I like to say stuff. This has been the case since I learned to turn infantile noises into fully formed words and phrases. However, this burgeoning new skill was sometimes a source of embarrassment for my parents, coming as it did without any of the checks and balances provided by the complementary skills of tact […]
The Return Of The Chocolate Lab Reports
Hi everyone it’s me Wispa, I just found out how to get into Mum’s new computer not saying her security is pawful but it’s a darn sight easier to get into than my biscuit cupboard so I thought that whilst I was here I’d have a quick yap with you all. The first picture […]
When life gives you lemons
As I wrote the title for this blog I was drawn to use an analogy with which most of us are familiar, without fully understanding why and what my point would be. In 1915 it was the American writer Elbert Hubbard who is accredited with saying that: ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ In […]
We have lift off!
The Funny Thing About Being a Widow?- On a Dating Site is available from today on Amazon. https://amzn.eu/d/09RSUkk1 Honest reviews really help indie authors to make their work visible to others. Thank you. If you can learn to laugh again, so can you learn to live again Sandra E Manning
1st July 1978-2024
There are 46 years between the dates in the title of this post. Enough years to count as a lifetime and yet, they seem to have passed by in no time. On the 1st of July 1978, my father gave me away to the man who would remain steadfastly by my side for the next […]
Game set and Match! – 2nd update
Yep!! It’s May already and at last, the sun is shining having failed to turn up for spring thus far. Spring is my favourite season of the year, but like the sun, I am guilty of being absent on parade this year for various reasons some of them even legitimate. That being said, progress has […]
Game set and match! 1st update
It has been just over a week now since my last confession and it has been one that has yielded mixed results. Like our esteemed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made 5 pledges aimed at improving the health of the nation, I chose 5 aimed at improving my own. I have no clue as […]
Game set and match!
First service Tie break This morning I awoke to find myself on the potential cusp of a whole new start. Not that there haven’t been many other occasions when I have made this exact same proclamation only for my good intentions to evaporate into the ether usually by lunchtime on the same day. […]
Leyla- the baby with a broken heart
I thought I knew and understood heartbreak. After all, you can not write a book with a title such as The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? unless you possess a hard-earned degree in devastation. Though I truly believed after losing my husband that my heart had broken beyond repair, the resilient, hard-working organ in […]
Dating After Decades
I had the very great pleasure recently of being interviewed by Kathleen Pickrel from Tucson in Arizona to talk to her about my book The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? In the book, one of the topics I cover is dating again after the loss of a spouse or partner and how that has […]