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Hello, I think I'm becoming a blog addict! I think its the thought of being so far away from everyone on this blog, its like putting a message in a bottle.

I had to dish out some discipline tonight and it is a fraut issue. The area that I live in is a nice(ish) street in a bad wider area and my neice went to a part of the neighbourhood where she knew she was not allowed to go and straight up lied about the circumstances, saying that she was being supervised by a friends mother when she wasn't. The law was layed down and she will be apologising to the woman in question tommorow. The kids around here are not bad kids but they are unsupervised and as shes getting older the gap between what they are allowed to do and she is allowed to do is widening. Since she moved up to high school (that happens at 11 here) she has been out a lot less because of homework and also some extra dance rehersals and so there has been a change in the dynamic of her friendship group. A (childless) friend of mine thinks I'm being too hypervigilant. That maybe true. I wish she could just run wild in a safe environment forever infact I wish we all could!

I am rediscovering Jilly Cooper she is a English author who writes in 70s/80s upper crust English milieur, lots of horses and dogs, in a kind of sexy blockbuster style which is at alternately hilarious, sweet and intensly arousing! Its all set in pre post modern times and drink driving, xenophobia and indiscriminate unprotected sex are relatively guilt free pursuits! I don't condone any of these activities but its impossibly glamourous and is helping me through the dark winter nights.

I am geering up for a big Winter solstice/Christmas clean and polish. i want everything to shine and smell good. MY mop and I laugh in the face of 8 hours light a day. I spied some lovely adolescent holy in my local park. Do you guys have holly too? The baby stuff is soft and flexible and canary yellow and it darkens and stiffens as it matures. the teenagers are lovely and speckled. I am planning on cutting some and putting it round the house.

Life is beautiful. I am grateful to be in the fight.