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Reunited and It Feels So Good
After bombing back over to Sussex for dinner with Mumma L-M’s best friends on Thursday night and the Peters-Newman wedding on Friday, I then had to tear myself away from a very sunny beer... Continue reading »
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Cathedral City aka Wedding 2/9
I wish I could say it was a beautiful day for a white wedding but unfortunately the British weather got the best of it and it mizzled all day long. This didn’t dampen spirits though as we sat... Continue reading »
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Fishing Etiquette
A friend from work and I have both signed up to a certain dating website based around the old adage that should a man not realise how fuckawesome you are, that there are plenty of fish in the sea.... Continue reading »
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Great Mysteries of our Time
I lay in bed last night thinking about some of the silly things that have always puzzled me. The things where my brain starts to try and think about the workings behind them but instead gives up and... Continue reading »
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Sunday Sound Off: Sex, Lies and Rinsing Guys
I knew this programme was going to get on my wick when the announcer suggested it was “girl power”, oh do fuck off, there’s no girl power in it. For those of you who didn’t... Continue reading »
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443: All About Me
I’ve had to make peace with my past ever since I brought it well out into the open by getting the entire sorry mess tattooed inside my left wrist in three small digits. I’ve always talked... Continue reading »
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Sunday Sound Off: Boozy Woozy Blues
Had a lovely evening last night drinking wine with a friend whilst talking about every conceivable topic in a variety of drinking establishments ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous and yet... Continue reading »
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Wigwam Bam: Thoughts on a Discharge
Yesterday I had my quarterly catch up with my psychiatrist Dr Wigwam, a chance for him to ask me a set of standard questions and assess my answers before metaphorically patting me on the head and... Continue reading »
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My final words…
On the eve of my 30th birthday my darling friend The First Lobster sent me a text message asking what my message to the world was in case I didn’t make it through the night. Scrolling through... Continue reading »
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Cornflake & Loulabella Tie The Knot
After over a decade of waiting for Cornflake’s mysterious knee condition to heal so he could bend it enough to get down on one knee, the main event arrived and we hitched up our wagons and... Continue reading »
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The Dog With Two Dicks.
Since coming off my little white tablets I’ve been trying to work out what are the side effects of coming off, what is just me being me and what is just my mental health being a bit, mental.... Continue reading »
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Monday Morning 5:19
“It’s Monday morning 5:19, and I’m still wondering where she’s been, ‘cos every time I try to call I just get her machine. And now it’s almost six am, and I... Continue reading »
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Smashed Out
A quick update before I seize up like that dead Coptic Pope on his throne (seriously, how are they going to get him in a coffin now he’s been sat in state like that?) and have to be winched off... Continue reading »
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Mother’s Day
Some days are harder than others. Some days I miss you so much it hurts to breathe. Today is one of those days. Continue reading »
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SSR-Bye!
Three thousand, eight hundred and fifteen days ago I started a course of anti-depressants which at the time were touted as a six month helper to get me over the hump of starting university and all... Continue reading »
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Spikes and Heels
Spikes and Heels and abs of steel. That was the internal chant that got me through the abs section of my Total NRG class last night. That and imagining that Bangs was there as my own personal... Continue reading »
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Forgive Me Father…
For I have spinned. Spun? Span? Spooned? Spangled? Whatever, they’re all adjectives for KNACKERED. Tuesday night saw Mermaid and I head to Total NRG, she a consumate professional in the art of... Continue reading »
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Total NR-What The Heck?
“I’m going to my first Total NRG class tonight” said I. “Total what in the what?” said everyone else. The thing is, I wasn’t sure how to answer them because... Continue reading »
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Talonted is Talented
I’m a secret nail art fan even though I’m as cack handed as they come and can just about manage to paint my own nails without going all over the lines. I love the bright colours,... Continue reading »
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It’s Lent, It’s Lent, Let’s all Repent!
What does a woman who has given up shopping, can’t drink alcohol and can’t eat solid food give up for lent? Apart from the will to live that is… This was the question that I was... Continue reading »
