The fairytale always ends with living happily ever after. It’s beautiful of course, yet it is still an ending… and I don’t want my story to end… our story… It begins when we meet and fall in love, and it doesn’t stop there. What happens when the story finishes? When the happy couple kiss and […]
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Falling In Love
“Oh, Fred, I’ve been so foolish. I’ve fallen in love. I’m an ordinary woman. I didn’t think such violent things could happen to ordinary people”. I can hear those words in my head, as uttered by Celia Johnson in the movie classic ‘Brief Encounter’ – a beautiful tale of forbidden love. And nobody can prepare […]
Asking for it
If you’re looking for love, or sex, or romance, or connection, how do you go about it? That initial connection can be elusive. We can’t all just stand around on steam train platforms like Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the film Brief Encounter, hoping that a little bit of coal smut will land in […]
3 little words
“I love you” – the 3 little words you’re supposed to long to hear, or wait to say… words that can change lives forever… words imbued with such importance and meaning that poets, musicians, academics, philosophers have been exploring and debating their meaning for centuries… so what would I know? I asked my friends, what […]
The script
The one… Girl meets boy, dates happen, a relationship is formed, it gets serious and exclusive, and a commitment is made, promises, a house is shared, perhaps kids… they live happily ever after, til death do them part. That is the script. It’s everywhere – from the fairytales of childhood to the TV soap, almost […]