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Reacting to a pandemic
More reports from the UK Government Covid-19 Inquiry today, and lamentable reading too, if you can make it through all 800 pages across two reports released today 2025-11-20. You can find all the reports here. My Own Timeline My elderly parents had already gone into isolation in February. Having lived through the 1957-8 H2N2 Influenza…
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Happy Sophie-Day
Five years ago today, on New Year’s Eve 2019, was the first time that Sophie emerged for a proper night out. Accompanied and supported by my amazing friend Indie, without whom Sophie might never have been more than an idea never realised because of fear and lack of confidence. Fear doesn’t even really convey it;…
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̶B̶l̶a̶c̶k̶ ̶H̶o̶l̶e̶s̶ ̶ Xmas Parties and Revelations
An Xmas meet-up of around 10-15 former colleagues presents both opportunities and worries. All the ladies in the group except two already know about Sophie. Only one of the men though – and that was accidental (see this article) although he was on the list I was planning to tell. That left a substantial number…
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Men! Moisturising Might Just Save Your Life!
Having been nagged into moisturising by my makeup artist, I want to reach out to men generally – even, maybe especially, to those who don’t let their girl-mode out to play. When I put this stuff on my face it feels like it will just sit there. But rub it in and…. it vanishes. I…
Trials & tribulations of my increasingly full-time girl-mode.
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