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Elvis never lived to be 43. I did.
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Saturday, 13 March 2021
#EveryWomanYouKnow: some advice for the nice men
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Photo from the Women's Equality Party. I don't want to be inspiring. I just want to be safe. On Monday this week, it was Internation...
Thursday, 25 February 2021
Fragments of time: art for lockdown
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Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Derek Jarman's old home. There’s a research thing about Covid that I take part in and every month they a...
Sunday, 3 January 2021
Reasons to be cheerful, part 2: creative consolation
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Last year – well, last month – I saw a thread on Twitter of “ten things that have brought a smile to my face in 2020”. I was going to copy t...
Sunday, 6 December 2020
A not-normal year, and what to put in your Christmas cards
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I’ve started writing my Christmas cards and some of them normally have letters in them. And I’m wondering: what can you say about this not-n...
Tuesday, 8 September 2020
Things I’ve learnt from lockdown
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It’s late September and I really should be back at school… well, it’s early September, and I’ve got nowhere to go. But I’ve been away, and...
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