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Tales from the frontline

Here I will recount you with my tales of living without children. My tales will be random and, sometimes, current. Your tales can be the same. Tell us all here of your experiences and your life, so far. Your photos are very welcome, we can't promise to use them all but we will choose as many as we can! To contribute to the blog, please get in touch via the contact page.

ARE WE HUMAN OR ARE WE UNHUMAN

(with apologies to The Killers) We made it to North Norfolk. Brancaster in the distance. Justmeandlilley on our tod. Again, I hear you...

TWO WORLDS ONE LONGING

by JULIE GREENAN I'd had a negative Covid test at last so I left the flat to walk up to the library. A sunny, warm, early autumn...

OLDER, ALONER, AFRAIDER - CHILDLESS EH?

True love this, you know? Finally I'm writing my new blog piece. It's been a while since me and her were last seen alive on here. I was...

LONELY Michael Hughes

THE FULL STOP PODCAST When Trish asked me to write a guest blog post, I immediately said yes as I don’t often get asked to do this. Not...

BEING CHILDLESS IS NOT A CHOICE

Sandy Lane, near Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. Showing more of the landscape otherwise my head gets cut off on social media pages. Just...

WHEN DOES LIFE GET BACK TO NORMAL

by KATE GWYNNE This is Kate Gwynne who lives with her husband in Wales. Kate has an important role working with the elderly in the social...

LONELY AND AGEING

Taking a rest on one of the iron sculptures on the Spa Trail near the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, Aren't we lucky? I'm pretty sure...

LILLEY SPEAKS

On Lilley's magic seat here. It really is magical sometimes. We look out over the river with all the different birdlife, wildlife, the...

OUTSIDE LOOKING IN FOR CHRISTMAS

The outside looking in - we childless, aloners. Family, grandma, twinkly lights, carols, snow. idealistic family scenes not including you...

AND SO IT IS CHRISTMAS. ARE YOU HAVING FUN?

Very regal. Actually sat on a round piece of slate, set as a tiny stool, because we were knacked. By the River Witham, Kirkstead Bridge,...

AGEING, CHILDLESS, MARGINALISED?

sub plot: The Ageing Word Birthday lunch at The Petwood Hotel, Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, a wander round the gardens and fountains....

AGEING AND SEX

A walk along the Spa Trail, the old railway line, at Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. A rather inspiring stroll for me and Lil. A catch up...

GRIEVING FOR MY CHILDLESS LIFE

We're not sitting on Lilley's magic seat but at an equally mystical, magical place called Bag Enderby, near Somersby in the Lincolnshire...

MY DAD AND A HORSE CALLED BALLY

At the start of one of our journeys to enlightenment at a Wildlife Trust walk called Furze Hills Meandher love our lonely walks. Solitary...

BEING AWOC SHOULD NOT MEAN BEING VULNERABLE

A visit for Lilley to LucaVet, Market Rasen, Lincolnshire meant we got chance to view beautiful St Thomas' Church, Market Rasen. Living...

FINDING BALANCE AND PEACE AMONGST THE NOISE

Is life boring? Nowadays, I mean? For we awocs, we older folk. For as I focus on ageing without children, alone, childless, it seems...

RECLUSIVE ALONER V EVIL

I was yelled at by a stranger as me and Lilley were out walking, the other day. 'You Are The Scumbag' was what she screamed. At me… More...

THE ELDERLY, LONELY CHILDLESS OR GRANNYLESS

Holding the baby Lilley, of course. She'll do for me... Do we count? Those of us who are childless, choice or otherwise, do we count'?...

THIS IS LINDA'S STORY

Linda and Colin with Xanthe and Phoebe (official Service Assistance Dogs) taken recently, at local Garden Centre Linda and Colin are a...

ASHAMED TO BE AWOC LONELY

I used this photo as a header because I wanted to show how happy one can be when in company of friends, family, acquaintances...just give...