Category: 365
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Osho, a resource for support
In the 1960s, Jown Bowlby outlined the approach to human development that he called attachment theory. He helped us recognise that from the day we’re born, our brains are biologically designed to respond to the care and kindness of others. This transformed parenting to support the emotional needs of babies and toddlers as they grow […]
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Understanding more than we thought
Last week we were at Mersina’s grandparents’ house and were all sitting around the dining table at nearly the end of the meal. Grandma was standing and M kept looking at her. Uncle James had come in and taken her seat. “I don’t have a chair Mersina” she explained. M looked down at her own […]
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Three ways to beat writer’s block
I am writing a book and I have come to the first major crisis point about a quarter of the way in. Something important has happened and I know where I want my main character to end up but how do I get her there? It doesn’t help that I have just finished the first […]
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Day 4, a good thing. A goodbye.
My daughter says goodbye to me so easily. Today we went to see the children’s production The Lost Present at the Brewery theatre where little M wiggled her 10 fingers at the request of Ed and Vic which to me seemed an amazing interactive thing for a 22-month-old to do. Then we walked back to […]
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Day 3, a good thing. The new house.
Mersina has a new house. After our delivery of nappies in a big big cardboard box, she quickly established that she liked the box so much that she would live in it. At first she sat in it with her toy and her new slippers from China. She next put it on the couch and […]
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What makes a cafe independent?
Tesco have apparently been criticised for setting up cafe shops that look independent even though they are 49% funded by the ginormous billions-in-profit-making multinational. I find this very bizarre. I would instead criticise the Harris & Hoole brand for thinking it was acceptable to present their cafe chain as an independent one. Nick Tolley, the […]
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A good thing a day – at the shop
I have started to write at least one good thing that happens each day. I won’t share them all on here but I like this anecdote and I have pictures for it so I thought I would post. On new year’s day Mersina and I met up with her dad at the Brandon Hill play […]
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Why I make resolutions
The mind is not my friend. It tells me there are things I should be doing, places I need to be, discussions from years ago, random arguments, unused things, plans that make no sense, snippets of songs, worries about death, or rapes in India or something going on somewhere that makes me upset. It doesn’t […]
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Day 1, support
What you are looking for is who is looking. – St Francis of Assisi This is one of my favourite phrases. For me it recognises that we cannot know something unless we have experienced it ourselves. When we look for greater happiness or love it is love or happiness that is looking for itself. We […]
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2013, planning ahead
When I was writing every day I would find so many things interesting because I needed to post things of interest. Last year I let go of the daily post and found life less interesting – or maybe vice versa. I’m not sure. I know that I want to record a lot more of what […]
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