What does it mean to be content? When you look it up in the dictionary it declares contentment to be 'a state of peaceful happiness.' In this sense, I am most certainly content. I know this is a strange claim amidst the biggest global threat to our way of life in living memory, but it's the… Continue reading …content
I got turned down for an emergency Covid19 survival grant for our holiday let business today. I didn’t realise how much hope I had invested in it until the slightly curt email arrived informing me that, due to the volume of demand for help, the panel had said no. What we do now, I’m really… Continue reading …disappointed
When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to take me to the penny arcade on the pier. I'd get a money bag full of coppers for the coin-push games while she tried her luck on the one-armed bandits. I'd play for a while, but before my bag was even half-empty, I'd pop it… Continue reading …secure
The dictionary defines honour as ‘the quality of knowing and doing what is right.’ I have a sense that by the time this crisis is over, we’ll have a new way of dividing ourselves and our nation’s institutions into those who did the right thing – and those who did not. When I was a… Continue reading …honourable
It's all about being... 