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UrbanFantasy MusicBiz novel Comeback: http://comeba.co.uk
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I realise it was a truncated Avocado!
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Oh. OH!
This is like Ocado all over again.
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I suspect this was the basement bedsit my parents lived in when I was born? I remember my mum mentioned a cat that used to visit. A pattern set for the rest of my life!
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Also I constantly question myself if I notice my thoughts are too negative. I try to nip self-pity in the bud as well as "blaming others". Hopefully this means I can reprogramme myself to be a better person.
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The repeated misinformation from the MPs themselves doesn’t help, and many of the general public doesn’t really know what PIP is or why it’s essential for us, whether we’re in or out of work (again it’s not means tested so you can have it either way).
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Yes, WFH is win-win for employer-employee. They both save money and productivity goes up. This return to the office drive is being driven by office landlords.
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#Oldstagram
December 2023.
Hastings
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Also one of the earliest pictures of me I could find has a cat in it.
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Plus it just goes to show that the relationship between people and cats hasn't changed in a century.
Then again did it ever really change?
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In fact it’s starting to feel as if we’re being governed by conspiracy theorists.
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(Which probably inspired the sequence in my novel Comeback where a tube station escalator leads into the afterlife.)
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The odd thing about the trip to Ongar was that it felt like a tube train running through the countryside as if something very strange was happening. In retrospect it reminds me of the John Wyndham short story “Confidence Trick” where a tube train runs to Hell.
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Yes, same!
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Another advantage of this is that flies seem to be able to just fly out again easily.
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My earliest TV memory too! Used to be shown on a loop, and as I was frightened of the skeleton the “Ich bien der Kicker” frog and music following it would make me tense up…
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#Oldstagram
November 2023.
Hastings
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Absolutely. Sounds like the same kind of nonsense as the "lacking in empathy" myth, which persists despite the fact autistic people are more likely to be hyper-empathic.
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Honestly, my subconscious is like a bloody toddler.
The exercise will do me good AND be out of the way very shortly. Surely delayed gratification is something you're supposed to learn when your age is in single figures?
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I can finish the weights afterwards! It says. I never give in because I'm sure it would then try to leverage the Doorway Effect to make me forget I was doing my weights.
And yet strangely, once I finish exercising, the desperate urge to urinate has gone. Well of course it fucking has.
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I was lucky in that my parents didn't smoke and usually said where we were going.
(On the other hand I often got motion sickness and the travel sweets tasted of headaches.)
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Then of course I had to do vacuuming to clean up after the drilling. It’s a never ending cycle of noise.
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Oh and drilling. (Just remembered that because I had to do some drilling.)
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Of course if this were to happen these days, you can be sure that:
1. You'd only get three week's pay for October
2. Landlords would charge a full month's rent for October