If your life is unbearable, what do you wish for? Rewrite of something posted in response to an IP nine years ago. Old IPs never die, they just get much needed edits...
I knew what Ben had been thinking. He was thinking it was his job now, his inheritance. I hadn’t gone near the vegetable garden after the night I saw Mum.
I become unbearably smug when I'm in unfamiliar territory with my offspring and they're pissing about with map things on their phones and getting very confused and saying 'just a minute...', and I just ask someone the way. On the other hand, it...
You've really captured both the frantic scrabbling and the exhaustion that characterises so much of what's around us now. I can't remember the exact details, but I think our brains have evolved to deal with only a certain amount of information (...
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I become unbearably smug when
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I become unbearably smug when I'm in unfamiliar territory with my offspring and they're pissing about with map things on their phones and getting very confused and saying 'just a minute...', and I just ask someone the way. On the other hand, it...
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You've really captured both
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You've really captured both the frantic scrabbling and the exhaustion that characterises so much of what's around us now. I can't remember the exact details, but I think our brains have evolved to deal with only a certain amount of information (...
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