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September '24: Blank Space
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September '24: Blank Space

Term time

It’s back to school season, so this month’s podcast is

reading her piece about the experience of sending your children away to become adults (allegedly).

Blank space

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October 14, 2023
Blank space

It’s been an odd couple of weeks, waving my youngest child off to university and finding myself with an empty nest. (Tobias has taken to saying the family home is like a seaside town in winter: ‘all of the infrastructure and half of the people’.) Given that I’ve been feeling a little out of sorts (if I gave birth to you, don’t read this bit: ABANDONED, …

Our theme music is Otra vez by friend of the show S F Gallardo, who you can find on Spotify and Bandcamp

Related essays from September 2024 include:

The Friend in the Corner

The Young Ones

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September 21, 2024
The Young Ones

Friend in the Corner: The Young Ones (1982—84)

The trouble with good girls

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September 14, 2024
The trouble with good girls

Nobody wants to be called a ‘good girl’; it is, after all, something you say to dogs. It implies that you are ‘sufficient’, or ‘OK’, or ‘fine’; you are working as advertised. The acknowledged traits of a good girl are those that benefit the people with whom she interacts: reliability, an even temper, an awareness of the rules. Her worst traits, meanwhil…

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