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One of the nicest things in life is home-cooking. And of all the home-cooking there is, Sunday lunch is probably the most special. That time
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For the last ten days, I have shared my space with one, two, at times three men who were attempting to revive my ageing woodwork
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I woke up on Monday morning with a feeling of disquiet that I just can’t shake. I’m angry. I’m sad. I’m confused. I don’t know
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Some years ago, I was considering moving to Haarlem in the Netherlands. High up on the list of reasons why I should was the abundance
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Last night I heard that my best friend had died. She’d been trying to get hold of me all week but my phone wasn’t answering.
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One of the best things about working in Diplomacy (however, tangentially) is that delegates get to wear their national dress for formal dinners. We had
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It’s been a long week and so many things happened to be grateful for. The success of the Gift of the Gab and the money
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It was February 2002. I had just returned from the States and was living in Ireland. It was Six Nations time and Scotland was travelling
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some
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I find myself looking a lot at reflections lately. I know I am prone to minor obsessions but they ususally work themselves out after a
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