And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is’. Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country I am happier than I’ve been in a while. This is particularly impressive considering I am in the last...

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September 25, 2021

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Moving house in a broken rental market

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My life in housing went something like this: Live with my parents Live at University in dorms Rent a room from a friend Live with my parent-in-laws Live with my parents Rent a 2 bed house Rent another, cheaper, 2 bed house Rent a studio apartment Rent a room in a house share Live with...

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September 23, 2021

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This is the way the world ends (the world will be just fine)

by Suzie

I recently read N.K. Jemsin’s Broken Earth trilogy*. An epic sci-fi/fantasy, it was gripping and fantastical. One of the points she makes is that apocalypses are happening all the time, somewhere. We talk about climate change (nuclear winter, over-population, etc.) as being the end of the world, but what we really mean is that it...

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September 5, 2021

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Stepping back into time

by Suzie

I recently finished reading Oliver Burkeman’s book Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It*. It is a book that has hit a certain zeitgeist, I came across it on two separate reading lists, not to mention James Todd Rubin wrote an entire blog post about it. What’s interesting is that I that I...

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August 14, 2021

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In gratitude for a lovely Saturday

by Suzie

Today was a beautiful day. The sun was out, there was a gentle breeze, and my spouse and I set ourselves a rather arbitrary quest to go and buy bubble tea, which necessitated us walking some 3 miles down the river into town and then some 3 miles back. People often wonder why I don’t...

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July 31, 2021

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The ‘unprecedented’ year+

by Suzie

I’m back! I realise nobody is following along with this blog anymore — unless you subscribed to it in an RSS reader, in which case, hello! It’s been a strange year (and it isn’t over). Words like ‘unprecedented’ got thrown around a lot at the start, but in all truth it wasn’t really unprecedented. People...

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One year later

by Suzie

It’s been exactly a year and one day since I last posted here. And what a year it’s been! Goodness 2020, you sure decided to throw down the gauntlet, right? There are multiple reasons why I haven’t been posting: the most pertinent is that I’m currently working full-time and completing an MA which is absorbing...

Weekly Reflections #6

by Suzie

Goodness, but life is busy! Trying to balance all the different elements is quite a trick. Somehow we must: Work a job to earn money and, perhaps, if we’re lucky, to experience some kind of fulfilment. Carry out all the maintenance tasks of life, such as laundry, cooking, shopping, washing up, gardening and so forth....

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Weekly Reflections #5

by Suzie

In no particular order: I went for a beautiful long walk along the river yesterday. It was grey, wet, cold and raining when I left. As we went up the road I thought ‘what a stupid idea’. By the time we’d gone twenty minutes up the road, the sun had come up. Thirty minutes up...

Weekly Reflections #4

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Oof, it’s been a while. But that’s life. It always gets in the way of my best intentions somehow. But the important thing is to pick back up where you left off and keep going. In no particular order: I went on holiday. I got to see manatees and thunderstorms and dolphins. The world is...

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