A million words

The email is profoundly depressing, but it’s right. I wanted yearning and regret, I wanted tender words of lost love, I wanted support and hand holding, I wanted impossible things, I wanted all that. All that. And then more.

I asked him to write me something sweet to hang onto when we spoke last, but he hasn’t. I know he is writing for me a million words, he is writing for me for weeks and … Continue Reading

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Survey: Results part II

I’ve been trying to figure out how to post the ‘free text’ parts of the survey. To me, they are the most interesting responses because you all got to say whatever you wanted, but obviously, there is no way to categorise them, nor do I want to try and fit them into little boxes.

So, I have decided to slip them in at random, little snippets of feedback drip-fed through the posts in no particular … Continue Reading

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Submissive leanings

He is a work colleague: smart, driven, funny, engaging, good at his job. I like him and enjoy working with him. We talked all the time on the phone, but had never met because, well, he’s in North America and I am not.

We were on a call, I was carefully trying to explain something to him, he was distracted, obviously doing something else over there across the ocean. I got exasperated and snapped at … Continue Reading

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Survey: Results part I

I did have fun with this!!

I will do it in a few parts. The responses with comments are, of course, the most interesting, but also the most difficult to do a show and tell with. This first look at the survey will be the easy ones, and oh look! Graphs! Whheeeee!!!

Click the graphs to get a better look at them.

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Survey: Last chance…

I’ll be closing the survey tomorrow, making graphs (yes, yes, I am a complete nerd… but not nerdy enough to be a geek, which would make me much cooler!!) and figuring out how to hold that mirror up with all of the interesting information about you. Secrets!

I am delighted that so many quiet readers have ventured out from behind the keyboard to share some snippets with me (hello you!).

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For the IT geeks…

(because no-one else will think this is funny…)

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Survey: Quick and dirty

There are some questions that you asked in my survey that are easy to answer, I like easy! If you want to out yourselves as the owners of said questions by fessing up in the comments, feel free… the confession box is open…

Ready? Here goes:

A daily cartoon strip?

*laugh* Ummmm… no, but that did make me laugh. And I have included a couple that I stole from elsewhere*, just for you!


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