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Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. I’m just back from eight amazing days in New Zealand. I’ll do a show-off holiday post within the next few days but in the meantime, the pic above was taken on the Kaikōura Peninsula, where you can gaze at snow-capped mountains and listen to waves crashing. Magical. Continue reading →

The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley

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I was sold as soon as I saw the subtitle ‘…a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood’ of Freya Bromley’s The Tidal Year.

Much like Jessica Lee’s Turning, Bromley tracks her emotional state against a year of swimming. Where Lee focused on lakes around Berlin, Bromley decided to swim in Britain’s tidal pools – it was her way of managing the incomprehensible grief she felt after the death of her teenage brother, Tom. Continue reading →

Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn

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Every so often, I’m prompted to do a literature-adjacent project that (happily) sends me down rabbit holes. The podcast Once Upon a Time… at Bennington College started one, and this summer, Anna Dorn’s Perfume & Pain has started another. It’s a television-related rabbit hole.

It’s no secret that I have no standards when it comes television. Reality TV? Dish me up. True crime doco? Sure. SBS subtitled drama, seemingly filmed without lighting? Yep, I’ll watch that. I’m unapologetic about the fact that I will enjoy an episode of Love Island as much as Deutschland 83, and Succession as much as Derry Girls. I mention this because halfway through Perfume & Pain, I realised that I had to watch all six seasons of the 2004 drama series, The L Word, to grasp Dorn’s pop-culture-lesbian references. Continue reading →