I am meant to be putting things into piles. It’s holiday season – school have shut, families are making plans. I have decided to organise myself by…reading a large novel. This isn’t my usual approach. Normally holiday times come round and I’m prepared, a week in advance, even. This time round, no. Call it late …
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F is for freebie
Hanging out. It’s that fill-the-gap moment when mums wait for their child’s class to be over. Be it sport, be it dance, whatever – it’s what we do. Show up, wait, head home again. I used to write shopping lists. Come up with more to do items, maybe even check a few off. But now …
9 Oct: I was really scared when…
…the latest writing prompt came in. How real was I going to get? I’d already bared my soul this week – aka tried to write a short biography – and now there was more to be done. Here’s the thing. The things that are really scary to us are also hard to put down in …
Interlude one: how much does an item need to be found?
Starting in on the topic of found items, it seems easy. When they drift across your path, that is. When small people come up and press them into your hands. But when the breeze stops blowing, or the child moves off in search of something else, it can be harder. They start to become Looked …
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5 October: the perfect dinner party
I am on the phone to the imaginary agent of Stephen Fry. The agent is sorry, but the imaginary Stephen is booked solid for several months. As a popular person to invite to imaginary perfect dinner parties, I need to understand it is hard for him to make time to come. I try the imaginary …