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Freckled Fate: June 2012

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Equal marriage, maybe. Recently I wrote to my MP - first on Twitter, then at his request, by email - to ask his position on equal marriage. Below is the text of my original email, and then his response – which was, to say the very least, disappointing in its lack of conviction. Richard Harrington, MP for Watford. Further to our brief conversation on Twitter I am writing as one of your constituents to find out more about your position on the subject of equal marriage. 8216;Marriage’ has been redefin...

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Freckled Fate: Nobody asks for it

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Nobody asks for it. Like everyone else, I remember the moment very clearly. I was on MSN at work and the guy I was chatting to said “just heard a plane went into the World Trade Center? 8221; I imagined a light aircraft. I didn't imagine what followed. A co-worker asked me “are you ok? Rdquo; I slowly nodded. Tears standing unshed in my eyes. Stomach tied up in a tight knot. Trying to take it in. Of this attack, the unprecedented scale of it, was something nobody in her right mind could ever have imagined.

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Freckled Fate: July 2011

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You're great, but I'm, um, just refreshing the, er, page. When I saw the article saying that online dating leaves middle-aged women in the 'wilderness'. I'm a veteran of online dating. I've been trying it off and on since I first divorced in my early 30s (ie, a long. Time ago). And I've been single for most of the time since then. Internet dating now – when I'm in my 40s, and when internet dating is much more mainstream – is a very different experience. This left me with two types of men: the younger men...

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Freckled Fate: Can you pay my bills?

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Can you pay my bills? Pay your own bills, ladies. Ah yes, as Destiny's Child once sang… can you pay my bills? I'm guessing that Beyonce and co don't have too many problems paying bills these days but I've had problems, myself. A few years ago I found myself out of work for the – I think it was (they all blur into one) – 4. Of course, every penny counts, and it helped me from starving to death. But what about my mortgage? My gas and electricity bills? 4 January 2012 at 09:14. I realy like thise post.

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Freckled Fate: May 2011

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The City Mouse and the Country Mouse. When I was a child, one of the stories of which I was fond was Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse. A take on the Aesop fable about the City Mouse and the Town Mouse. In this story, a country mouse samples the high life of a city mouse, and the city mouse visits the country mouse to sample his more humble life. In the end, each decides he prefers his own life. Hellip;but that's a rant for another time). What do you MEAN, ‘no taxis’? You have to drive in th...

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Freckled Fate: Don't call me. I won't call you. Probably.

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Don't call me. I won't call you. Probably. SOMEONE HAD BETTER BE DEAD. I'm really not one for the telephone. I know. Women are supposed to spend all their time gassing on the phone, right? Yapping away with friends they've only just seen ("What do you talk about? Stereotypical men in the lives of these stereotypical women ask). Passing idle gossip. Talking about…I don't know – cupcakes? Trying to sell me a new kitchen or insurance. Or kitchen insurance. Yeah Good. ( repeat for 30 minutes. If the phone ri...

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Freckled Fate: Dry Kindling

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I'm not what you'd call an early adopter of new technology and gadgets. CD players, DVD players, MP3 players, smartphones…whatever the gadget, I get one (what seems like) years after everyone's started talking about them, and usually right before something newer, faster and sleeker comes onto the market to replace it. I was reluctant to join Facebook, then got addicted; then I was reluctant to join Twitter, and got addicted to that too. I get there, eventually. I'm not afraid. Just a bit slow. One of the...

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Freckled Fate: April 2011

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Twists in the road. Lsquo;Life,’ as the old cliché goes, ‘is what happens when you're making other plans’. Clichés are clichés for a reason I suppose. When I was in freshman year of high school (aged 14–15) we did a project called ‘Who Am I? Rsquo;. I compiled a book documenting my past, my present and what I thought my future would be – right through to an imagined obituary. As I got older, I still imagined marriage and family, though knew I'd have to have a career as…something or other. I ab...Rsquo; p...

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Freckled Fate: Running like the wind (or rather, a gentle breeze)

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Running like the wind (or rather, a gentle breeze). It's funny because it's true. Last November, Charlie wrote a column entitled I have been murdered and replaced with a suspicious facsimile. In running shoes. He goes on to explain how, with the help of an app for his smartphone, he's started to take up running. And enjoying it. Hating himself for enjoying it, because it goes against type, but enjoying it. A few days later, I donned my ancient trainers, a pair of sweatpants and a fleece, and headed out.