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Late Night Poetry #16: Displaced
By Nitish Meena You have a home, a roof, safety. Imagine trekking miles, kilometres, across unfriendly land. Diving into boats, in the secret unknown dark. Later, the sun beating overhead, the sea...
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Monday Night Inspiration: Self Care Week
This week is self-care week in the UK. The Self Care Forum and NHS are hoping to reach as many people as possible to raise awareness of the importance of self-care to physical and mental wellbeing...
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A Chapter from Ashes and Dust
Tonight I’m sharing a chapter from a novel work in progress, which I’ll hopefully be working on once again next month or in January. I haven’t got very far with it yet, just 30,000 plus words, but I...
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Best of 2019 Fiction Reads
The year isn’t over yet and I’ve still got three books to read before I’ve completed my Goodreads Reading Challenge – I’ve aimed for 50 books this year which is more than last year but fewer, probably,...
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Temporary Weather
I’ve read that our feelings are temporary weather, that they fall over us briefly and then move on. Any state that we find ourselves in is finite. In a way, this is comforting. Any kind of difficult...
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Late Night Poetry #18: A Quiet Revolution
By Aziz Acharki on Unsplash Hope is a revolution.It sings with the dawn,in the trees,the autumn gold leaves burnished with the rising sun.Hope is a quiet promise.It whispers in the wind,always...
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Captured Moments
It’s always interesting when you explore places with a camera. Not the usual tourist photos, but looking up, looking down, and seeing things in windows. Experiencing moments that may never come again....
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New Growth
There is optimism in the air. Today I cried a little – tears of relief, a bit of joy – for my friends across the pond. Because it feels as if something has lifted a little. Even if there is plenty of...
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Monday Night Inspiration: Five Films
This has been a difficult year for the film and theatre industries, and earlier this year I only managed to see three films at the cinema – Little Women and Emma with my Mum and sister Sarah, and...
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Spark Found
On Wednesday, I had my fifth session of therapy. It was a good one, I found myself laughing and smiling, and a bubble of happiness carried me through until the end of the day. I felt more alive than...
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