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Good Grief! Del Hughes gets the kitchen roll out for a bereavement breakdown

Del Hughes Right now I’m ugly-crying, the bin’s brimming with sodden kitchen-roll (Regina XXL), and my eyelids are so swollen…

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Mint – the garden tyrant that just keeps on giving

Sarah Morgan Jones While growing veg and fruit tends to deliver later in the season, there are two things in…

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Embracing the silver sisterhood: Del Hughes spends an evening with the WI

Del Hughes My hair’s brushed, I’ve got lippy on and I’m wearing a bra for the first time since Covid.…

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Wiccan Wanderers – Del Hughes embarks on a wild night of widdershins and witchy woo

Del Hughes We’re one minute into the Witching Hour, the full moon is low in the sky and I’m on…

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From Patagonia to Pwlldu – a half baked plan that turned into an epic adventure

Sarah Morgan Jones Ria Bevan is no stranger to a long walk. She regularly takes off in her Birkenstocks to…

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Tanked up – when the road to inner peace takes a decidedly salty turn

Del Hughes I’m starkers, sweating, smeared in petroleum jelly and wondering why the hell I let Jen talk me into…

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Parting the Veil: the further (psychic) adventures of Jen and Del

Del Hughes My Kangoo (a.k.a. Geoff) is fuelled up, his engine is purring beneath the turquoise bonnet and the besom…

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Testing positives – finding little chinks of light in the darkest of times

Del Hughes Covid. Yep, I know, we’ve all had it to the back teeth with this sodding virus which continues…

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The flavour of memory on Mother’s Day

Sarah Morgan Jones When I sat up in bed all clean and fresh and ravenous after a reasonably short but…

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Naked attraction – when still life imitates art

Del Hughes Look, I don’t profess to be an expert on muff grooming. Yes, in my younger years, I’ve had…