How can you make everyday, just like your holidays? You know what I mean, when you are on holiday nothing is urgent (except catching your plane on time), everything happens as and when you feel like it and you can plan or just wing it if you like. Well at least this is the case […]
My family decided it was time to meet my boyfriends family; not really sure exactly when this was, but most likely around the time we announced our engagement, which was to be combined with George’s 18th birthday. I know, so young, but so very happy. My mum and dad visited, were shown around the farm […]
I recall the first visit to the farm. I was excited as George’s old valiant AP6, with its spotted paint job and touched up rust, no seat belts, low bucket seats and wide mag rims rattled its way down the very rough track to his family farm. That was the main road, we still had […]
I spent much of my late childhood, teens and early adulthood, believing that the world could be pretty simple if everyone just told the truth and did the right thing. You know what I mean. It is either black or white, wrong or right, isn’t it? This has probably been the longest learning curve of […]
When I was preparing to leave school, if you had told me I would marry a dairy farmer and live on a farm, surrounded by cows, hay and cow shit. Wearing japara jackets and wellington rubber boots, I would have thought you were crazy. Yet, a year later I met a guy at a youth […]
I don’t know about you, but I would like to think the world would be an awesome place if we could all foster tolerance. So what is tolerance and why is it so hard to find? The wikipedia definition goes like this “Tolerance or toleration is a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, […]
With my first book due to be self published shortly, I thought it was time to launch my own writers blog. As I have a broad interest in writing, this blog will play host to many and varied subjects, but will also act as a platform to present my work as it become available. I […]