Dear Alexandra, Another two months since returning here, I had to go through some rigmarole to even be able to log in as I removed the email account associated with this blog from my phone, and in the intervening weeks I transferred my main email account from Google to Apple…

Dear Alexandra, Well it’s been about six weeks. And it’s been awesome. It sounds terribly melodramatic, but I’d kinda forgotten what being happy felt like. …

Dear Alexandra, Well, more than two weeks since writing probably tells its own story doesn’t it. After all that talk of caution in my last letter I think it’s fair to say we might have let our baser feelings run away from us. Unexpected, certainly, unwelcome — not so much. …

Dear Alexandra, Since that initial reconnection we’ve been in much more regular contact, mostly by message but we did have another FaceTime call too. Not quite the epic marathon that we had before, but it was still really nice to see and talk to you. For the most part, it…

Dear Alexandra, Another week break from the letter writing. Last time out I was, amongst the waffle, speculating whether those tentative reactions to things on Facebook (in both directions from us) were metaphorical olive branches, or water testing mechanisms on some level. …

Dear Alexandra, It’s been a week since I last wrote. I think that’s a record! Generally speaking I think that is a good thing, whilst you cross my mind quite frequently, it doesn’t linger so much. Sometimes I have a brief wallow in self-pity, anger, sadness. I try not to…

Dear Alexandra, I plum forgot about my NHS therapy webinar tonight — I’m mortified, as I’m normally pretty organised! I emailed them to apologise and am watching it back now. It’s actually quite a timely one, it’s about negative thoughts and challenging them. …

Dear Alexandra, I guess it I hinted at it in my last letter and that bit of me that wanted to comment something snippy on your post. You’ve been invading my thoughts quite a bit lately, and sometimes that embittered bit of me does get a bit of mental airtime…

Dear Alexandra, I was half dreading this bank holiday weekend — I’d half-heartedly tried to make plans with folk, but they’d got plans already, but then decided that I didn’t really need to worry too much. …