What comes after the butterfly… I mean first you have the quiet caterpillar, happy I guess with his lot but not achieving all that much as he slowly plods along his safe, unremarkable leaf (life) before he eventually slips snugly into his cosy but closeted cocoon. But hey, what’s this! Out soars that butterfly, garishly […]
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PLANNING Since a young age I can always remember enjoying the feeling of running.  I remember cross country at school where being very competitive I used to get really annoyed when some of the girls would cheat and not run around the last field and there was me running as fast as I could sticking […]
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Like a lot of the girls I went to school with, many moons ago, all I wanted to do was leave school, meet the ‘man of my dreams’ settle down and have babies.  I used to tell my friends that I couldnt wait to ‘start my life.’   I was 18 years old when I […]
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Its been a busy year for me.  When I haven’t been acting like a 22 year old dancing on table tops and going clubbing and having all in all riot of a time, I have been…. Getting divorced. Sewing all those wild oats I didn’t sew before I met my ex-husband in my very, very […]
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In the month where banks have crashed and governments taken over the financial institutions of the global economy, I have been galloping my mad black mare across the Kent countryside with this Tina Turner song running through my head..  It’s alright for some………I can hear you say as you buckle down to the 9-5, but […]
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Okay girls who’s prepared to admit that once we get to a certain age our worst enemy is gravity.  We can clench our buttocks, thrust our pelvis, sit up, push up, work the abs to try and fight it, but once it all starts going south it’s a losing battle.   I swear that my bum […]
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Well I guess it’s time I got my coat once and for all. But before my departure, perhaps a few final thoughts; after all if explanation is required, then surely one owes at least some explanation… You know, contrary to my own belief, some have been calling me a player. I mean it has even […]
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Going out with a younger man can seriously improve your health. Honestly. According to a university study from the US, women with younger partners are proven to live longer than those with older or same age partners. They found it was a combination of genes (a woman who looks younger is likely to attract a […]
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As ya’ll know, the T-Rex has been fairly disruptive to my newly single life.   Making me think I wanted to get married again.  Kissing me in a way that makes me want to have another baby (or Lord help me, twins which apparently run in his family).  Thinking I might want to move to […]
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Before you all you boys start getting over excited thinking that at last this has turned into a soft porn site let me quickly say that apart from being a professional writer I’m also a professional horse rider.  When I was married I had 16 horses, two of them stallions and a 50 acre stud […]
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