Wednesday, 5 August 2020

Wendy's life story

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A year or so before she died, Wendy began writing her life story for her grandchildren. The idea, she said somewhere in her diaries, was tha...
Monday, 23 March 2020

Mothering Sunday during the Covid19 Crisis

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As I write this, the country is in a state of deepening lock-down, town centres are empty of people and most places are simply shut. Angela...
Saturday, 26 October 2019

Wendy in her students' words

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In the course of a clear out in my study today, I came across a sheet of feedback Wendy collected from her students at Melton College at so...
Monday, 21 October 2019

An unusual mountain...

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In normal circumstances, at this time of year a group of Wendy's friends and family climb a mountain in her memory. The walk celebra...
Saturday, 11 May 2019

The world is touched...

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In a poem I wrote quite soon after Wendy's death (Somebody's Gone), I wrote:- Yet the world is touched in every detail by her ...
Monday, 19 March 2018

Losses and additions

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There's a basic arithmetic in human affairs, which—in the very long run—will probably prove to be a zero-sum exercise. A Japanese Zen s...
Thursday, 7 December 2017

New/old addition to "Golden Days, Dark Nights"

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A few months after Wendy died, I wrote a long prose piece that I eventually titled The Crossing of Borders . At the time, I needed to write...
Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Newish poem, new addition to the collection

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About a year ago, I wrote a long poem about Wendy and my relationship with her since she died. Since it was partly prompted by thinking abo...
Sunday, 12 November 2017

The art of grief: ten years of memorial walks

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I suppose all bloggers must wonder who, if anyone, is reading their output. I wonder sometimes if I am writing this blog just for myself, a...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Is time really the great healer?

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This post is a reflection on the nature of loss, the effects of grief and the passage of time. People who have never suffered what someone...
Saturday, 9 March 2013

Food, weight and greed

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The gaps between my posts here are quite long - more than a year since my last. I suppose that's a sign that life does move on in new d...
Wednesday, 15 February 2012

Wendy’s take on life, people and cats

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This post represents another episode in my continuing reflection on Wendy's life. In particular, how she saw and treated people. Her fr...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Third Time Lucky?

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It's taken a year—I didn't expect it to be that long when I wrote the post below, just before Christmas last year—but Wendy's ...
Thursday, 23 December 2010

More trouble at t' tree

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My earlier optimism was sadly misplaced.  The second tree has died, presumably from the same cause as the first.  I've known this for a ...