I am meant to be putting things into piles. It’s holiday season – school have shut, families are making plans. I have decided to organise myself by…reading a large novel. This isn’t my usual approach. Normally holiday times come round and I’m prepared, a week in advance, even. This time round, no. Call it late …
Author archives: alison
F is for freebie
Hanging out. It’s that fill-the-gap moment when mums wait for their child’s class to be over. Be it sport, be it dance, whatever – it’s what we do. Show up, wait, head home again. I used to write shopping lists. Come up with more to do items, maybe even check a few off. But now …
10 Oct: I often forget…
…that I’ve already told you a story. Or a joke. Or an anecdote. So. Sorry about that. But have you heard the one about picking brambles? Raking leaves? Buying more food than you need and struggling to fit it into the kitchen? Oh. You have. I know, because I seem to have written about each …
R is for rustling
Not that kind of rustling, pardner. The sound. It’s the wind in the trees and the leaves under my feet. It’s the sound of autumn. The rushing in the leaves and branches as the not-yet-gales try out the trees for size. The snap and crunch of leaves around the benches at school where I wait …
9 Oct: I was really scared when…
…the latest writing prompt came in. How real was I going to get? I’d already bared my soul this week – aka tried to write a short biography – and now there was more to be done. Here’s the thing. The things that are really scary to us are also hard to put down in …