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The saddest goodbye of them all. I can't believe that I am typing the following words. I never dreamed in a million years that I would have to report that I am facing a loss so intrinsic to my sense of self that this unfortunate turn of events has left me nothing short of devastated.... https://sandraemanning.com/2026/08/01/the-saddest-goodbye-of-them-all/
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Will this be the post that gets me cancelled?
I like to say stuff. This has been the case since I learned to turn infantile noises into fully formed words and phrases. However, this burgeoning new skill was sometimes a source of embarrassment for my parents, coming as it did without any of the checks and balances provided by the complementary skills of tact and diplomacy. Over time I learned to temper my tendency to shoot from the lip,…
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The Return Of The Chocolate Lab Reports
Hi everyone it’s me Wispa, I just found out how to get into Mum’s new computer not saying her security is pawful but it’s a darn sight easier to get into than my biscuit cupboard so I thought that whilst I was here I’d have a quick yap with you all. The first picture is of me and my lovely nurse at the hospital where I went for radiotherapy on my leg after I had an operation to remove a…
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When life gives you lemons
As I wrote the title for this blog I was drawn to use an analogy with which most of us are familiar, without fully understanding why and what my point would be. In 1915 it was the American writer Elbert Hubbard who is accredited with saying that: ‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’ In doing so, Hubbard was suggesting that when we are faced with adversity we should seek ways to turn a…
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We have lift off!
The Funny Thing About Being a Widow?- On a Dating Site is available from today on Amazon. https://amzn.eu/d/09RSUkk1 Honest reviews really help indie authors to make their work visible to others. Thank you. If you can learn to laugh again, so can you learn to live again Sandra E Manning
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1st July 1978-2024
There are 46 years between the dates in the title of this post. Enough years to count as a lifetime and yet, they seem to have passed by in no time. On the 1st of July 1978, my father gave me away to the man who would remain steadfastly by my side for the next 36 years until his death from Gastric Cancer. In 2016 on the 1st of July, I made a video on our wedding anniversary link below almost two…
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Game set and Match! - 2nd update
Yep!! It’s May already and at last, the sun is shining having failed to turn up for spring thus far. Spring is my favourite season of the year, but like the sun, I am guilty of being absent on parade this year for various reasons some of them even legitimate. That being said, progress has been made in some key areas one of which may be evident from the picture at the head of this blog but more of…
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First service Tie break This morning I awoke to find myself on the potential cusp of a whole new start. Not that there haven’t been many other occasions when I have made this exact sa…
It has been just over a week now since my last confession and it has been one that has yielded mixed results. Like our esteemed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made 5 pledges aimed at improving …
Game set and match! 1st update
It has been just over a week now since my last confession and it has been one that has yielded mixed results. Like our esteemed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who has made 5 pledges aimed at improving the health of the nation, I chose 5 aimed at improving my own. I have no clue as to what our right honourable friend has promised to do as the words of politicians these days rarely deserve any of the…
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Game set and match!
First service Tie break This morning I awoke to find myself on the potential cusp of a whole new start. Not that there haven’t been many other occasions when I have made this exact same proclamation only for my good intentions to evaporate into the ether usually by lunchtime on the same day. This time, however, the realisation (not exactly breaking news if I am honest) that time is no…
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A Mexican adventure in honour of Leyla Mae Bell
Leyla Mae Bell, our beautiful granddaughter sadly lost her fight for life in January 2023. She slipped away quietly in the arms of her doting parents who, just like their daughter, demonstrated feats of strength and resilience normally regarded to be beyond the scope of most people. I wrote about the brave battle fought by our beautiful baby girl in an earlier article as did her mum on our…
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I thought I knew and understood heartbreak. After all, you can not write a book with a title such as The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? unless you possess a hard-earned degree in devastation. Tho…
Please share this blog about my granddaughter Leyla. She desperately needs a heart transplant.
Leyla- the baby with a broken heart
Leyla- the baby with a broken heart
I thought I knew and understood heartbreak. After all, you can not write a book with a title such as The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? unless you possess a hard-earned degree in devastation. Though I truly believed after losing my husband that my heart had broken beyond repair, the resilient, hard-working organ in my chest continued to beat, never losing the capacity to heal by itself which…
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I had the very great pleasure recently of being interviewed by Kathleen Pickrel from Tucson in Arizona to talk to her about my book The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? In the book, one of the topi…
Dating After Decades
I had the very great pleasure recently of being interviewed by Kathleen Pickrel from Tucson in Arizona to talk to her about my book The Funny Thing About Being a Widow? In the book, one of the topics I cover is dating again after the loss of a spouse or partner and how that has changed since I dated when I was younger. You can view the results of the interview at the end of this post. Kathleen is…
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When springs are bustin' out all over?
When springs are bustin’ out all over?
The above is a photograph of what until very recently was my permanent place of residence, and after performing above and beyond for almost two years my lockdown chair not unreasonably called time on its relationship with my bottom. I knew that this parting of the ways was both inevitable and necessary at some point, but had remained largely ignorant of the unhealthy nature of our relationship…
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