Having spent the best part of four weeks carefully avoiding the right side of my mouth I am relieved to be sliding down into the horizontal of the dentist’s chair. It wasn’t always like this. As a child, I was terrified of the dentist or, more specifically, Mrs. Brown who, unlike her namesake from the […]
Appy Talk Reprised
“I’ve been thinking about getting a phone that’s just a phone. One you can only make phone calls on,” I tell my daughter. “You never make phone calls. You don’t like the phone,” she says. She’s right. The only thing I hardly ever use my phone for is talking to people on the phone. “Whenever […]
Life Changing Moments
“It’s the anniversary of the day we brought Daisy home today,” my daughter tells me as we’re driving out to take the dogs for a walk. A lot has happened in those four years but I can’t imagine having been through any of it without her. I’ve often thought that Daisy’s sight problems are a […]
The End Of Summer
On an unseasonably autumnal August Bank Holiday I am celebrating my birthday by sitting in the queue at a drive-in McDonalds, determined to have cheap ice cream. My daughter and her boyfriend are in the car in front, and my son and his girlfriend are in front of them. A text comes through from my […]
Down Time
In “How To Do Nothing,” Jenny Odell recalls a performance piece by Finnish artist Pilvi Takala which involved her posing as a marketing trainee at accounting firm Deloitte and doing nothing but sitting at her desk and staring out of the window. None of her “colleagues” knew it was art and became increasingly uncomfortable and […]
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