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The Friends We Find Through Letters (opens the original)
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A parcel arrived for me this week from a woman I have never met.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1941" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!f3X_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.
The Things We Keep Putting Off (opens the original)
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Some things in life are remarkably easy to get done. The washing gets done because eventually somebody runs out of socks. Dinner gets made because people insist on eating every single night. Bills have dates printed on them, appointments send reminders, parcels need posting, messages need answering, and the dogs will make their requirements very clear if breakfast is running late.Then there are the other things. The things we want to do. Read the book beside the bed. Write something. Finish the
The Simple Satisfaction of Baking at Home (opens the original)
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The Simple Satisfaction of Baking at HomeThere has been a lot of baking happening in my kitchen this week. I’ve made white bread, sourdough bread, sourdough discard chocolate chip muffins and, possibly the winner of them all, a batch of chocolate brownies also made with sourdough discard. Then there was the banana bread, but that isn’t really a this week thing. Banana bread has been coming out of my oven every week for about two years now.My husband takes a packed lunch to work every day, and it
Why Old Things Feel Different (opens the original)
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I spent part of the weekend going through boxes in the garage. They have been there for a long time, filled mostly with Mum’s things, packed away and waiting for someone to eventually decide what should happen to them. There is no great system to any of it. You open one box and find something completely ordinary, open another and discover something you had forgotten existed.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rQgW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_prog
A Place to Keep the Things I Don’t Want to Forget (opens the original)
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I have always been a notebook person.I love the possibility of a new notebook almost as much as I love actually writing in one. The untouched pages, the good paper, the choosing of a pen. There is something about putting thoughts down by hand that feels different from adding another note to my phone or saving another post that I will probably never look at again.But recently, I’ve been thinking about a different kind of notebook.A commonplace book.It is an old idea, although perhaps one that fee
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