SuzanneG Jan 303 min(39) Full CircleDear Fisherman, I had decided that this was to be my last blog post and so it has taken a long while to start. When I began the DearTimMi...
SuzanneG Jul 22, 20205 min(38) Furious DancingDear Achilles Heel, I am so angry with you. I have been angry with you for a few years... Six years ago, the best way to finish a school w...
SuzanneG May 22, 20205 min(37) Bare FruitDear Tesco Delivery People, Thank you! Thank you for continuing to bring me most of what I put on our shopping list. Thank you for smili...
SuzanneG Apr 10, 20207 min(36) Finding HopeDear Brain, Stupid, frustrating, irrational, fragile, human brain. It turns out to be true what they say about needing to give any urge...
SuzanneG Feb 22, 20205 min(35) MI5 Clive (The Squirrel Has Landed) Dear James Bond (the Daniel Craig one, probably), Tell me how you do it. How do you manage to lead your double life without anybody know...
SuzanneG Jan 28, 20204 min(34) An Unexpected GoodbyeDear Margaret, This was to be the third of the August snippets, in which I would explain my piano piece for you. Life, however, or death,...
SuzanneG Nov 14, 20196 min(33) Where Is Alex Mair? Dear Tim, I don't imagine for one moment that you do know where Alex Mair is. (Or care, let's be honest.) I don't know how well you've ke...
SuzanneG Oct 23, 20196 min(32) - Dear TimYou have no idea how much I am looking forward to this. The other 3058 fans in the Edinburgh Playhouse will be very happy to be there. Bu...
SuzanneG Sep 12, 20197 min(31) Stick That In Your PipeBefore starting it, I would have predicted that I would be happy for my Snippet Challenge to be at an end. With so much time spent travel...
SuzanneG Aug 27, 20193 min(30) - Snippet Challenge I find it absurdly difficult to try to compose a sentence on a small iPhone with an adult finger. Two sentences together bring about too ...
SuzanneG Jul 19, 20197 min(29) Lost PathSometimes I make lists in my head while I run. Sometimes I think of new tunes. The lists are far more likely to be remembered than the tu...
SuzanneG Jun 30, 20192 min(28) NeedleworkI wish that I could crochet. This beautiful girl is wearing and holding something crocheted by her dad. Isn't that somehow perfect? I onc...
SuzanneG Jun 13, 20197 min(27) Suck It Up, ButtercupI have a new favourite phrase, which seems to require a southern American drawl. I can't beat about the bush with a whole paragraph about...
SuzanneG May 28, 20198 min(26) Passing PlacesWe took the kitten over the hill this afternoon to go to the vet. We passed at least five convoys, one with fifteen cars...... It seems t...
SuzanneG May 14, 20196 min(25) Small FishI am making bread again. We have a kitten. There is ingrained earth under my fingernails. I drive my girl to the bus at twenty to seven o...
SuzanneG Apr 20, 20194 min(24) A Punch, A Pinch (of Cinnamon) and Quite A Few Goodbyes.Are your eyes wet Mrs Gillies? Yes they are. This week has seen my eyes wet many times. I have ten classes which I teach the Expressive A...
SuzanneG Mar 18, 20196 min(23) No Place Like HomeCountry roads, take me home, I hummed to John Denver. Home is where the heart is, Pliny retorted. I am homeward bound, Paul Simon wished....
SuzanneG Mar 3, 20196 min(22) Letter to KatrinaMy beautiful girl, You are a teenager now. It will seem a long time, forever, in fact, but it will come faster than you realise. You wi...
SuzanneG Feb 24, 20195 min(21) Words Words in papers, words in books Words on TV, words for crooks Words of comfort, words of peace Words to make the fighting cease Words to ...
SuzanneG Feb 10, 20195 min(20) Words, Music and Hot FlushesI had several things on my mind this morning between 2:01 and 4:06 am. 1) It is nearly the weekend, so it doesn't matter that, yet agai...