I had my life financially reviewed today by the bank – but in a good way – someone who was not me looked at my habits – which are those of someone who forgets to stop being a mother and have a life of my own. Not that I don’t have a fabulous life but constantly supporting children who are no longer children and not looking after your own needs benefits nobody – especially the children – they need tough love. “Where do you want to go in the long term” asked yer man. “To a cottage in Dalkey and spend my purple years tottering down to Finnegans and having my lunch and a dry sherry there with other mad literary women and being known as that mad, gas, funny, writing woman up the road”. He thought this was a splendid plan. I think so too. He said that if I sold my current house the children (men) would have to go and I could kill two birds with the one stone. It’s only a thought. You only need to start with a thought – that’s enough. No further action is currently required. Afterwards I went and had my hair cut by Katrina from Poland who is a genius and then had coffee with an old chum.. Tomorrow I may have coffee with a man in the morning. Then I will rake the leaves off the lawn. The man in the bank said my children should be doing that. He is right. Yesterday I took as many clothes to Oxfam as I could carry on the bus. I will repeat this exercise as often as possible. It is a step in the right direction. Change is in the Autumn air in the the Autumn of my life. 
This a picture of a garden in Florence where I had a nice time last summer. Chat soon.
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