HeyJaredThe Odde Chronicle
illustrated musings on my strange ill life with my two partners and our animals in a medieval house in england
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when the universe presents kittens (opens the original)
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Autoimmune disease can be a slog, and this week was an extra sloggy slog in a month of pre-existing slog. My double ear infection kicked off yet another cortisol crash without having really given me a chance to recover from the last one, and I was momentarily transported back to my season of lying flat. I hence spent much of this week groaning and eating crackers, but now with added earache and a punishing antibiotic-induced fasting schedule. It was on the evening of the third day of this, at a
also, badgers (opens the original)
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I write this week’s chronicle from the downstairs bed/sofa which I currently share with the hellhound (sleeping soundly without an ounce of guilt for its crimes), Dandelion (piously reading the Bible1), and, most likely, at least one spider. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vSIh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe4dd77e0-8457-4340-8631-dd3a3842b0a0_2048x2048.png
old gods in the garden (opens the original)
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the overgrown night (opens the original)
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(psst, if this email truncates, you can read it in your browser). Okay fine, I’ll keep writing on substack.1I just got back from Scotland, having spent a week in Glen Clova. The air there feels thin, only a flimsy shred separating you from the stars, as if the earth and the heavens are all caught in the bowl of the hills together. The silence of a Highland night is thin too, a fragile void of sound. It was quite the contrast to arrive back at Oddements Pightle, where the night is thick, overgrow
emotional hives and psychological sneezing (opens the original)
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Odde readers, I must apologise. It has been an age. This is my third attempt at my grand1 comeback, and each draft seems to get more fall-aparty than the last, as if my thoughts on this subject are becoming progressively over-kneaded. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lVUa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F20f3624b-0742-4b67-97a2-8419ecb0d22c_1500x1618.jpeg" targ
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