February 25, 2024
This isn’t quite what I intended to write this week, but a random comment I made on a post unlocked thoughts in me that only made sense when I wrote them down. Under a photo described as, “The ruined Lidwell Chapel” “What ruined it?” “Time” Many of us are ruined by time. We are ruined […]
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February 18, 2024
An autistic client is talking to me about her anthropomorphism and how she hadn’t realised until quite recently that it’s a common symptom of autism. I think to myself that I hadn’t realised this either until she just told me, and I shoot a shifty glance towards the pot plant I’d been chatting to a […]
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February 4, 2024
This is a reprise of a piece I wrote back in 2017. The lady who lives a few doors down is hurrying out to her car with one of her young children in tow. He, failing to pick up on the apparent need for urgency, has found a stick and is tapping it against the […]
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January 21, 2024
It’s 1996, and I’m in the chip shop buying Friday night’s dinner (Haddock and chips for me, Huss and chips for my wife). Waiting for them to cook my food, I flick through yesterday’s copy of a tabloid newspaper glancing occasionally towards the tiny portable television in the corner with the volume turned down so […]
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January 14, 2024
Pushing the heavy pressure cooker back into place, I marvel momentarily at the metal shelving unit and its insistence on staying fixed to the wall. I don’t have this feeling with everything in the house. I don’t stare in wonder at the ceiling staying up, or the stairs refusing to give way, or even the […]
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