Cost centre 3 broke my heart last year when she said to a medical professional…’mummy doesn’t think I’m very clever…’. There is no excuse. I have a lot to repair as well as think about what I send forth. But it pushed me into thinking what exactly is ‘clever’? My…

Sometimes I want to commit murder. Well more to the point genocide. Yes it is typical of me — not to want to do things on a minor scale but here I feel justified as the species in question are mosquitoes. According to The Vox : ‘Over the course of…

One of my favourite films when younger was ‘The Pirate’. It starred Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Judy dreams of being swept away by a dashing pirate — Mack the Black to be specific. She idolises pirates believing them to be swashbuckling, powerful, living the free life. Although the modern…

I want it all….I want it all…. Can I? Forgive me. I am about to be quite sexist and centre this question on women. Only for the reason it is from this angle I have experience and because women are mostly where the question has been parried. There are also…

Somebody once told me the definition of hell: “On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous, CNBC I like to think my family and friends consider I’m a success but we’ve had many conversations over the years that…

I have been having a long standing romance that isn’t with my husband. It has on many a occasion meant taking my attention and care elsewhere. Yet I feel no guilt and would do it again if caught….. Let me justify. I have a tenderness towards words. Apparently I am…

Every now and then I catch cost centre 3 with unnaturally rosy cheeks or as Mills and Boons used to put it, bruised lips. I do a double take and question. Shyly the response is she has been experimenting with make-up. My little one is 10 years old and to…

Do you catch yourself regularly doing something expected yet unexpected. And when you rationalise it’s impossible to explain? Let me elaborate. It has dawned on me I carry out idiosyncratic rituals that have no rhyme or reason. I suppose I have never, contrary to my desire, been a carefree person…

I’ve recently experienced bereavement. I find it perplexing that our frail bodies and minds confront it as part of being human because it is a ferocious and jarring encounter. Grief can arise from a multitude of circumstances — the break up of a friendship, the loss of something personal, a…