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Tag Archives: quarantine
Why the Masked Singer is the Best Thing You can Watch Right Now
Still January you say? And a particularly cold and rainy Saturday in Lockdown #3000? Lucky we have something to look forward to tonight. Yes, the LWAT Family have fallen hard for the Masked Singer, with the possible exception of the … Continue reading
Let’s Be a Bit More Careful With Other People’s Mental Health
Happy New Year readers! And welcome to the January to end all Januaries. It’s largely cold and dark and we’re all stuck inside once again because of the plague. Truly it’s the most Januaryish month in history. I’m not a … Continue reading
2020 in Review
Oh my, this year has been absolute pants hasn’t it? I couldn’t really think of a way to sum it all up without being horribly depressing so I’ve decided to go right back to the birth of social media and … Continue reading
It’s a Long, Long Time from March to November Part 2
I enjoyed doing my last set of March-November photos so I thought I’d finish off the months. We left Nathan and I enjoying lunch on the edge of lockdown 1. It gets worse before it gets better… Thursday 19th In … Continue reading
The Confidence to Sing
Around 2004, I went on a 6-week course in an arts centre in Islington called “Confidence to Sing”. I revisited that same arts centre last year as it happens…in those BeforeTimes when we could wander about and take in … Continue reading
I’m Calling Time on Parental Guilt
Every parent knows about parental guilt. It’s handed out in the postnatal ward, along with the Bounty pack. It consumes you when they’re a newborn, hits your last nerve during the toddler-antics phase and reaches previously undiscovered depths as … Continue reading
More Food Blogging…Still Not Going Well
You can tell that lockdown fever is really starting to get to me when I agree to activities that Eva’s organised. True, we’re not that locked down any more but a quick look through my Google location history for last … Continue reading
Life in Greyscale
I’ve had this post in mind for a while but I didn’t want to muddle my clumsy colour metaphor with any of the important discussions going on around race…but thoughts don’t always stay peacefully in my mind without being written … Continue reading
The Spaces In Between
It’s the spaces I miss. You’d think that in lockdown, we would have all the space and time we could ever want but, although we have time, space is a precious commodity, both mental and physical. Our lives used to … Continue reading