Category Archives: Thinking, or ranting, or both

Secrets, dragons and mills

Posted on September 6, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

How do you feel about secrets? I’m ambivalent. I love the idea of secret gardens. Valleys unlocked by a spell. Mountains where dragons lie hidden. Places where magic happens. Where the sun beams down on gentle hills from a forget-me-not sky. … Continue reading →

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Listen…

Posted on July 29, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

There’s something mind-bogglingly awesome on your television. It’s in between the channels – no picture, just sound. A noise. And not just any noise. One hundredth of the fizz-crackle-hiss-buzz sound your blind grey screen’s emitting is something goose-bump-inducingly extraordinary. Ineffable. … Continue reading →

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On soap, water and being worth it

Posted on July 27, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

We’re bumping along a track through scrubby woodland in a because-we-need-it four-by-four. It’s the end of a dehydrating day spent working in a haze of heat and orange dust. Digging, sieving, scraping. Tstetse flies biting through clothing, sweat bees dipping … Continue reading →

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Mickey-bear: what Megan really left behind

Posted on July 25, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Sunday morning, a tiny scrap of paper on the floor. A very square scrap of paper. Odd. I bend to pick it up and find that it’s not a piece of paper at all. It’s a little white sticker, with … Continue reading →

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A new BBC radio programme, please, to cheer up the world

Posted on June 7, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

I’m sitting in a classroom, in a temporary building on a patch of waste ground. The ‘hut’, as we call it, looks as if it’s been dropped here by a tornado, like Dorothy’s farm in the Wizard of Oz. We’re … Continue reading →

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Oh dear. Someone’s been reading my blog. Was it you?

Posted on May 25, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Dear People-who-have-followed-me-since-I-was-Freshly-Pressed, I don’t know if it’s the done thing to send you a letter, but does that matter? After all, I don’t exist, do I? If anyone can get away with it I can. So … Thank you. Thank … Continue reading →

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The lip pencil of invisibility. And a grown-up woman’s request for JK Rowling.

Posted on May 3, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Are you fraying round the edges? I’m not too bad, but then I never smoked –  not much, anyway. I did buy two packets of Gitanes when I was at university so I could stick the packets on my wall. … Continue reading →

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