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A day, made

February 17th, 2010 No Comments

I’m terribly tired and woozy and hungry and grumpy and haven’t had coffee yet this morning. Even the sunshine is making me frown.
In an attempt to keep warm I’m wearing my kitty hat at my desk. You know the one. You’ve seen photos. It’s a grey crocheted beanie hat with ears. I adore it, but [...]

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On not being able to be heartbroken

March 31st, 2009 6 Comments

I wrote about my friend Stuart, who was knocked from his bike and ended up in a coma, a couple of weeks back. At the time I was furious and grief-stricken and exhausted and had to put something down. The response I got from strangers and friends alike was overwhelming.
Can I just say thank you [...]

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FYITE, World

March 10th, 2009 20 Comments

Well, this is the kind of real thing people blog about, right? Feelings, misery. It’s meant to be cathartic or some such. We’ll see.
A good friend, S, was riding his bicycle down the hill round the corner from my house Monday 2nd March, when a car turned into the road without looking and smashed into [...]

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Interview questions given a damn good seeing to

February 28th, 2009 4 Comments

The lovely Katy asked me five questions as part of the ‘Interview me’ meme because I demanded she do so. Here I give those questions a damn good seeing to, and believe me, they loved every minute of it.
The correct form for this meme is for me now to say whoever would like to be [...]

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7 Things You Probably Don’t (Ever Want To) Know About Me

January 13th, 2009 20 Comments

So I was tagged by the lovely foss to reveal 7 bits of stuff about me. Thanks for recognising my increasing desperation to do this, mate, I owe you one.
One: I’m a mutt
Apparently we mutts are going up in the world.  My father was half black Jamaican, half Polish and my mum’s Croatian. “Good [...]

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