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I usually have to push myself to go for a walk but this morning was fresh and clear and cold so persuading myself did not take long. We live on the edge of the city with easy access to walking routes by fields and along a canal. However, these fields are disappearing as the land…
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My reading trail has taken me from Marjan Kamali’s The Stationery Shop of Tehran to F Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise – a bit of a curve ball this one, as references to other books or authors bar Rumi were few and far between. I have little time for poetry in English let alone…
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My 50 (well 40 so far) plans for being 50 are in no particular order. Bearing this in mind, I have now completed one of them: celebrating Burn’s Night with friends. My husband downloaded the Burns Supper Toolkit but other than having traditional Scottish food: haggis with neeps, tatties, Irn Bru and trifle and taking…
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I have just turned 50 – no longer young (actually my Mum said this to me when I turned 40!) but not too wrinkled yet. Anyway, inspired by Abi Morgan’s This is Not a Pity Memoir, I have decided to try and complete 50 activities throughout the year. So far I only have 40 ideas…
50 for 50 