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A Love Letter to Macmillan
This week I was invited to speak at Macmillan’s ‘Gifts in Wills’ event at Hampton Court Palace. Below is the text of my speech in full. It’s a recap of the weirdest and most challenging year in my life. I’m rebuilding. Back to work a couple of half days a week and loving being around…
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Sound and silence
January was characterised by silence. It was probably a good thing to pause and begin the new year thoughtfully but, by the end, it felt like January had lasted a whole year all by itself. For the greater part of the day, unless I happened upon another soul at my art studio or at a…
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Funk
Why does it get harder to write as this goes on? I have so much I want to say and quite a lot of things I can’t say as the future works itself out. Many of the things I want to say when I start to write aren’t positive. I have been swept up in…
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Welcome to my blog
Hello Folks, My name’s Angela. If you’ve found your way here I am guessing you are either a) a relative b) a friend c) also dealing with your own diagnosis. Either way hello/welcome/I’m sorry. It’s a shock. I’m a 51 year old mother of three kids, a wife, a sister, a daughter. Professionally I’m a…
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Ibizan Retreat
This post was finished in retrospect – some things are hard to process at the moment. Even the good stuff. I’m experiencing some late reactions to trauma I think. Something to do with being told you have only a short time to live and then having to reverse back out of the cul de sac.…
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Into the Woods
I’ve been writing this post since New Year’s Day trying to get my head around what it means to move into another year and slowly begin to pick up the pieces. Remembering what I was up to before the news almost a year ago. Just before Christmas we went to see Sondheim’s Into the Woods…
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