wrinkles

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Sue Vincent

The morning was one of those where an inadvertent glance in the mirror on the way downstairs tells you that you need a comb. And coffee. Lots of coffee. Annoying really as I had slept fairly well for a change. … Continue reading →

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New Knickers

Posted on February 18, 2015 by Sue Vincent

Gentlemen, you may wish to look away now. Be warned. Consider it a ‘spoiler alert’ … Ladies, I have a hankering for new knickers. In fact, you could say I have a need for them. Gone are the days when … Continue reading →

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Mercury is not retrograde…

Posted on January 2, 2015 by Sue Vincent

The sun is out, it feels like spring and the Christmas tree will be coming down today. I have always left it till Twelfth Night in the past, following the tradition in which I was raised. I used to add … Continue reading →

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12 things your grandparents said…

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Sue Vincent

When you are very young, forty seems ancient and grandparents are, of course, so old they are practically another species. Like dinosaurs…almost- but-not-quite extinct and very much at home in museums. Their homes bear the traces of a ‘bygone era’…you … Continue reading →

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An unexpected Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2014 by Sue Vincent

“Salmon? Of course!” Not that I needed any encouragement to join them on Christmas morning, of course, but when your younger son throws smoked salmon into the equation it really would be churlish to refuse. I had been twiddling my … Continue reading →

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Life cycle

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Sue Vincent

“Do you mind?” Well, yes, actually, I do… choking on a filched Brazil nut from his breakfast is not the most enjoyable of experiences, even if it does serve me right. I splutter an incoherent reply between coughs. “You can … Continue reading →

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Another from the archives…

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Sue Vincent

Barefoot in the snow Have you ever walked along the water’s edge in wet sand, leaving behind a transient trail of footprints that will be washed away by the sea? The image is an evocative one, though a little trite perhaps. … Continue reading →

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