In a bun dance

If I'm going to get something, I usually get it in spades - luck (both kinds), children, clutter, dirty laundry, bright ideas, daft ideas...

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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 […]

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. […]

Reframing specs appeal

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New glasses yesterday. They’re purple and I can see clearly* through them. (*insert music) It would be easy to write a(nother) post about how things change as time passes. You know? Night life is all about the right moment for giving in to the call of the PJs rather than the hall with the DJs. […]