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Is it ok to be Christmas-selfish?

26th Nov 202127th Nov 2021by inflate16021 Comment

“My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we’re having a change. We’re going to let her in.”Les Dawson It’s creeping up again: that final month of the year when we round up our families like sheep in a pen. Expectations are high as we arrange for mothers…

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The Big Smoke

3rd Nov 2021by inflate16022 Comments

I recently had to complete an exercise as part of my writing course. After imagining there was a fire in my house and thinking about what I would grab, after my son and my cat I would grab this......... It’s probably quite wrong to keep your father in a box, in your shed. But that’s…

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