Here is my list of clichés for the new year. Clichés because you see these words everywhere. Clichés because they contain some worldly truths. If you can come up with different, more interesting ones, let me know. Meanwhile Happy New Year 2020. My New Year’s Resolutions are to be more: AssertiveBenignCaringDaringEnergeticFeelingGratefulHappyIntuitiveJoyfulKnowingLoving, listeningMeaningful NurturingOptimisticPositive, preparedQuestioningResting, reflectingSensitiveThoughtfulUnderstandingVoicedWholeheartedXTra […]Read Post ›

co This beautiful work of art is actually a starter in the restaurant we went to last night. It had been recommended in the restaurant we had gone to at lunchtime and as we walked past it by chance later in the afternoon we made a reservation because it looked lovely. So far so good. […]Read Post ›

Bad things. Let’s get them out of the way first. Mother In Law In Care Home. Contract not renewed In school Library.Falling over.Friends dying.The last one is inevitable, I suppose, and the sadness that comes with it. I won’t say any more now. The first one – a case of all’s well that ends well. […]Read Post ›

2019 has been one of the best years of my life, though not of course without its difficulties. Most recently, however, a minor miracle took place. My mother in law is in a care home. At the beginning of the year she was very poorly, living alone in her little flat in Warsaw, never going […]Read Post ›