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It's a weird day today, watching your country enthusiastically vote for ideals that you stand so firmly against. Earlier, as I watched the first half of the results coming in, I felt disappo...

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My Dad seemingly knows every word to every song from the 60s and 70s, including all of the major showtunes.I never knew he loved music so much and had such a diverse range, but since we got him...

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I'm bidding on my first ever ACEOs.I'd never heard of such things until I started following painting tutorials on TikTok, now I see artist's showing them all the time!I recently crea...

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I was proud of myself this week.We’re a few weeks into the new working setup, since the mass redundancies took place. And in some ways we have returned to the dynamic we had over a decade ago, ...

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You know those weeks where you try really hard and it all somehow turns out worse than if you hadn't tried at all ?!I think the weekend is to blame. I spent so long outside in the rea...

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It's been a heavier few weeks.First there was Mother's Day, which, through the kindness and thoughtfulness of those around me, we navigated gently.Then unavoidable home pressures meant m...

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I rustled through my Dad's dry foods cupboard this morning and spotted a large unopened pack of jumbo oats. Aww, they're from Grape Tree. I was with my Mum when she bought these, we were havin...

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I lost a paint pan yesterday. It flew out of my hand, bounced off the table and lodged down the back of an inaccessible radiator! Last night's paint dabble just wasn't the same without y...

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I think the words to describe this are:"Ohhhhh my word, this is AMAZING!!!"The floor is covered in colour and joy and hope and connection and it's just so flippin beautiful!What...

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I just smiled. It crept up on me unexpectedly. One minute I was laying in bed, wide awake, listening to a new song on repeat and playing one of my "calm the f**k down" puzzle games when.....

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There's a photo of my Mum in what was their shared bedroom. Tonight I looked at it as I said goodnight and felt a thunderbolt move through me. My brain didn't know the difference between a...

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After days of getting over a dodgy tummy we took an exciting New Years Day trip to the B&M discount store and I found the holy grail! A £1 kids art pad with pages so thin, that at last...

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Hereditary pancreatic cancerIt makes me wonder.. before my Mum, before her MumBefore modern diagnostics. Were there others?Maybe. Maybe not.And is it only the female line?Or just coincidence.I'm...

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This week I have learnt that there is a tremendous network of kind hearted strangers that rally around someone during their sunset period. Everyday someone phones or visits to check all is o...

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I just watched Theatre Camp, it was cosy, funny and entertaining! It was nice to see Noah Galvin shine in his own light (not least because he co-wrote it). It's got a 6.9 on IMDB, wh...

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I'm four days into daily private journalling and really enjoying it. I've been sleeping really deeply.. could late-night-brain-dumping really be making that much of a difference? I often he...

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I've long heard about the benefits of journaling, and know I could have benefited greatly from practicing such a habit, but better late than never. I've created a few, here.. multiple pr...

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