September 1, 2019
I had a birthday this week and it seems to have come around far too quickly. I probably wrote this very sentence last year but I can’t find the energy to go back and check. Since last year I’ve had a back problem (which autocorrected to “ball problem” before I luckily spotted it with my […]
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August 25, 2019
This week I was returning home from walking the dog and the couple I wrote about recently came around the corner. I heard them long before I saw them as if they’d continued on in a perpetual state of argument since the last time they appeared, him skulking moodily with a cigarette hanging from his […]
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August 18, 2019
I’m having a conversation, by text, with my daughter the day before the A level results are published. Me: What are you doing today? Her: I’m tidying up. I’m stressed about tomorrow and keeping myself distracted. Me: You’ll know soon and then you can look to the future. Her: Yes but not knowing means I […]
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August 11, 2019
It’s a beautiful summers day and I’m looking out of a vast window of the eighth floor of a building. The Thames meanders into the distance past the Palace of Westminster. The London Eye turns slowly on the South Bank and people look like ants crossing the bridge each way, north and south. I imagine […]
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August 4, 2019
A couple are screaming at each other in the street as I’m walking home. He is on the phone and is relaying the conversation to his angry and agitated partner. “What’s she fucking saying?” she yells at him. He pulls the phone away from her as she lurches forward to grab it while he yells […]
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