In which I wonder who I even am

In which I see Louise Reay's Eraserhead at Tuxedo Cat's Broadcast Bar

In which I see Molly Taylor's Love Letters to the Public Transport System.

In which we watch John Hinton's Origin of Species from his Scientrilogy (highly recommended)

In which we are glad to be dry.

In which we are squooshed.

In which I am reminded that my body knows more about grief than my mind does.

In which my book is launched

In which The Mister and I fail to see eye-to-eye over the colour purple.

In which I discover that things are going okay

In which Leonard Cohen has the last word

In which I begin again

In which all that is robust is fragile too

In which there are cigarettes

In which I am not the adventurer I think I am

In which I am, once again, a sucker for an accent

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