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  • The Widow Vibe: Pink Platforms and resisting the ‘Three Year Wall.’

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    A long silence from Cold Comfort Cottage, I know, but I have been slowly working up to saying a farewell to my Mac friends who have helped me through the very worst. 
     It was – literally - a life ago that I began this blog.  I was tentatively reaching out to the Mac world.  Blogs?  What were blogs?  I didn’t really know and got into all sorts of trouble because I questioned the motives of those who felt the…
  • The Widow Vibe: Not life as I knew it … and some helpful tips for friends and relations of the recently widowed.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    If going out to work, managing to feed and walk The Hounds, feed myself (just), deal with the Ancient Aga and its filthy flues, dig myself out of snow, bring in the logs, deal with the mousetraps …and so on, and so forth  …. if doing all this means that I am ‘doing well,  I am ‘doing well.’ 
     
    Despite snow shoveler’s elbow (the very unsporting cousin of tennis elbow), and the fact…

  • The Widow Vibe: Going 'Spare'

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

     
    What with digging myself out of the snow to get to work, worrying about the quickly depleting supplies of fuel to keep the various antiquated heating systems fired up, slithering back over the icy roads at lunch time to let The Hounds out, I hadn’t had much time to think about Christmas.
     
    Not that Christmas could be completely forgotten – that would be impossible with all those relentlessly insistent…
  • The Widow Vibe: Black Widow?

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Sorry – this is a long one – again.  Stick with me. 
     
    I was up on the ladders a few days ago:  there were gutters to mend – intractable cast iron ones, the joints of which have terminally rusted.  
     
    The rain has been pouring down the outside of the walls of Cold Comfort Cottage for nearly two years –  cancer rather eclipsed the minor matter of household maintenance.
     
    Of course, in…
  • The Widow Vibe - And the Question of Time

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    It was eighteen weeks today. 
     
    And it is nearly a year since I started the blog on this site. I don’t know how many of my original readers are still here … ‘Stuff’, as they say, ‘happens’.  And there is some ‘stuff’ that none of us want to think about happening because it is just too hard …
     
    I want to know where some of you have gone, how you are, but…