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Tag Archives: Books
“Bile”
Some flash fiction for you. Warning: do not eat while reading. I wanted that dress. I mean, brick through the pvc window; alarm goes off; blood on shattered glass, and hands, and frock; dress itself proper shredded as I drag … Continue reading
The Art & Practice of Being Normal
“Hide, hide, the cow’s outside!” “I ain’t afraid of no cow.” – final lines to a child’s joke, circa 1960s I’m paid to be normal: compassionate, encouraging, yet normal. Because I work in mental health, and it doesn’t do for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Bipolar, mental health, Nostalgia
Tagged accents, bipolar, Books, BtVS, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Craig Hallam, eccentricity, fairness, Gerald C Dalek, high school, mental health, normality, peanut butter and jelly boat, school, Steampunk, vampires, work
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Just Another Book Porn Wednesday
” Books are a uniquely portable magic” – Stephen King If you’re reading this because you’re hoping for smut, you’re out of luck. Book porn is about beautiful bindings, not bodacious boobies. Bindings! Original dust jackets! Gilt-edged pages! Art work! … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Poetry, Writing
Tagged A Yorkshireman in Ohio, badgers, book porn, Books, bookshops, cosplay, Doctor Who, John Greenleaf Whittier, Longfellow, retro, Rewind, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Jones, Sherlock Jones and the Geek Interventionist, Stephen King, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Thurber, Tom Brown, Turn the Page, vintage
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Books v Kebab Boxes
I was quite glad I hoovered the carpet, the day before we had three paramedics in our bedroom. They weren’t there for any kind of hi-jinks: my idea of a good time doesn’t involve having three ECGs in the course … Continue reading
Posted in Bipolar, Book It!, Books, mental health, Uncategorized
Tagged 111, ambulance, anxiety, Books, breakfast, cats, depression, ECG, heart attack, hospital, kebabs, laundry, Mindfulness, NHS, NHS Direct, Obamacare, paramedics, reading, socialised medicine
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On the Naming – & Reading – of Cats
“The naming of cats is a difficult matter …” – TS Eliot This is Al, aka The Cat Who Came to Dinner. So inevitably, today’s song is this one. No cat references, but lots of Al ones. I love most … Continue reading
Posted in cats, List, Writing
Tagged A Yorkshireman in Ohio, Book It!, Books, cats, Close Encounters of the Furred Kind, fangirl, It's Like This Cat, names, Paul Gallico, Paul Simon, pets, reading, Robert A Heinlein, The Door into Summer, The Good the Bad and the Furry, The Silent Miaow, The Snow Goose, Tom Cox, top cat books, TS Eliot, Why Cats Paint
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