This is how I see it ..

A few months after finding myself single again I met Captain Climbaboard, who lived at an attractive address in Surrey, was separated in the established sense and had a nice big boat moored at Gosport (let’s not cloud the important facts with peripheral detail). Captain C worked in the city helping to finance large European [...]

My friends, I stand before you today a woman concerned, nay, alarmed at the gradual disappearance of punctuation from this glorious language of ours. It appears that the comma, colon and semi-colon have reached the endangered species list, and the full stop isn’t too far behind them. Add to this the growing epidemic that is [...]

I wonder how many column inches have been given over to this subject; what is it that women really look for in men, or more specifically, what sets a thoroughbred apart from the rest of the neddies? Over what seems like way too many years I’ve listened to men presupposing that the answer is always [...]

The day I became a mother was without a doubt the happiest of my life. Seeing my newborn son’s eyes stare so intensely into mine told me unequivocally that life as I had known it had ceased. A new era was born, along with Benjamin Lee, 7lbs 4.5ozs; an era of responsibility, of caring and [...]

A friend commented the other day that although my posts were well-written, they were perhaps a tad long; this immediately sent me into a state of perplexed anxiety given my aptitude for gathering observational momentum after around eight hundred words, before I soar into my all-knowing, “moral-of-this-tale” closing paragraph. Doug (said friend) comes from a [...]

Those who know me well will confirm that I tend to notice patterns arising … not of the paisley or floral variety, but via occurrences in everyday life. I see it as a process designed to awaken my spiritual awareness and this week the topic of “telling it as it is” has been bothering me [...]

As a woman of a certain age I lose count of the number of debates I have listened to and sometimes participated in about stockings, cinched waists, and the associated betrayal of the sisterhood. Apparently there are some people who believe that a woman is to be pitied if she feels compelled to apply mascara [...]

Like many people I lead a reasonably straightforward and simple day-to-day existence that is fashioned that way mainly to cater for the needs of a growing five year old. I am not entirely certain I would be applying for a role within the secret service had I not had Ben, but I possibly would be [...]

It is a sad indictment on my single status that whenever I mention the M word (men) or the R word (relationships) friends jump up and down shouting “Debsy you MUST stop looking for this man … when you do, he will appear … you’re trying too hard”. The notion that I could ever have tried [...]