Two days of work, a beach day, a tax return and a funeral; I am finally ready for chapter 13. As chapter 11, Brut aftershave, was kind of based around my dad, 12, lemon layer pudding, on my mum, 13 is going to be on the kind of friends that children don’t really have anymore, […]
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Turned out I had a lot more to say about Brut and perfumes than I expected in chapter 11. As I rarely wear perfume and have minimal interest in perfumes, beyond some stories around my dad’s Brut aftershave I hadn’t thought there was a huge amount to say pertinent to memories based around perfume. I
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I spent a long time choosing the ten patches/memory triggers for each of my decades. Choosing the 11-20 years came the quickest and, as I look at the list now, half the items are from the later years of my second decade and are far less general and seem more exciting and easier to recall
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The temptation to complete chapter 10, a quarter-ish of my story, is niggling me and I may otherwise not be able to steno another chapter until Tuesday. This morning, I did as I said I would, I wrote the blog, went for coffee and to buy bread, then made half a picnic, drove out to
Day 8 again. Writing chapter 10 of 40 patches Read More »
Yesterday’s Brighton beach chapter was all over the place, a flurry of memories and associations. It certainly convinced me that Brighton definitely deserved a place as one of my 40 patches, the patches being in the quilt-sense of things (or places or food, though I’m trying to focus more on objects), pieces that tell my
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“The new bacon” is either a lure or a controversy, depending on your dietary perspective. In my world, nothing can replace bacon. However, at a lovely cafe in the Vauban area of Marseille, “CW”, Carlotta With, I ordered avocado on toast (yes, that is smooth, pureed avocado and it was amazing) with “bacon coconut”. I
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