On shopping

A while back I found myself debating the decline of the high street with a friend of a friend on Facebook.  Friend of Friend argued that the "traditional" high street had actually been wiped out years ago by chain-stores, and if these were in turn being replaced by online shopping, this was no bad thing.  I found …

Nee Naa: a visit to the National Emergency Services Museum in Sheffield

We set off in high spirits, all four of us excited by a day out with friends arranged at relatively short notice.  9YO chats non-stop in the back of the car, giving us a running commentary of her DS game, apparently regardless of whether anyone is listening.  3YO is like Pavlov's dog on car journeys …

And so I write

A blog in the making. It’s been a long time coming, but the things in my head must, finally, have a voice.  I call them things, because they’re not words yet, nor even thoughts.  Rather feelings, drifting shapes in the dark spaces around the edges of my conscious mind, waiting for me to name them …