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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I stenoed my chapter on cameras this morning, knowing I only had time for either the blog or the chapter before work, and took the photo on my way to work. I knew I wouldn’t get both written before work, even though I didn’t have to leave home until 10 am. In the photo, which
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Mix tapes. I think everyone who has ever made or received a mix tape will have happy memories of them. Having both made and received mix tapes, however great and quick and easy a modern digital playlist is, the digital version will never hold the magic of a cassette tape with varied-quality recordings, the occasional
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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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