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Going public
I was going to write this post anyway, but yesterday, serendipitously, a new twitter account appeared in my life - http://changeminds.org.uk/ It looks like an absolutely fascinating project,...
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Hello Stromanii! Hello Ann Stromanis. Hello Amy Stromanis. Hello Arturs Stromanis. Hello Dan Stromanis. Hello Joe Stromanis. Hello Adam Stromanis. I’m honestly not sure why it is you like to camp...
View ArticleHow to Blog
Just lately, I keep seeing blogposts about ‘how to blog’, or how to increase your blogging reach’, or ‘how to make your blog more successful’. And they irritate the shit out of me. Seriously. I...
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Today's the day
This is becoming something of a tradition. I’ve started marking today. Because today is the day I didn’t die, six years ago. Today is the day I lived. For the first few years afterwards,...
View ArticleDear A
The Mulberry28thFebruary 2016 Dear A, That was a bit fucking weird, wasn’t it? One the one hand, we’re so used to each other that coming to your house tonight and having a drink whilst The...
View ArticleCold calling
An unwelcome reminder of normal life arrived last night. Announcing itself with a RAT A TAT TAT on my double locked front door, with security chain on. My immediate thought was that it must be a...
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Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
I knew this time would come. I knew it, I expected it, but I didn’t anticipate it. I am Having A Wobble. It’s well overdue. You don’t go through the sort of crap I’ve dealt with in the last...
View ArticleHopes and fears
It’s the middle of April, so I thought I’d tell you that my favourite Christmas carol is O Little Town of Bethlehem. I can’t truly say why. Something about the combination of lyrics and music, the...
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Southern sky
It’s been a long time that I’m waiting,It’s been a long time that I’ve blown.It’s been a long time since I’ve wanderedThrough the people I have knownAnd if you would and you couldStraighten my new...
View ArticleRelay race
For S, who is running her own race I’m not, never have been, never will be sporty, athletic, or even especially healthy. I skived off as much PE at school as was humanly possible, and the idea...
View ArticleUdderly unthinkable
A couple of people have suggested to me recently that I ought to start dating. Hang on, sorry, you’re not going to get much sense out of me for a bit, admire the view, talk amongst yourselves,...
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I am fucking starving. Absolutely fucking starving. Literally, starving. I don’t eat much, these days. In the early days of What Happened, I managed, a bit. Then Mum came and took over...
View ArticleThe canary
There is a bird that lives inside my chest. I call it my canary. It’s the first warning sign to me that a situation is potentially dangerous. When I feel the first flutter of wings against my...
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Daughter of time
Happy 8th birthday, my delightful daughter. Happy birthday, my darling. I got it wrong, didn’t I? I’ve always said you’re tough, resilient. I never worried about you in the way I did about...
View ArticleMemo to Turner
I get it. He’s your friend, your son, your brother. He’s been accused of doing something terrible. You don’t believe it. You can’t believe it. You won’t believe it. That sweet boy with the blue...
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Passing notes
Quite a few months ago now, in what seems like a hideously distorted dreamscape of events I’m no longer certain took place; I had a Very Bad Day. One of my worst days, in fact. As bad a day as is...
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Wallflowers
Look at that. It’s not much, is it? But whilst it certainly hasn’t changed my life, unlike another little graffito not so far away, it perhaps explains why graffiti exerts such a hold on me. I...
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Historical Romance
Hnnnyeah, it’s not for me. If I want history, I’ll read a book by a historian. If I want romance… be grateful you can’t see my face right now, because romance can fucking fuck off and do one as...
View ArticleThe truth about love Part II
The truth about love I wrote that nearly 18 months ago. 'The truth about love'. Seems a bit glib now. It was true, still is, in some ways. There are no lies in it. But the truth as it is now, is...
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Tinned ravioli
Here’s a story that will tell you how much of an over empathic twat I am. When I was about eight or nine, dinner was quite often just me on my own at the kitchen table for one night a week....
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