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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.

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...

ADVENTUROUS AWOC IN THE SKIES

KATH THOMAS So, there I was, stood in my garden one day in late October 2007 surveying the recent fall of apples when I heard the chug,...

REFLECTIONS ON AGEING WITHOUT CHILDREN

By the T.E.D. AGEING BETTER team, East Lindsey (talk, eat, drink). Dr Hayden Bird TED in East Lindsey and Ageing Better How can...

THE MOTHER'S DAY LEGACY

BY JANE BRIGHTMAN (and the Other One) Having been unable to have children myself, I’ll be honest and say that Mother’s Day is always a...

AWOC ON THE FRONT LINE - ON THE RADIO

BY JOY PEART My name is Joy Peart and I'm an AWOC, Ageing Without Children. Welcome to the front line of what it means to be A.W.O.C. It...

THE EVERGREEN ECHO

FOR IDIOTS LIKE WHAT I AM Some may question what the following has to do with being childless. Maybe, on first read, it doesn't but read...

A WALK AND A THOUGHT...

Lincolnshire landscapes with big skies, strong easterlies. Heading back from the woods alongside the River Bain. A kestrel was hovering...

WHO CARES

by JOY ANDERSON Inspired by a lovely blog I read tonight by Patricia Faulks, I thought I might have a stab at writing an article also....

SOLO NATURE LIVING

Co housing v living solo in nature? Excuse, whilst justmeandlilley have a conflab. We have conflabbed and here is our analysis of the...

SINGLE AND CHILDLESS

BY KATH THOMAS Dressed as Willow the Wisp for our local Theatre's production of Little Red Riding Hood Looking back, it all started at...

A MAN'S JOURNEY...

The impact of childlessness on a relationship When we were young we assumed we would have kids. There was no doubt about it. Not in...

HOW I GOT HERE: CHILDFREE BY CHOICE

AWOC AT 52 By Yvonne Wiacek. AWOC Dorset 'Tell your story' says Trish Faulks, AWOC. Well, first I had to get used to being called an...

TAKING IT TO THE BEACH - AWOC FAMILY STYLE

Marie with Barney, me with beach first-timer Lilley and Millie with Daisy Dachshund The Three Amigos Love this shot. We took loads and...

CHILDLESSNESS - NOT FOR CISSIES

RE-CALIBRATING AT 72 justmeandlilley OR a childless elder and small dog battling it out on a grass verge I'm not sure I've ever...

A CHILDLESS ELDER - SPEAKS

The loneliness of being a childless person as an elder. The occasional dark emptiness of it. A gaping hole where children and...