August Break 2025, Day 18: My Smile

I have a horrible smile; I have a wonky lip that makes me appear to have a permanent sneer. My teeth are awful, naturally yellow, now worsened by a lifetime of drinking my coffee black. I do have a white stripe across the middle of my two front teeth, but that serves only to show up the yellow (apparently my poor enamel is a result of Measles when I was very young.) I have missing teeth, such that the gap is visible when I smile, and a mis-aligned jaw that gives me an overbite that can only be corrected by some quite drastic surgery.

December Reflections 11: Ink

I had a fantastic collection of inks, fountain pens, ink pads, rubber stamps and so on before we sold up to go and live in our motorhome. I miss my stash enormously, though I did keep a few pens and some ink cartridges to use in writing about my travels (it never happened! too busy …

Behind the lens (December Reflections 18)

This December Reflections prompt is not my favourite topic: Favourite Photo of Me. Made all the more difficult by the fact that the blog will not allow me to upload images right now. I confess that personal photographs are not my strong suite. I do not have a favourite photograph of myself – not this …

The ins and outs of it (December Reflections 13)

Today’s December Reflections prompt is: Five things about me Please bear with me. Alcohol has been partaken. None of this may make sense. I will keep it brief. Injustice. I have a strong sense of injustice. Nothing makes me more cross than an injustice. I will fight tooth and nail for the underdog, to defend …