ness kingsley: writes, reads, rants & rambles
Let me tell you about Spring - it's brilliant. Bloomin' brilliant. It feels like I've stirred awake and blinked away a soul-hibernation. (Though, you know what? I think I need to have an internet dive on hibernation. Mainly, I equate it with bears but I'd like to know the dynamics of it.) Our lockdown is… Continue reading i am a metaphor queen, and other interesting factoids
It's on my calendar in big, bold letters scrawled across each week: X Character Must Die it says for one week. Dark Knight of the Soul is across another. (The 'k' is crossed out. I am very good at spelling.)
When I was a mere youngling, I wrote letters. My spelling was frequently off and my efforts could be optimistically termed as 'mildly dismal' but I knew all my pen-pals' favourite colours and I enjoyed receiving the responses and writing mine after a long interval. (Procrastination has ever been a companion of mine.) (Unfortunately.) Photo… Continue reading snail mail and pen pals – letter writing for beginners
I haven't been a good Stoic. If I was a Stoic. Which I'm not. But if I was, I'd be a bad one. Life is full of disappointments and unmatched glove
I don’t know about you, but if I'm sleep-deprived, I turn into an emotional wreck riddled with paranoia and bouts of Certainty That Everything Is Dreadful.
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