Chapter 21, the first chapter of my 20s, my rose-tinted (probably) golden decade. I can’t think of a “patch” that I know represents me at 20 years old, but I know I was 21 when I received “Good Housekeeping Cookery Book: The cook’s classic companion” because the book was a 21st birthday gift from my […]
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It’s far too hot to do anything of note so any movement is an achievement. I’ve set the bar low today. However, I went out early for coffee and a walk, (through the park where the flower photo was taken) to allow myself to rant about my first-hand experience of the humidity, lack of air
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I have moved furniture around, tried and failed to repair my coffee maker (but impressed by how much I assembled and reassembled), met a friend for a drink, been out with Chris for coffee, done two washes … it’s now 5.25pm and neither my blog, my chapter or work for my job tomorrow have been
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I stenoed chapter 18 more than 12 hours ago. I got up and finished writing the chapter before I even had the time to congratulate myself on my brilliance. Chapter 18’s subject matter, a restaurant, came to me this morning and wasn’t one of the original “patches”. The pile of Indian cookery books being sorted
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I have an ambitious To Do List to get through today, including this post and chapter 16. Chapter 16 is about an old school science book that I used as a diary, “Karina’s Travel Escapades Around Europe with Ruth”. With the exception of five empty pages, the exercise book is full of my fairly small
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It’s grey and drizzly and supposedly summer. I’ve put a wash on, been out for coffee and arranged to meet a friend for lunch, meaning I need/want to finish this post and write my next chapter in an hour and a half. This is entirely do-able but today’s one of those days when it doesn’t
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