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24 Jun 2022
This line by Nora Ephron in the introduction to the second edition of Heartburn is *chef’s kiss*
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28 Dec 2021
🎵 On the fourth day of Christmas
the NHS gave to me
a covid booster vaccine 🎵
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27 Dec 2021
Ah Betwixtmas. Loathed by many but truly a golden time for the introvert as we are finally left alone to read our new stack of books. Where others wander dazed and confused, we luxuriate in the hazy nothing days before the onslaught of New Years recalls us to the real world.
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2 Oct 2021
I bought this wine 70% for the label so imagine my delight when I removed the cork and found a second smaller grumpy drinking bear .
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13 Mar 2021
In my very quiet corner of Hampshire a candle burns this evening for #SarahEverard , all the women standing in solidarity at Clapham Common and for all of us who’ve walked with keys between fingers, stomach clenched, heart pounding, praying and hoping that tonight it’s not us.
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24 Dec 2020
I’ve always loved the melancholy of In the Bleak Midwinter but seeing it performed in a congregationless Carols from Kings makes it feel particularly apt this year.
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21 Dec 2020
Will this finally be the year?
15 Dec 2020
Give her what she really wants this Christmas, a home library with at least two secret entrances, one benign ghost, a window to let in the messenger crows, and a collection of vintage leather-bound classics
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5 Dec 2020
This child is my Christmas shopping hero.
5 Dec 2020
[Overheard at the bookshop]
Man: We’re shopping for presents for other people today, not just for you
Little girl: Then I don’t want to do it
30 Nov 2020
Why do Christmas themed scented things reek of artificial orange or overpowering cloves rather than the nicest of all Christmas fragrances: gently baking Christmas cake?
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23 Oct 2020
The theme of tonight’s yoga class was “core matters”. It finished 20 minutes ago and I can’t lift my arms above shoulder height. I’m not convinced core matters THAT much.
17 Jun 2020
Copywriting perfection.
16 May 2020
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11 May 2020
Animals today are all the wrong sizes.
11 May 2020
Cygnus falconeri was a giant swan that lived on a Mediterranean island alongside dwarf elephants.
(Credit: Studio 252MYA)
10 May 2020
This might be my favourite thing to come out of lockdown so far 😍
9 May 2020
So one day maybe six years ago, myself and @geowriter were on a walk to Durdle Door (like Lizzie Bennett we are excellent walkers and we decided we should write 'Pride and Prejudice on Facebook'. But we never did. Until lockdown. Here it is....