Tag: countrylife
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78: JOURNAL
A couple of days ago, I finished writing the journal (or the part of it)* I kept throughout Lizzie’s brush with cancer… from summer 2021 to summer 2022. I’m incredibly excited to have finished it! After all, what started off as a distraction to help me keep my sanity, in dark times, has now turned…
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77: CEREAL
It’s morning and I’m looking through the cupboard in the kitchen, where we keep the breakfast cereal. Plain corn flakes. Plain multigrain hoops. Plain Rice Krispies. Plain Weetabix. Quakers Oat Cereal (ugh). Quakers Oat Muesli with Seeds and Nuts (double ugh). Where the HELL are the chocolate Crispy Minis? Or the Crunchy Nut Clusters? Or…
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76: MOVIE
Lizzie and I are in the sitting room, talking about who the stars would be, if they ever made a movie of Stop Telling Me I’m Brave. ‘I think Maggie Gyllenhaal should play me,’ says Lizzie. Her resemblance to the actress (of Secretary and Dark Knight fame) has been remarked upon in the past, so…
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AND OTHER STORIES
I’m back! Or, I should say, Stop Telling Me I’m Brave is back! So, the plan is I’m going to continue putting up new posts every week or so, for the foreseeable future, until I crack up and give up (or until you do, dear reader). As I said in the last post (called ‘The…
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