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Dougald Hine
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Author of At Work in the Ruins. Co-founder of Dark Mountain and a school called HOME. Mostly on Substack these days – https://dougald.substack.com/ – so out of practice at writing short bios and messages. https://linktr.ee/atworkintheruins
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I told this story in yesterday’s Substack essay – and my dad turned up in the comments to confirm that it is true and that he still has the book.

The lesson here is: NEVER DOUBT YOUR MUM!

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According to my mum, my dad is the only person in the world who ever taught himself to drive by reading a book. I don’t know that this is true, or that she’d stand by the claim now I’ve gone and put it in writing; it has that quality of loving exaggeration tinged with exasperation which I recognise as part of the story-cloth from which long-haul partnerships are made.
October 18, 2024 at 7:33 AM