SubscribeI don’t know about you, but I don’t think that back-to-school feeling ever quite leaves you. September 1 will usually find me on a stationery spree, even if my urge to rush home and stick pictures of Duran Duran all over my new notebooks is not as strong as once it was. I may even be [...]
Bah! to cancer
Breast cancer had a pop at Stephanie. It really wishes it hadn't.
Category: northumberland
Three weeks
Three weeks from now – if all of the ducks currently shuffling around waiting for someone to tell them what to do actually get themselves into a line – we will be moving. Well, sort of. Joy will already be ensconced in Northumberland with her Grandma and Granda, as she starts her new school on [...]
Look what we found
It’s perfect. Big rooms, lovely kitchen, a room just begging to be a library and space in the garden for a craft studio/writing space for me. Close to the family and dog-friendly (which I’m sure Joy will be along to tell you about in due course).
Offer made. Offer accepted. Fingers crossed.
(I wrote about our plans [...]
Guest blogger: Joy Tilbrook
Changes and Challenges
I’m Joy – Stephanie’s daughter, and I’m doing a guest blog post for my mum!
As most of you probably already know, our family is packing up and trundling off to Northumberland. So when I look at the stress of moving, the finance, the sorting, the dreams and the wishes of how perfect life [...]
The Answer
I am nervous about this post, which is probably why I’ve waited until I’m on holiday to publish it.
I’ve written a poem. I don’t know why publishing poetry feels more exposing than writing about every aspect of my dance with breast cancer, but it does.
Anyway, here goes. I hope you like it.
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The Answer
‘So, why are [...]
Why is a cancer like a house?
This week, Joy is staying with her grandparents while she tries out her new school in Northumberland. (It is the school I went to. We were shown round by my old maths teacher. Weird.) Alan, Ned and I are going up to join her on Thursday when we’ll got to look at some houses, and [...]
Loose ends
As an aside from normal blogging business, a few things.
1. The Bra Of Magical Uplift is the aptly named Goddess Bra. The website is here. Happy shopping. (If you are a bra designer, look away now, as I don’t wish to make you weep…. I took the bit of boning out of the side as [...]
Ambling
Recently I was asked to write a little piece for The Ambler, the community magazine of the place where I grew up.
Here it is. You might enjoy it. There might not be anything new in it for regular readers… but at least you get to gaze on the sight of me in pink and purple [...]
A holiday with a difference
On Saturday morning, Ned, Joy and I boarded a train at King’s Cross and travelled 300 miles to Newcastle, where we were collected by my Dad and driven the 24 miles or so north to Guyzance, my parents’ home.
We’ll be doing the usual things. We’ve already walked along a beach, deserted aside from us and [...]
A maze
Yesterday, we went to visit the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, just off the coast of Northumberland and reachable via a causeway only when the tide is out. It’s a beautiful place.
I haven’t been for a few years, and although it doesn’t change much – that’s part of its charm – there is now a maze [...]
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