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Tales of discovering light, love and laughter within the ordinariness of our extraordinary lives

Raising the troops…

As I sit here about to write about the frustration that I’m feeling, some window replacement guys start work on the house next door. They are really noisy! I take it personally. Why are they disturbing me when I’m trying to work?! An hour ago, my laptop stalled

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She said, he heard…

View Report Here’s a tale from an ordinary life! You might find it familiar. He had cooked dinner. Vegetable korma with all of the accompaniments. Delicious. But it wasn’t as spicy as he’d hoped, seemed a bit bland.He felt disappointed with himself and familiar thoughts started

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I bumped my head…

This morning I bumped my head. On a shelf. Not seriously and not so you’d notice. No cuts or bruises. Is there a word for a bump that’s softer than a bump? A nudge maybe? That sounds odd though.‘I nudged my head on a shelf.’ No.

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A story from childhood

Lily was feeling stuck and frustrated with her life. She had recently recovered from a long spell of illness which meant that she had been unable to leave the house for months at a time. She now felt well and strong enough to ‘get back on

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Be more like Joyce

I’ve just had a memory of a conversation that I had with a friend’s Mum, back in the day as I was preparing to move from the small Devon village that I lived in to the big bright and shiny lights of good Old London Town.

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Exam fever

Mara was struggling. She was feeling anxious, revved up, restless and irritated.  She wasn’t eating well, sleeping well or feeling well. She said that she felt as if she had a fever, although her temperature was normal.  And the worst of it was that she had

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