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Labour’s Book Balancing
I will say here and now, I did not vote for Labour in the last UK General Election. I didn’t vote Conservative, Liberal Democrat or Reform. I did not cast a vote for the first time since I was 18, and I struggled with that because I firmly believe that…
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What Advice I Would Give My Teenage Self
My teenage years were not, like those of many others, the easiest. To say the very least. Hindsight is a wonderful if useless thing, but if the teenage years weren’t the easiest we are often still carrying the scars decades later. But, with that hindsight, I would offer my teenage…
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Postponing Ourselves – Yes or No?
The point about postponing ourselves is based on the writings of Seneca, specifically a letter he wrote to a friend in which he asked why his friend spent so much time doing things he disliked for the purpose of one day enjoying the things he liked. In essence, postponing himself…
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The First Thing I Would Do After Getting Wonderful News…
Whenever I have had wonderful news in the past, I have reached out to others to spread the news. It might be my husband or my mother, but I have reached for the phone to tell them whatever the news has been. But there has been something I have done…
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The Influence on Your Perspective of Life After Significant Life Events
In August 2009, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. By the time it came to the formal diagnosis it was more of a hope it wouldn’t turn out to be cancer, but the initial referral to the breast clinic was wholly unexpected. To say it had an impact on my…
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What is my Mission?
This question was a writing prompt the other week and it really called to me. As I started to think about it, though, I thought – what IS my mission? Do I even have one? Does anyone if they truly think about it? And it got me thinking. If we…
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I Am (Not) Sailing…as the song doesn’t go.
There is one thing I am the most scared of doing. Something that does terrify me at a really deep level. That thing is sailing. I love watching the water, I could stare at the sea or at rivers for hours and hours on end. It’s so powerful, it can…
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What I Would Do With A Lottery Win
Who hasn’t ever thought what you would do if you won the lottery? I know I have, and if I’ve been bored I’ve even looked at multi-million pound homes and dreamed of buying one in the event of a lottery win. But beyond that…I don’t know what I would do…
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Food, Food, Food, Food….
I have the most gorgeous Newfador – cross between a Newfoundland and a Labrador – in the world. He’s gorgeous, he was my baby now he’s my (not so little) old man. At eleven and a half years old he’s doing extraordinarily well as he is still relatively active and…
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Living a Very Long Life – Blessing or Curse?
The daily prompt question for today is your thoughts on the concept of living a very long life. And it did really get me thinking. There are, for me, so many factors attached to this that it doesn’t make it a binary answer. My life experiences have highlighted for me…
Louisa Simpson 