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Sometimes you have to pick a side. I get that. And sometimes it’s easy. Like Ukraine over Russia. Or: literally anyone other than Trump. Mostly we trust our gut to choose a side but sometimes it’s a bit more complex. Picking a side ought to involve listening to all the conflicting arguments and really understanding…
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This could be my shortest post yet… because there aren’t many. There’s one sided chatter my end, and if I’m lucky, the odd aggrieved I dunno, but mostly not even that… I’m not blind to the effects that puberty is having on her. Pesky oestrogen is having a field day, causing utter mayhem and pandemonium. …
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My last post was on optimism. I guess this one kinda follows on from that. Through a combination of much good luck, my work as a nurse then as a midwife, and also from having a (tiny) bit of involvement in the charity sector, I’ve come to a world view that all is not lost…
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I’m an optimistic person. Some might say excessively so but obviously I don’t think that’s possible. Except, perhaps, when I’m overly optimistic about the amount of time it takes to get somewhere. And end up ever so slightly the wrong side of punctual… that does occasionally happen… or underestimate how slow (I find it difficult…
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Full disclosure: I’ve been lucky enough to ski fairly regularly for most of my life, and I know what a jammy git that makes me. But bear with me, if you will; I promise to infotain you about the four stages of skiing. Key stage 1: childhood ski lessons with the French Ski School. Coming…
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I have a project that will forever remain on my to-do list. There’s just no way I’ll ever have time. The priority level will never increase from a nice-to-achieve to a really-needs-to-be-done. Instead it will always be classified as unnecessary-perfection-because-who’s-got-time. So the problem is two-fold: I have too many books (can that ever be a…
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I seem to have acquired a collection of feminist books. From Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir, from Maya Angelou to Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche; from Mary Beard to the wonderful Caitlin Moran; from Naomi Wolf to Kat Banyard. And I realised that all these fabulous ground-breaking feminist women were in fact constantly breaking the same…
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