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MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS

From the same book by Kerry Wilkinson: "We sit on the sofa and there's a minute or two where neither of us speaks...Conversation isn't easy because there's only really one thing we can talk about - us. I can't imagine having the same types of breezy conversations...

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27 octobre 2017

SOMETHING TO PONDER

From The Girl Who Came Back , by Kerry Wilkinson: "What sort of person wants their own daughter to give away a grandchild? How is that a thing? It's easy to abdicate responsibility by saying it's a generational thing, that isn't an excuse, not when other...

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8 février 2010

DIRTY WORD

Why is it that whenever TDC hears the word "Private" they react as if you'd sworn at them? For the second time I have had to ask them to intervene regarding nuisance; firstly noise nuisance perpetrated by our upstairs neighbour, and now rubbish dumping...

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9 novembre 2009

VANITY SIZING

Having dug out all my old clothes that were too small and raided the matriarch's wardrobe, I have noticed that sizes have expanded over the past ten years...the old size 14 waistbands are approximately 10cm smaller than they are today and the hips are...

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5 juin 2009

SUBTLE CHANGES

As I tread the weary path towards a 'normal' weight...what is normal...I find all my old pleasures, my old friends that saw me through a lot of bad times, are losing their ability to comfort and reassure. Oh, you might say that they were no friends of...

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24 avril 2009

PERFECT PARENTS?

Why is it that there are some people we just love to hate? Coming back on the Seacat from Cherbourg on Monday, golfer and I had the (very dubious) pleasure of sitting next to the perfect textbook parents. Her: scruffy and unkept in a t-shirt and track...

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10 février 2009

FILIALE LOVE

If you don't feel your father has been a very good parent, is it still reasonable to wash your hands of him when he's desperately ill? Some would say you reap what you sow, but there are always two sides to any story and any child of a broken marriage...

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25 novembre 2008

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND

I wrote on Sunday about females in the eighteenth century resorting to any means at their disposition to alleviate the harshness of their existance...you know what? nothing has changed. Today, as then, it seems that women cannot afford integrity if they...

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