The Art of Extra & Ordinary

04/12/2025

https://sally3503.wixsite.com/option2/post/stop-streets

It’s been a while, I agree; it seems that my extra and ordinary life has turned into a rather ordinary one. At 55, I am middle-aged. The adult children have left home, and now I have a new thing. Spare time. Spare time is not good; spare time kills inspiration and gives you too much time to think....

17/11/2025

To all the extras and ordinaries

04/09/2025

https://sally3503.wixsite.com/option2/post/auntie-enid-s-90th-featuring-morris
Another special lady to celebrate

On a phone call home, my mother mentions that the family is planning to meet up to celebrate Auntie Enid’s 90th birthday. How nice, I muse. My mother likes to go into detail; she explains that they'll be flying into Leeds Bradford with Julia and Andrés, and Nicola will drive up from London. They'...

02/09/2025

02/09/2025

It all began with this

They say it was love at first sight, at least that’s what Mummy says. So, the story goes that Mummy looked across a crowded room, saw a group of young men, and without hesitation turned to her friends and said, 'I’ll take the blond.'One thing we have never known is Daddy’s version of events. W...