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Tuesday, 29 March 2022

 



Did you know a whole person can disappear into a book?

 For hours if  you do it properly.

 Undisturbed and uninterrupted. 

Open the book, flip the page and start to read, before long you find your self in a world with no recollection of when you stepped through the door or how you'll find your way back again.


I learnt this when I was little girl. My love for books grew from my parents reading me bedtime stories before I learnt how to read. It's the longest affair I have ever had. My Father loved to read Three Billy Goats Gruff with a booming animated voice for the troll. 


"WHO IS TRIP TRAPPING ALL OVER MY BRIGDE?"

(If you know, you know)


All the schools I attended  up to 13 years of age, had the best libraries, magical colourful places with endless shelves of books for all reading ages and tastes, bean bags and kind helpful librarians. 


I remember the first book I couldn't stop reading was Matilda by Roald Dahl. I hid it in my French exercise book during the primary school lesson and I think the smirk on my face gave me away. I got in trouble, but it was light trouble...How can one be mad at a child obsessed with reading?


I enjoyed bringing books home to read to my mother in the evenings as she knitted scarves, hats , baby sweaters and booties. 

 

My handwritten membership card filled up quickly because I reveled in the compulsory one hour a week reading time in the library. 


I was a Red House Book Club member! I got to order new books every year from their catalogue. I don't think they exist anymore...if they do correct me in the comment section

Remembering and blogging about these memories brings me so much pleasure.


Some of my favourite books included:

Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian

The Twits by Roald Daul

The BFG by Roald Daul

The Lorax by Dr Seuss

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone- J.K Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -J.K Rowling 

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Charlotte's Web by E.B White 


I hope part of my legacy will be the books I leave behind... a private library maybe? 



What about you?

When did your love affair begin? 

What are you fondest memories? 

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Dating: Anxious Attachment Style & Childhood Wounds

Monday, 14 March 2022

 




I wrote about it last time.

This stubborn fear. 

A persistent and committed fear that sounds the alarm at 10.00 am on Sunday 
or 1.00 am every other day. 

This bright lazy Sunday with crusty fairy dust still at the corners of my eyes,
 I recognized her for what she was.

Little Maria screaming for attention inside of me. 

She is frustrated, flustered and uncomfortable. 

Petrified that we will make the same mistakes again. 

"What are you doing?"

"Have we not learnt our lessons from the past?"

"Trust?"

"There is no trust."

We can't trust humans with our whole self like that.

They let us down.

They hurt us.

"Stop, forgetting."

"Stop getting comfortable."

She is sooo loud and sooo defiant  
that I wonder if everyone else can hear her too.

Are you struggling with an anxious attachment style too?
Share your experience in the comments.

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