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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.

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...

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...