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One more time with feeling. (opens the original)
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The Long Road Home (opens the original)
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This is a very short post compared to our usual lengthy ramblings. We’re in Pouch Cove, some 20km north of St John’s, on a writer’s residency, working on our book (yes, book!) and hatching plans for our long road home.First, the lumpsWhen we arrived in Manhattan at the end of June, regular readers will remember that I found a breast lump. I know some people won’t understand me putting off getting it checked until we arrived in St John’s: there were many discussions and deliberations around that
Still some more to go (opens the original)
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I’m writing this week’s update from the café of a medical care unit on the outskirts of St. John’s. Ellie is in the Urgent Care Clinic awaiting a visit with one of their doctors. Let me tell you how we got here. Blue in the faceEllie gets bouts of foraging madness, and this country suits her. Not only are blueberries everywhere, in vast quantities, but they taste better than anything you can buy in a supermarket. She’s able to fill a ziplock bag within minutes, and she’s very happy about it.<a c
The Great Fast Forward (opens the original)
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Anyone who has been keeping abreast of these week-by-week missives will have noticed that a lag of several weeks has developed between our Substack posts and where we actually are in the world. It’s time to catch up. We’re going to hit fast forward. That’s not because our time in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and our early days in Newfoundland have not been awesomely beautiful, challenging at times and peppered with interesting characters and places. It is because, having taken the ferry to Newfoun
Highway Moosical (opens the original)
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“Enough with the warning signs already! When are we going to see an actual moose?” I shouted at a road sign with a very well rendered, large, antlered, two-toed ungulate profile on it. We were on Highway 201 in Northwest Maine, passing through some beautiful mountain woodland that regularly gave way to picture-perfect wild lakes and ponds. It looked like wildest nature was thumbing its nose at the Chelsea Flower show. This is the most marvellous moosie and moist moorland you ever did see.We were
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