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Even the ones we lost along the way. If you’re out […]

The entertainment world was rocked last night as it was confirmed that a motion picture had been released without the actress Jessica Chastain in it. The indie drama “Difficult To Watch” - about a couple of heroin […]

An adult man who repeatedly rode a bicycle in front of other people will open his mouth and communicate on Thursday, Another person – a woman who has previously shown no interest in bicycles – will sit in a chair […]

It’s the partially hidden problem women won’t talk about. A semi-secret shame that many millions of female ladies experience every day, sometimes every hour of that day, everyday without exception to a woman. It […]

Hey. The Year 2013. I’m giving you fair warning. I’m coming for you.

Your close relative “2012″ has been the shittiest year of my life. I’ve sat through a lot of it feeling helpless. I’ve sat through a lot of […]

For the past two months I’ve relied on the television to distract me from the hideous realities of my life. It sits here, in the corner of the living room, spewing out colours and sound like an electric baby with […]

It’s been a shitty couple of days, which considering how shitty the days are normally, is saying something. I discovered on Friday that I’ll be getting penalised for staying in a three bedroom house when I’m the […]

It’s below freezing outside, and yet she sits, patient, just beneath my kitchen window. The actress Gwyneth Paltrow. She’s been sitting there for hours now, maybe since 4pm when she first came to the window, […]

Dear Virus,

Like many mammals with opposing digits, I am a Facebook user. Sometimes I use the facebook many times a day, spending hours reading things I’ve convinced myself I can’t live without or clicking […]

I don’t remember dreaming of anything since she died, but I dreamt of her last night. I’d gone to bed early after dropping off to sleep in the living room with Jake curled up on my lap. I remember switching off […]

It’s 3.30pm on a cold, barely sunny afternoon here. It’s just over a month since my mother died. My last happy memory of her is the two of us, sitting in the kitchen on a Friday afternoon, waiting for the […]

I vacillate between abject loss and continual haze. Small things make me think of her. I was cruising the other cable channels while a Tory was on the news and came across The Waltons. I turned it over just as the […]

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss’d […]

I’m picking out clothes for a woman who normally wore nightdresses and a dressing-gown. My sister got married a while back, and what she wore that day is what I’m packing. I’m putting it all in a nice Marks and […]

Sunday seems to be a day for crying. I awoke at 8am to a cold house. Yesterday I spent cleaning, and I decided to open all the windows up and air the house out at the same time. I polished the brasses on the front […]

It’s rained nearly all day today. It feels right. I took the death certificate to the local council this afternoon and made her death legal. She’s been added to the dead of Renfrewshire. When it’s officially […]

I forced myself to sleep last night. I leave a low-watt light on in the kitchen overnight, but at around 12.30am this morning I went around switching things off. I leave the television on in the lounge all day, […]

She loved pale flowers, she’d always say. I bought these for her the last time I went to the supermarket, just about a week ago. I had noticed them as I entered the store, but had initially passed them by. I […]