HeyJaredJenny's Folly
Weekly diary on adventures - and misadventures - in self-publishing, gardening, and juggling six grandchildren across two continents.
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Defeating End Times Facism (opens the original)
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Monday, 21st SeptemberDoing the school run for the London contingent. Which also means making their favourite tea - spaghetti bolognaise with real meat as opposed to the quorn I use for the Hebden bunch. I don’t say it out loud, but it just aint the same with quorn. Reckon it’s the fat in the meat that makes it a cut above. An extra treat today is that sister out-law has been up in London visiting an old friend and has carved out time to meet up prior to returning to Cornwalll, so that I can del
Full on War (opens the original)
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I’m doing the school run for the London contingent tomorrow so staying at their house overnight. It’s Substack writing time and I am ensconced at the kitchen table as my son clears up from dinner. All should be well in my world. All is well in my world – but nevertheless, words evade me. At my loud (and possibly slightly theatrical sigh) my son asked me what I was sighing about and I told him I was finding it difficult to write this week, that I had a heavy heart. He asked me why and I told him:
Gothic Novels, Plant Porn & Thelma and Louise (opens the original)
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Monday, 7th SeptemberI’m girding my loins for the arrival of the painter/decorators tomorrow morning and pass the time obsessively combing my hair with my shiny new nit comb. (FYI no nits).Feeling vulnerable and wobbly as not sure if the nasty neighbour will turn up with the decorators. I have arranged for a friend to be here for moral, physical and any other support available which just makes me feel a wimp, until...I get a text message from a director I have worked with off and on since film s
NITS & NEIGHBOURS (opens the original)
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Monday, 31st AugustBank Holiday – spend a totally indulgent day at the gym, in the garden, catching up with life maintenance.Tuesday, 1st SeptemberSome of you loyal and lovely readers may remember that back in December my neighbours’ builders failed to sheet up our party wall following demolition of an old extension, leaving it open to the elements for three Winter weeks and, ‘hey-ho the wind and the rain’, proceeded to infiltrate my walls and electrics because ‘the rain it raineth every day.’Si
The Last Week of Summer (opens the original)
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Monday 31st AugustYou may or may not have noticed that there was no post last night. It wasn’t for lack of thinking about or a gazillion good intentions. Nor was it due to a lack of having anything to tell you about.No. I didn’t write it because I had a heavy heart that translated into heavy hands, too heavy to hit the keyboard last night.It was because last week was the final week of a Summer stuffed with wonderful weeks - so looked forward to, so long in the planning:Sunday, August 23rd – Thur
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