I’ve finished putting up a trellis by the front door so that the jasmine can wind its way up and go some very moderate distance towards soothing the wisteria envy I have for the house on the corner. The fact that the trellis is slightly wonky I take as karma for doing a bit of […]
Rewilding Myself
“I like how these weekly Spotify playlists almost always turn up something good,” I tell my daughter. “It’s not that impressive. They just pack them with songs from artists they already know you like,” she says. It’s true, and it explains why, as much as I enjoy listening to music I enjoy listening to, it […]
Life Changing Moments
“It’s the anniversary of the day we brought Daisy home today,” my daughter tells me as we’re driving out to take the dogs for a walk. A lot has happened in those four years but I can’t imagine having been through any of it without her. I’ve often thought that Daisy’s sight problems are a […]
The End Of Summer
On an unseasonably autumnal August Bank Holiday I am celebrating my birthday by sitting in the queue at a drive-in McDonalds, determined to have cheap ice cream. My daughter and her boyfriend are in the car in front, and my son and his girlfriend are in front of them. A text comes through from my […]
It Might Happen
I can remember once having a conversation with a client who suffered from an array of terrible anxieties in which he told me how hard he found it to either walk or drive across a bridge. One of the phrases I remember uttering to him in the course of the work we did together was […]
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