It is done.

Yeh, I think funeral is the strongest setting - it could also easily provide a setting for horror, humour, family drama… at a push romance 🤔😬😳 hey, each to their own!

Day 2: the crazed look of a woman whose fingers are raw from two days of sanding, caulking and prepping!

This has sat on my TBR shelf for nearly seven years and I could never persuade myself to start it. But after more than one person recommended it over the years I finally took the plunge. I’m not sure I enjoyed it… and yet…

If you liked any of the following, you need to read In Memoriam by Alice Winn.
- Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow
- Song of Achilles
- the film 1917
- One Day (the book or Netflix adaptation, I’ll accept either - but never the film)

The novel focuses on best friends Gaunt and Ellwood whose relationship will go down in modern literature history with the likes Dex & Em, Sadie & Sam, Tully & Kate. ❤️

In Memoriam traces the lives of a group of friends from a boys’ private boarding school from 1913 through the horrors of WWI as each one signs up and sees their lives and their souls warped and scarred forever.

Every wall was yellow. In the front room the paper was peeling in an attempt to escape the damp crawling out from underneath.
On the table a set of dentures drowned in a cloudy glass.
How long had they been there?
What have I done?
I fought ideas of another woman’s room with yellow wallpaper…

2/2 it’s actually been really lovely to see her return to more simple endeavours and take great pleasure in them too. 🙂

1/2 My 10yo loves art but the increasing budget requirements for her hobby was bonkers - acrylic paints, fluid art, sewing, embroidery supplies! So last year I said I would pay X towards things but the rest had to come out of her pocket money…

Helloooo! I feel like it’s my first day at school - don’t know anyone, don’t know my way around, the lingo or what’s cool. 😬