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My preoccupation with the government’s inability to contemplate the possibility that people who aren’t cohabiting might still want to be able to have s…

Apr 7

According to a study published in the BMJ today, half of people surveyed do not know the main symptoms of Covid-19. Half. HALF! HALF?? Is this an April…

Apr 1

When I was learning Dutch, I chose, by chance, a school that had a contract with the Dutch government to teach refugees. In consequence, half of the st…

Mar 25

…not for me but for my blog, which I have switched from Tinyletter to Substack, after Tinyletter put me into newsletter jail for this post about street…

Mar 13

One night, early on in my time of living in Amsterdam, I was walking with my then boyfriend in the park near our flat, and we had a one of those incons…

Mar 12

Just a quickie to say that I have contributed a particularly silly and fun story - or one-person comedy sketch perhaps? a humourous monologue? not sure…

Feb 5

Do they still say that if you watch too much television you'll get square eyes? Or is that an expression that went out of fashion when kids started spe…

Jan 2

I have recently started keeping a gratitude journal. I do not admit this lightly. It seems like the kind of gateway drug to a post that begins "I have …

Oct 23, 2020

When I was at school, it became known in the playground as a matter of fact that everybody dreams in black and white. When some of us tried to contradi…

Aug 30, 2020

Given my mails about walking, dancing and swimming, you may have mistaken me for a sporty person. This is not the case. True, when I was little, I was …

Aug 3, 2020

One of the things I was saddest to leave behind in Dorset was the sea. My parents' house is only a minute from the waterfront, and my father swims ever…

Jul 27, 2020

Yesterday I was walking across my local park when suddenly I felt a powerful, painful smack between my shoulder blades as if someone had thrown somethi…

Jul 10, 2020

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