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Abandoned reading: Milk Teeth by Jessica Andrews 📚

Just couldn’t get on with the main character. Or the repetition of certain words - not sure if that was intentional or I just became fixated on it.

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Bank Holiday fun helping a friend decorate her flat before selling. We were here 8 years ago decorating before she moved in too

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Finished reading: The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers 📚

Continuing to work my way through everything Benjamin Myers writes.

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it’s a sign

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Played a pre-season friendly today - first time I’ve picked up a hockey stick in 5 months. I didn’t embarrass myself and it didn’t break me 🏑

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back to work tomorrow, head still up the coast

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First day back from holiday and it has completely run away from me. Don’t feel like I’ve stopped and yet have little to show for it 😏

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had to collect my prints before they were fully dry so we’re not eating at the table the rest of the weekend 😆

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Albion press I used today to finish my submission for the 20:20 print exchange - 2020printexchange.com/

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a puppy called Poppy

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Holiday update: I have reached the “what day is it?” stage.

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English country garden

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got a week off work and no plans. Bliss.

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I took up tag rugby this summer aged 40. It’s the most fun I’ve had playing sport in a long time, even tonight in torrential rain

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earlier this week, on the hottest day, my wife decided to make Christmas cakes 🥵

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out and about for meetings across town

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Women’s hockey QF here we go. Hoping for a miracle🤞

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While watching the kayak cross finals on BBC I realised the only thing I’ve been missing from their coverage (through watching on Discovery+) is Hazel Irvine.

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a walk before work

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Finished reading: The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson 📚

Reading, or watching, anything related to real crimes always feels voyeuristic to me. While it is about a murder and subsequent trial, this book is more about the author whose writing is raw and honest, sometimes brutally so.