life admin.

new year, who you?

I can’t remember the last time I could breathe. Breathe. The simplest necessity of life. Yes, I took in oxygen for the purpose of, well, not dying, but not to live. I just needed enough air to get me through. After a tumultuous 2021, I had high hopes for what 2022 was going to bring…
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smoke & mirrors.

I’m a runner. Very much not of the athletic kind, wine run maybe? When things get hard or overwhelming, I struggle to compartmentalise and rationalise things in my mind. It can all be too much. I’ve mentioned before I feel things deeply – A blessing and a curse, a great and a not so great…
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the lost years.

The last two and a half years have given more to the authors of history books than it has to the writers of diaries. Decades from now scholars will have a wealth of material for their accounts of this pivotal time, but when the people who lived through it look back on the timelines of…
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write a blog.

Write a blog they say, I’d read it. OK I’ll write a blog then, this must bemy 75th attempt, surely it can’t be that difficult. But this time I google ‘Howto write a blog?” 1. Find your “big idea” – I rarely have ‘big’ ideas 2. Research Your genre – Firstly, I hardly know what…
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