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My soon-to-be eighteen-month-old grandson has just learnt one of the most powerful words a toddler can arm themselves with – ‘more‘. It’s the one and only time in his life that saying ‘more’ without structuring it into a polite sentence is acceptable – he’s too young to say ‘please can I have some more?’ And […]

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Remembering Gran

Today would have been my lovely Gran’s one hundred and fifth birthday and by way of rememberance, I’d like to share with you the poem I wrote just after she passed away in 2000. I’m not into poetry in any shape or form, in fact in English classes at school, it was my worst nightmare; […]