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Posted on April 10, 2021

Netflix-informed parenting, Prince Philip and my first draft.

I’m writing this a bit late. My husband and I stayed up to collect my son from a cold-sounding meet in his mate’s garden. He wanted to cycle back at…

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Posted on April 3, 2021

Too many bikes, too few words.

Yesterday, the six of us cycled along the prom. The sun was out, people were in t-shirts and there were banners outside the restaurants announcing their terraces would open from…

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Posted on March 27, 2021March 27, 2021

Refuting stereotypes, adopting metaphors and upskilling in graphic design.

I wasn’t happiest, but I was least existentially stressed when I was taking my professional exams as a junior doctor. I had no children at the time so I had…

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Posted on March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

I haven’t done any work on my novel, but…

It turns out my passport expires in 2028. 2018 was the start date, not the expiry. I knew the form I was filling in felt familiar. Our broadband company are…

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Posted on March 14, 2021March 14, 2021

Desks, Mr Evaristo and other difficulties with focus.

Yesterday, in the middle of a meeting, my desk fell off the wall, so I’m breaking a rule and writing this in bed. I’m trying to concentrate while my husband…

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Posted on March 6, 2021

A pop-up bike shop and a spoilt princess of a novel.

My son has turned the kitchen and conservatory into a bike shop. Grateful he’s out of bed and not torturing his teachers online, I haven’t complained. And the children are…

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Posted on December 14, 2020December 15, 2020

Advent 2: Have I magically become good at fast drafting? Certainly I’m no better at multi-tasking.

You know that novel that was brewing? The plan was to outline it so I could get going with a first draft in the New Year. A week later, the…

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Posted on November 8, 2020

Nanowrimo Week 1: I probably can’t afford literary abandon.

I’m trying to find excuses for the organisational disaster this week feels that don’t involve writing and National novel writing month. National Novel Writing Month shouldn’t cause me too many…

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