Month: March 2024

That’s so you…

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Hi, Happy long weekend with chocolate event UK readers 😉 Or, at Chez Jones, just the long weekend, as we – okay, I – am equally disorganised and uninterested in purchasing Easter eggs. Therapy No, not the rather good metal outfit – seeing as I’m missing the question mark – but time with the counsellor last week. I think the best way I can describe the benefits, is that the conversations around the complexity of the mess in my head (that’s with a knowing look to camera 😉), have helped. If I was a clever person, I’d probably mention some intersectionality, but I’m not, so we’ll move on 🙂 So, helped in that a shared look at the situations – […]

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Losing to win

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Hi, Another week, another post 🙂 Get on with it, Jones! Conversation Last time around you may recall me dithering about – as per 😉 – over Wookieness. The quick answer is we talked about it as a couple. Of course, being a right Nervous Nelly – or Anxiety Andrea? 🤔 – I managed to tie myself up in knots, emotionally speaking. 🙄 Anyhoo, the conversation was along the lines of not wanting to cause upset and embarrassment, rather than seeking permission. Does that make sense? As ever, the Ever Lovely Mrs J continues her wisdom and wifey loveliness. We talked about how it might help, how most of my leg hair has gone through age, and we laughed that […]

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Low battery but high spirits

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Hi, I’m not quite sure why, but I just feel knackered. I’m not sure if it’s been a case of doing too much, lack of lunch naps, and/or the annoyance of late night ‘busy brain’. The latter being I put my head on the pillow, start to daydream (nightdream?), and my mind floods with thoughts and ideas. No brain, they’re day thoughts, now it’s sleepy time. 😴 Luckily it’s Friday off for me, so a chance to sort the household chores and take it easy before the school run…. …. Ah, and call an emergency plumber ‘cos the upstairs heater has popped its clogs and decided to leak through the kitchen roof. Still, the heater has been in sixteen years, […]

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Betwixt

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Hiya, I was going to lead in with an apology for not having a pun about a certain chocolate and caramel biscuit snack. Well, two fingers to that idea 😉 International Women’s Day Firstly, happy IWD and I hope you saw some positive news stories or events wherever you are. This year’s theme is Inspire Inclusion and PinkNews have a list of amazing queer women who are inspiring and leading change. I was deeply moved by Jess Philips and her speech around the lack of progress for women’s safety. The ineptitude and shrugging off around the need for us to improve legally is, well, shocking… and yet unsurprising given our current bumbling administration. They truly seem asleep at the wheel. […]

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Curious echoes

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Hi, Leap year? Loafing about more like 😉 Yeah, I had Feb 29th off but more by accident than design. I had some holiday leave carried over from last year, and Thursday was booked so I didn’t lose it. Now, I’ve been both enjoying and benefitting from a shorter working week for a while now. Okay, it’s every other Friday off, but that still helps. It’s not just the psychological and physiological boost I get, but having the time to do things, means I can run errands and try my hand at the housework. With apologies to Ms Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who tidies, must point it out. 🙂 But, hey, it gets done […]

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