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How self-sufficient are you? Skills check
Food, water, shelter, clothing and hygiene are our basic needs. Some people say “sleep” or “warmth” instead of shelter but I’d argue both are met by a shelter. I mean, even clothing is debatable, especially if you’re a naturist! To be self-sufficient in SHTF or in life as it is at the moment, where we […]
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How to build a tribe on Facebook
Facebook is the most time-intensive platform to master. I successfully grew my author page to 3k likes/follows before I closed that account. Why did I close my Facebook author account? What an admission at the beginning of an article about how to grow an audience on Facebook! Consider the dead donkey dropped (if you don’t […]
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Misadventure: Catching a dog in a spy base
When I was eleven we got a dog. His breed was brown, white and waggly. He looked like a Jack Russell but he was the size of a labrador. And he needed a lot of walking. We lived on a bizarrely-designed council estate which had its front doors at the back and the back doors […]
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I hired a $5 ghostwriter via Fiverr. This is how it went…
Tl;dr: Badly. It went very badly. So I’ve been having a lot of joint issues lately. Worse than usual. I’m in the midst of a flare-up. This usually nixes me being able to write long, well-researched authority posts. So I thought I’d look on Fiverr to see if someone could help me write a couple […]
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Misadventure: Shipwrecked
Where I grew up, there was a brook, which is something a bit bigger than a stream but smaller than a river. The brook was probably the most interesting thing about Cheadle. Its path spanned the town. It meandered through the fields between my concrete council estate and the next estate over (a decidedly upmarket, […]
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Writing prompt challenge: Gate
I was driving home yesterday and saw a red gate amongst dozens of brown ones, and it got me thinking it would make a great story opener. The whole village was abuzz. A new scandal was in progress. This one was more exciting than the time Mrs. Foyle had accidentally hung her knickers to dry […]
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China Glaze Update Day 5
Argh noooo it’s starting to chip! Sad times. I have to reiterate that this was just one layer (medium on the thumb and light on the finger) but there’s a huge chip on my thumb and the big strands of glitter on my finger have come off. So there you have it. 5 days before […]
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Are your customers confused?
I go to a lot of soft play centres. A soft play centre is a place where children can play indoors. My son has a lot of energy so we go out a lot. Recently we went to a soft play I’d been looking forward to trying ever since we were buying our home 18 […]
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