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- EPIPHANY 2009 by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Apr 6, 2009
I am no longer Runaway Granny! How shocking is that? I came across a huge file on Saturday, stuffed with print-outs from the first year of the blog, some doodles with AOL and MSN and the travel journals I kept since I left in August 2003. I didn't be...
- Home V Health by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Apr 4, 2009 in habits life family
I've given up chocolate. No it's not for Lent: it's for health and agility. I drove number-one son and three of his sons towards their camping spot on Loch Lomond today; I even got out of the car and walked...yes I said walked, along a lovely wooden...
- Another Memoir Extract: TRAVEL by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Mar 21, 2009 in memoir musings love n relationships life family
1993 : Sitting by myself, wearing white leggings and big T-shirt; bare feet up on the opposite seat, boots under the table and a pile of library books in front of me. I’m watching a man with dark hairy arms, in the seat next to my feet. He has a pi...
- Extract from My Memoirs by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Mar 9, 2009 in love n relationships family
‘There is a bleed,’ he said. Not, ‘Your daughter has had a cerebral haemorrhage.’ No, I get the dumbed-down version. Her brain is bleeding into the nape of her neck, where it will disperse. Well that’s nice and tidy, isn’t it? I’m s...
- GLASGOW HAS SNOW AT LAST by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Feb 8, 2009 in habits life
Oooh we got snow! And it looks like the real thing; there has been the odd fifteen minute flurry over the last few weeks but this is lying on road and roof. Maybe I won’t have to go to the dentist on Tuesday. Luckily I can work from home if I have...
- MORE THAN THINKING by RUNAWAY GRANNY on Jan 26, 2009 in habits life writing
I am a good editor; I love nothing better than ripping writing apart, cutting and stripping, always trying to sharpen and hone – that’s why I never get to the end of anything except poetry! That and ideas for new novels. I can’t sit down and wr...
