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28
Dec

the process of reading as unconscious as breathing

I have really struggled with reading in the last six months. This week, I finally tidied up the windowsill next
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28
Dec

to go any distance across rough terrain

I want to talk about these boots. These are the Scarpa Women’s Terra GTX hiking boots. They are what
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28
Dec

the five podcasts I actually listen to

If you had told me back in 2007, when approximately 30 per cent of all my waking hours were spent
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28
Dec

when will we cry in public again?

I haven’t been on a train since early March, so naturally I’ve been daydreaming about public transport a
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28
Dec

I feel a warm little glow of satisfaction

I read that piece in the Observer last weekend about how fear of a miserable, long, dark winter is mostly
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28
Dec

because of all the words I deleted

This is how many words I wrote last week: During the working week 24 — 28 August, I wrote 13,671
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28
Dec

how do you have a minor illness during a pandemic?

I didn’t write to you last Friday as I had planned. I was busy reenacting this scene: I had
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28
Dec

rummaging through all the paper

I feel like I have been taking notes on what I read since I was about 14, and that for
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28
Dec

working from home is great until it isn’t

When I first moved out of London — and don’t worry, this isn’t one of those “why I left
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28
Dec

a brain fizzing combination of accomplishment and virtue

In the twelve days between 26 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, I went to the tip four times. The
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