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By Gillie Posted on 7th Aug 20217th Aug 2021

Considering the Lilies

Everywhere I walked there were day lilies. Huge clumps of them. Each flower so perfect, blooming just for that one day

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By Gillie Posted on 3rd Jul 20213rd Jul 2021

To Have And To Hold

What does one wear to a wedding that one won’t be attending?

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By Gillie Posted on 22nd May 202122nd May 2021

Trilliums Among the Trash

I needed that, the sudden shock of something longed for, manifest.

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By Gillie Posted on 20th Mar 202120th Mar 2021

The Uses of Water

Come with me, on my favourite walk at this time of year, down Mill Road alongside the La Pêche river

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By Gillie Posted on 20th Feb 202127th Feb 2021

A Little Bit Sheepish

Unless you have spent time with sheep, you are likely to see them as virtually identical. Not at all. I’d have you know that sheep are all individuals with their own characters and peculiarities.

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By Gillie Posted on 16th Jan 202123rd Jan 2021

A Good Yarn

Received wisdom has it that you should never knit your boyfriend a sweater.

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By Gillie Posted on 12th Dec 202020th Dec 2020

Seeing Red

If I had to describe Wakefield as a colour, it would be the colour red.

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By Gillie Posted on 31st Oct 20201st Nov 2020

In defence of of small beauties

small day to day experiences can hold just as much richness as visits to exotic lands, or just as much of a thrill as leaping off tall buildings.

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By Gillie Posted on 26th Sep 202026th Sep 2020

Semi-annual performance review

I’ve been asking my plants the same questions I ask my team “How are you doing?” “What do you need?”

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By Gillie Posted on 29th Aug 202029th Aug 2020

A Portable Paradise

It was there; the hushed quiet, the smell and the dappled green of the cathedral-like trees, my first sense of paradise.

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By Gillie Posted on 4th Jul 202019th Jul 2020

Picture This

By the time we were making our way home, none of us could remember why a naked photo shoot was a good idea.

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By Gillie Posted on 30th May 202030th May 2020

Trees are my people

These are noble and sacred individuals, whose dignity invites us to look at who we are as beings.

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