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Sometimes you just don’t feel like talking to the world. Which is when youtube comes in handy. Excuse me if you’ve seen this before, but for those of you who haven’t — here’s a bucketful of cheer. We No Speak Americano
God works in mysterious ways.
First, He (or She) starts getting you used to the idea by turning down the sunshine. Turning it off, pretty much. Then adds lots of rain, so that you want to huddle indoors and wear actual cozy sweaters, some of which you have to go out and buy (yay!). Then He adds wind, and socks. [...]
Downward Facing Dog
My dogs are faster than I am. They can jump higher. They’re more flexible, have better posture and are (much) less picky eaters. They spend less money on clothes, throw fantastic shapes when they sleep, are excellent listeners, and don’t whine except when there’s a fox in the garden. They’re almost relentlessly cheerful, except when [...]
I heart texts.
I hate the telephone, I really do. It always rings at the wrong time and my daughter mixes the handsets up with the TV remotes so I can never find the buggers. Plus, I have the attention span of a flea, with a nasty tendency to do something else while talking on the phone (the [...]
Just finished. Just starting.
The thing about writing a book is that it’s pretty relentless. When you’re pretending to talk to people, you’re writing; when you’re walking the dog, you’re writing; when you’re wasting time on Facebook, you’re still writing. The comedian Ade Edmondson said that the exhausting thing about being a comic is that you can’t watch a [...]
What is a voice?
My husband is mentoring a teenage boy who wants to be an artist. He’s been taking him to exhibitions and listening to his ideas, and the other day I said, “But have you explained to him what being an artist means?” “Well,” he replied, “not really….you see, it’s quite complicated….” Hmm. Yes. It is complicated. [...]
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