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  • The Seven Year Itch

    The Seven Year Itch

    18th September 2009 | 0 comments | 2 people like this


    It was about six months after my seventh wedding anniversary, when I became aware that I was finding random men attractive. I was interested in nearly every man I met, including my son’s gay headmaster. Before marriage I had been very discerning, but after seven years of marriage it was a different story.
    What was going on? Perhaps it was because my children were out of nappies and I no longer...

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  • The Summer Holiday

    The Summer Holiday

    16th July 2009 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    I have just reached the end of the first draft of a novel I am working on about a group of people on holiday in Italy. The first half is quite polished, the second less so, the last few pages typed in haste and excitement at reaching the end, are probably appalling. The Summer Holiday has an uplifting ending, it seemed to warrant it, whereas The Seven Year Itch, did...

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  • A Dolls House

    A Dolls House

    11th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree


    On Monday we went to the Donmar Warehouse to see Gillian Anderson cry real tears in A Dollhouse. She looked so beautiful and radiant that Tara Fitzgerald who played her clever plain friend, seemed dull but svelte in comparison. I was so hooked up in the whole thing that by the end of the play, I resolved that I too, should leave my marriage and bravely, heroically and with dignity,  like...

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