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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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Spiders are Bastards | Wanton Piffle
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Exactly what you'd expect. August 23, 2012. WARNING: This post contains evidence of spiders being dicks through the magic of anecdote, and as such may be highly inappropriate for arachnophobic types. I wouldn’t say I’m arachnophobic (in fact I find jumping spiders kinda cute in an ugly kind of way. Lazy person who can’t even be bothered to update a blog that can essentially be about whatever I want it to be about meaning that really I have no excuse. And then this fucking spider runs across my face.
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Exactly what you'd expect. October 24, 2013. Old New Story and Hiatus Reasons. Hello Gosh, hasn’t it been a while? First off, I have a new short story up on the internet. And by new, I mean getting-close-to-a-month-old. It’s a very brief little sci-fi ditty called “Not as we know it”, and can be found here. On 365 Tomorrows. It involves trees. So there’s that, but also I suppose I should explain why this blog has been collecting dust for so long. November 16, 2012. Once again it is Friday for the fourth ...
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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...
