… Volare… oh oh… cantare… oh oh oh..nel blue dipinto di blue… felice di stare lassù’… Ok it might not mean a thing to you but that song pops in my head every time the plane breaks through the clouds and that deep deep blue welcomes you and promise you adventures. I’m typing this from …

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I have a headache and I know why. It’s because we’re off skiing tonight and I need to make sure that 4 people have the right number of pants and socks and teeshirts.  That they have a pjs just in case the hotel is evacuated in the middle of the night (I kid you not, …

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Ok, I’ll admit it… I forgot about ‘poetry monday’ yesterday, but in my defence I was rushing to attend the fourth hockey tournament in 7 days (that is 14 games, folks… just saying…) … Two out of the four competition were played and watched in the pouring rain, so a poem about rain seems appropriate, right? …

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I don’t know what made me start on this project again… maybe the phone call from my dad, sad because his cousin had died before he could visit her again (the snow had made the journey impossible for him)… or maybe because Mr M’s mum is losing her stories and she’s had a most interesting …

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I took this photo yesterday afternoon on my when on taxi duty my way to pick up No 3. HASHTAG NO FILTER. The sky was this weird grey/yellow that, frankly, was a little spooky.  My grandmother would have called it ‘earthquake sky’ based on no scientific reasons whatsoever.  But then again she had a plethora of …

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