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Oblivion

There is no return
You will be plunged into a deep, black hole
Prepare for take-off.
I went to Alton Towers today, managed to ride all the rides and get wind burn from the speed! On Oblivion, as you are loading there is a kind of monologue trying to scare you and I wish that I wrote it [...]

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(and the only reason I’m writing this is because I have no ideas for a fathers’ day card!)
All week I’ve wanted to write, but I’ve either not had time or when I’ve had time I’ve not felt like doing anything. But now I have, now I am home. Straight out of student land and into [...]

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Hometown Glory

Being home is weird, people you vaguely recognise from years past and you can’t go out without seeing at least one person you know; primary school, high school or college, they’re all there. At Easter I went out with some friends from college and outside the club some of the twits from high school who [...]

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Home?

I close both locks below the window.
I close both blinds and turn away.
Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple.
Sometimes goodbye’s the only way.
And the sun will set for you,
The sun will set for you.
And the shadow of the day,
Will embrace the world in grey,
And the sun will set for you.
Pink cards and flowers on your window,
Your friends [...]

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I’ve been here before. My feet drag along the path I’ve walked before, not once, not twice but many more times than that. The path to hell, the unpredictable one, the unsafe one; the one that is the same every single bloody time I go down it. I know how it starts, I know how [...]

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I am who I am

I am who I am.
I am the daughter who shouts loudest, laughs loudest, is totally unrestrained and is always jumping around. It doesn’t matter who, why when or what, chez moi I’m always jumping and shouting. This morning I realised I don’t think I’ve ever heard my sister shout or jump around in the house; [...]

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5 kgs. 5 weeks. How the hell did I miss the fact that 5kgs of me have gone floating off into the Great Blue Yonder? I should be happy. 4 months ago, I was hungrily dreaming about losing weight and being under 8st, but, I’m not delighted, I’m devastated. I see this as a further [...]

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A friend’s party and family do has driven me to return to Manchester and despite my worries, things are touchwood okay. In fact, I have a strange yearning to be back in Birmingham, something I never thought would happen! The silence, however is slightly uncomfortable because in halls there is always something going on! The [...]

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