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    New Phase: Part Three of Three

    I have been in my perfect cottage for almost 2 years now. I am still slowly getting things how I want them which is unusual for me. In the past, everything would have been unpacked and put away before bed…

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    New Phase: Part Two of Three

    I spent a lovely year sharing Sally and Emilys home, and life. Sally is a highly qualified, and experienced, nurse and between Sally and Rosie, who could always be found lying outside my bedroom door on any day I was…

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    New Phase: Part One of Three

    It has been a tough couple of years … as may have been made obvious by the lack of posts. The Nottington to Nottingham move lasted 3 months. The friend I moved in with, although the gesture was well meant,…

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    Weymouth Calendar Girls

    Im March last year my friend and dear landlady for the last 9 months, decided to top the makeup less selfies by offfering to do a topless one if someone sponsored her. Myself and many of her friends offered to…

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    Nottingham or (go) bust!

    I have moved! It all happened so fast which is unusual for me  – since I’ve been ill the norm is that nothing happens at all no matter how hard I try. A friend of 16 years who has been…

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    Summer of Fun

    As every day goes by im getting stronger and stronger. My lodger, who moved in a couple of days after my abusive ex husband moved out, says he wishes he’d taken a video of how i was 9 months ago…

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    Fiona Smith

    I don’t know what to say. I really feel for Fiona Smith, the 31-year-old ME sufferer who so sadly committed suicide recently; her parents, who must be feeling completely helpless and may be even thinking that they failed her in…

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    On the road again!

    It’s been a while since I blogged but I have reasons for this: a) I ended a physically and mentally abusive relationship which had made me very ill for a long time and it’s taken a while to get my…