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How To Tell If Your Skin Is Dry Or Dehydrated

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When you are looking at the labels on the back of skin products, you often see hydration and moisturization listed as two different things, but aren’t they the same? Actually, they’re not the same because one refers to dry skin while the other refers to dehydrated skin.  Although both of these things seem very similar, […]

Are your pigtails crispy?

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Lacking inspiration, I turn to What3Words. It’s an app that has chopped the world into three-metre squares and given each square a randomly generated three-word label. It’s knowing where you are without squinting at OS maps and trying to decide how many tenths along the tiny box your pencil mark is. Knowing where you are […]

Leaps and boundaries

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This is a boundary stone. It marks the spot where the parishes of Penrith and Edenhall meet. It stands in a field not far from my new house (did I mention I was moving?). Most people don’t notice it’s there, but once it was probably quite important – the carved letters telling wanderers where they […]

A year without signposts

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In this year of strange, one of the most strange things has been the lack of ceremony. Normally we’re cartwheeled from New Year to Christmas via back to schools, end of terms, birthdays, annual thises and celebratory thats plus a host of other unavoidable calendar signposts. Without proper Halloween or the planning, packing, sunburn peeling […]

Distractions on the way to the end of the tunnel

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It’s weird. The past 12 months have seen so many frightening and monumental things – firsts, lasts, and who’d have thoughts – yet, now, less than a week from what I hope to be a finishing line and I’m scared. Our new house is nearly finished and (everything crossed) there are no more obstacles, delays […]

Things I think about ‘best before’ dates

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Shops have a vague idea when the produce will be past it, then they subtract about a week and call it the ‘best before’ date. It seems pretty unscientific for fresh things and almost entirely meaningless for canned food. Especially so for water or salt – which don’t, as far as I know, go off. […]