I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Elen Caldecott
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When taking drugs lands you in the emergency room, but this time it's to get the foreign object out of your nostril.
Yesterday it was scaffolding, today it is something called knicks. Waking up to American bluesky makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
Coming up on the 18th June. Please come say hello:
The Bath Spa University Creative Writing Research Centre is proud to present 'In Conversation with Sunny Singh.'
Do come if you can
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Honestly, this is where the current transphobia leads. Suddenly everyone gets comfortable treating gayness as tragic like it’s 1982. These are connected. You’re next.
An interesting new development in the South Bristol flag front. Is the light blue one the World Cup? I'd be quite happy if all the lampposts eventually become Maypoles.
Also, there is no breeze today. Phew!
I swear all these videos could moonlight as autism diagnosis tests. 'Does the phrase "My door is always open" indicate a wellbeing-oriented workplace?' Genuinely not a clue.
On YouTube. Project Hail Mary chat.
American reactors: dropping ten degrees doesn't sound that bad.
All of the rest of the world: ten degrees? Bloody hell.
I was with the rest of the world, assuming Celsius. But if Andy Weir is American, maybe it is just a shade chillier??
USA to copy Denmark's vaccine policy.
Without also replicating European universal health care, unlimited sick days, generous family leave to care for ill children, and cultural norms that make it unseemly to turn up to work sick.
Slow hand clap.
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Doing work mandatory training videos.
Was totally ace-ing it, until I got trapped between 'is this an example of poor customer service' or - my reading of the skit - 'is this just an autistic woman not masking at work' and spiralling indecisively over which button to press. I am overthinking this.
Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.
