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![My Olympic Win](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_5223-1080x675.jpeg)
My Olympic Win
Last week I heard a witty woman on the radio suggest an alternative Olympics. She was wondering what would happen if each country had to pick their competitors via “random conscription,” instead of...
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Ancient Rules for HumanKind
Treat others as you would want to be treated yourself - is a saying I've always kept in mind. Recently I was listening to a radio item when I learnt that variations of this wise motto have Olympic...
![Losing A Best Friend](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/new-letter-losing-friend-1080x675.jpeg)
Losing A Best Friend
No more hour-long phone calls. Time's up on sharing our honest feelings and listening to each other. A cuppa together, but a memory. And I’ll likely never again have that welcome when I come to her...
![Down The Home Interiors Hole](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_4886-1080x675.jpeg)
Down The Home Interiors Hole
The idea to have curtains in my bedroom first came to me back in January. I spent a couple of weeks debating with myself if curtains would allow me to roll up the blinds and have the two windows...
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Cool Cats Don’t Copy
On an evening stroll around Belsize Village, I chanced upon such a beauty that I instantly fell in lust. A sleek two-seater Ferrari, translated in my imagination to a regal black panther, compelled...
![Stayin’ Alive By Being Live](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Newsletter-march24-stayin-live-edited-1080x675.jpeg)
Stayin’ Alive By Being Live
Call me behind time but I only just watched the 2020 Oscar winning Nomadland. What I love about this beautifully scripted and superbly filmed movie is how it shows the power of a kind community to...
![Stop And Taste The Cake](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Time-Art-cake-for-New-Letter-slow-down-1080x675.jpeg)
Stop And Taste The Cake
I’m a hyper local lass. It could be a habit left over from lockdowns, but truth is everything I need is in Belsize Park or Hampstead or on the Finchley Road. In the spring and summertime, I might...
![With 2023 In The Rear-View Mirror](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5192-1080x675.jpeg)
With 2023 In The Rear-View Mirror
Perhaps like me you were coughing through the last days of 2023 and as soon as Secret Santa had been played out, you found yourself several films and series later at New Year’s Eve with a...
![One Wise King and One Wise Queen](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Oxford-street-xmas-2018-1080x675.jpeg)
One Wise King and One Wise Queen
At Christmastime I often think about people who would like to celebrate but can’t. Many of us experienced that when Christmas 2020 was cancelled, but this year as usual, families and friends will...
![Feel Good Between The Covers Of A Novel](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bijal-Shah-book-and-photo-768x675.jpeg)
Feel Good Between The Covers Of A Novel
This Christmas, I might do something different and buy a book prescription as a gift for a friend or relative. Mostly I’m inspired because I recently met book curator and bibliotherapist Bijal Shah...
![Finding Perspective in The Netherworld](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/full-moon-photo-new-letter11-1080x675.png)
Finding Perspective in The Netherworld
I’ve just recovered from an inflammation which forced me to spend a week in bed and only go out for food essentials, despite the early October t-shirt weather which I really wanted to be in. I was...
![Also Bronze and Gold Linings in every Cloud](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_2714-1080x675.jpeg)
Also Bronze and Gold Linings in every Cloud
Oftentimes I deal with a situation which appears to be bad by entitling it as: A Blessing in Disguise. As I’ve always been a chaser of blessings, the moment trouble appears I’m checking out its...
![Revealing How I Work](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/newletter-pyjamas-photo-edited-1080x675.jpeg)
Revealing How I Work
On any morning of the week a house moth on my wall will spy me sitting at my laptop, working in pyjamas. My deceased uncle Easy would've approved as whenever as a child I visited him on certain...
![In Memory of Mo Foster](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Mo-Foster-1080x675.jpg)
In Memory of Mo Foster
In our winter 2021 edition of In The Square, I featured an interview with the charismatic musician Mo Foster who lived most of his life in Belsize Village. On 3 July this year Mo passed. I went to...
![How In The Square Was Born](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2-trees-on-Bg-early-May-to-use-1080x675.jpeg)
How In The Square Was Born
It’s almost two years since I first had the idea for a local print magazine for Belsize Park. I was on one of those going-nowhere lockdown walks when I chanced upon a TV celebrity comedian and after...
![Relax…It’s Legal](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Cockapoo-Dreaming-871x675.jpeg)
Relax…It’s Legal
Recently I spent an entire day and evening in my pyjamas on my bed and couch, and I wasn’t unwell. I listened to the radio, watched two films, read some, ate, stared out the window - that’s all. It...
![No Prescription Needed To Be Generous](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/newsletter-generosity5-1080x675.jpeg)
No Prescription Needed To Be Generous
February was a tough one. We all expected low temperatures and high costs, but added to our personal challenges, war in Ukraine wears on, Turkey had a mammoth earthquake, essential services have...
![Not Stuck In Reverse](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_5177-1080x675.jpeg)
Not Stuck In Reverse
Is there an implicit consensus for when we should stop saying Happy New Year to each other? As I make the next edition of In The Square, which should be ready as our cherry trees blossom, I’m still...
![Each To Their Own Way](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/M-with-hoover-2-1080x675.jpeg)
Each To Their Own Way
Domestic chores come around too fast. Sunday is my must-do day to put on a wash, hoover, wipe surfaces with the sprays stashed under the sink, and flit around my flat with a magnetic duster on a...
![I’m Dreaming Of…Christmas Shopping](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/newsletter2-drink-bottle-edited-1080x675.jpeg)
I’m Dreaming Of…Christmas Shopping
The usual dilemma is what to buy people for Christmas. My problem is how to match the lovely potential gifts I find at December arts and craft fairs to them that are in my life. Some might say that...
![Five Hundred Kilos to Chase Away the Winter Blues](https://inthesquarebelsize.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/newsletter1-piano-edited-2-1080x675.jpeg)
Five Hundred Kilos to Chase Away the Winter Blues
On the night that the clocks went back and I was thinking about how it would be dark before my teatime, I realised that I needed a new hobby. The jigsaw puzzles and bread making that had carried me...