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Indigestion

Posted on December 18, 2023 by lesleyjonesberry

When we are really listened to, we feel better.  We share our problems with a good friend and no decision is made, no action taken, yet our sense of emotional heaviness is so often lightened. 

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I see dead people

Posted on September 24, 2023 by lesleyjonesberry

The ghosts have returned to my dreams.  I am travelling in a car and the driver is revealed to be my dad, so I feel safe although I don’t know where I am going or why;  another time, midway through … Continue reading →

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Retrospective

Posted on November 11, 2020 by lesleyjonesberry

I’ve started reading Barney Norris’ The Vanishing Hours. The first few pages are exquisite, and chime so strongly with my current mood that I’m just going to quote from them: I thought if I could record all the beauty that … Continue reading →

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Things Unseen

Posted on March 29, 2020 by lesleyjonesberry

And the unseen eyebeam crossed, for the roses Had the look of flowers that are looked at. TS Eliot, Burnt Norton. Venice must be exquisitely beautiful at the moment. The resident population is low, so the streets will be so … Continue reading →

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Much Posessed by Death

Posted on February 3, 2019 by lesleyjonesberry

I had a half-written blog and was resisting its completion because I felt that I’d written enough about mourning and mortality.  Then, this week, I learned that my first boyfriend had died, just days short of his 56th birthday, and … Continue reading →

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A farewell to Borka

Posted on January 13, 2019 by lesleyjonesberry

A few days ago it was announced that John Burningham has died.  He wrote and illustrated children’s books and was the illustrator of Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, the book by Ian Fleming which became even more famous in a musical film version.  As … Continue reading →

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Time before and time after

Posted on February 16, 2018 by lesleyjonesberry

Last week I met up with my English teacher.  We have seen each other occasionally over the years, perhaps once a decade since she taught me at ‘A’ level many years ago.   And it occurred to me that there are … Continue reading →

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Clothes

Posted on January 7, 2018 by lesleyjonesberry

It’s January and the sense of a new start, together with tantalising offers of sales from the shops, tempts many of us to review our wardrobes. I struggle with buying clothes: faced with what seems like endless rails of garments, I find it hard to discriminate Continue reading →

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Subversive folk

Posted on May 1, 2017 by lesleyjonesberry

The most exciting television this weekend was not Line of Duty, but a moment in Doctor Who.  An episode called Thin Ice, set in 1814 London at the time of the Thames Ice Fair, and the moment comes as the … Continue reading →

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