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Life & Lemons
Finally, a morning with light and blue sky! Yesterday I saw more rain in a day than I did the full three weeks on our “home & away holiday” in South Africa a few weeks ago. I hate to say this, but it is indeed typical British weather. I’ve put the kettle on, waiting for…
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The drive to Belgium
Coffee and the last of my macarons for breakfast this morning as others indulge in hard-earned sleep; the snoring is very telling, the reason I’ve failed to make up for the tiredness from the Belgium drive. It could have been ‘waffles and coffee’, but once you’ve had the famous Belgian delicacy, its beautiful sweetness is…
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‘Help me, please!’
When 5 pm hit, I could feel the sweat on my back and the heat radiating off my body as I walked into the house. I’d completed a strenuous third lap out of four of my day’s shift, an hour walk from home and back. After all these weeks since the start of summer, I’m…
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Month of May
Nothing beats the high from that first cup of coffee in the morning. The old me would’ve had an eye roll moment for every time I’d heard something of that notion on an episode of Friends or Gilmore Girls, ‘people honestly hype coffee up- it doesn’t even taste that good!’ Yet here I am always…
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The Journey
It was on a train journey back to work, staring out the window, that I came to accept happiness was something I did not quite know. Although the views of the country fields and the sheep in the distance made me smile, happiness was a feeling that seemed foreign, at least in my soul.
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My Tunisian sad story
I’ve recently revisited some photographs from my past travels and felt to write a fiction piece based on an actual event that took place a week after I left Sousse. I evidently, am a fortunate one to have left when I did and my heart still goes out to the lives lost & their relatives. My…