Good to have you back. Wish I’d downloaded the Country Girls trilogy for 99p on Kindle the other day. Too slow and its reverted to full price. I never pay full price for kindle books - only real ones and I’m running out of space for them. Saw The Blue Road recently and can highly recommend if you’ve not seen it already. Beautifully done and very moving. What a woman.
I do feel inspired! I have no idea how a person goes about learning to sail but I might well be rocking up to Rutland Water Marina in the near future and finding out.
I remember your blog, Sarah – it was how I originally found your writing. Joined in with your Middlemarch book club way back in 2013! (First time I'd read the novel, after a false start in my teens and was really glad of the prompt.)
Glad you're finding a balance between work and hustle.
Thanks for the link to your Dunham piece. I loved Girls, persisted with Too Much after almost bailing out during the second episode, but found the cameos and more minor characters (including Dunham playing the depressed older sister) more engaging than the central romance.
I absolutely agree - it lit up when Dunham was on screen. But I could not buy the schmaltzy climax. NONE of those people should have been in relationships with each other!
Lovely to see a nod to probably my all time favourite band, and nice to be reading you again! Hard relate on the all-consuming need to be ever busy doing, making, writing, anything…
The children were not on the holiday, and also they're not really children anymore -- they're 23 and 19 -- so please withdraw your awe! I am definitely not that impressive 🙂
Ah, that slightly frightening age when they oscillate between needing you/are ferociously independent and you just hope that you haven’t been a completely hopeless parent. I’m just entering it now 😮💨
It's strange because in some ways, I've actually found young adulthood the most demanding phase of parenting since the baby-toddler years. Less busy than primary years and less stormy than the teens, but the things they're navigating are much more complicated. OTOH, they are great people who take their own holidays and I can spend my weeks off reading.
I would agree, the post 16/17 period has been the most challenging/demanding; and what happens if they don’t flourish? The anxiety is very real for many parents. Anyway, I digress and you are on holiday- well jel!
Really enjoy your posts and writing generally (Toxic is awesome), Sarah. Glad that you are happier hustling a little less.
Good to have you back. Wish I’d downloaded the Country Girls trilogy for 99p on Kindle the other day. Too slow and its reverted to full price. I never pay full price for kindle books - only real ones and I’m running out of space for them. Saw The Blue Road recently and can highly recommend if you’ve not seen it already. Beautifully done and very moving. What a woman.
I haven't! But I will be watching it soon and I'll probably write something about it when I do.
Look forward to reading that.
A good BBC produced audio version is available on the library app Borrowbox
Thanks!
Great to have you back. I have missed you!
So pleased that you took Julia Jones’s book on holiday. Hope it inspires you to go a-voyaging. x https://youtu.be/Zx6dgEgbMNU?feature=shared
I do feel inspired! I have no idea how a person goes about learning to sail but I might well be rocking up to Rutland Water Marina in the near future and finding out.
Sailing clubs, the lower fi (cheaper) the friendlier they tend to be to people who want to learn.
It was wonderful to have you writing this newsletter again Sarah, I really enjoyed it.
I remember your blog, Sarah – it was how I originally found your writing. Joined in with your Middlemarch book club way back in 2013! (First time I'd read the novel, after a false start in my teens and was really glad of the prompt.)
Glad you're finding a balance between work and hustle.
Thanks for the link to your Dunham piece. I loved Girls, persisted with Too Much after almost bailing out during the second episode, but found the cameos and more minor characters (including Dunham playing the depressed older sister) more engaging than the central romance.
I absolutely agree - it lit up when Dunham was on screen. But I could not buy the schmaltzy climax. NONE of those people should have been in relationships with each other!
Lovely to see a nod to probably my all time favourite band, and nice to be reading you again! Hard relate on the all-consuming need to be ever busy doing, making, writing, anything…
Broadcast are a good band. I like their content and I like yours.
Great to see Tox Report back! I’ve missed it.
God I’d forget the oddly specific CIF fee.
Yeah it is quite hard in retrospect quite hard to see it as not a deliberate insult.
I’m in awe that you read 5 books while on holiday when you have children.
The children were not on the holiday, and also they're not really children anymore -- they're 23 and 19 -- so please withdraw your awe! I am definitely not that impressive 🙂
Ah, that slightly frightening age when they oscillate between needing you/are ferociously independent and you just hope that you haven’t been a completely hopeless parent. I’m just entering it now 😮💨
It's strange because in some ways, I've actually found young adulthood the most demanding phase of parenting since the baby-toddler years. Less busy than primary years and less stormy than the teens, but the things they're navigating are much more complicated. OTOH, they are great people who take their own holidays and I can spend my weeks off reading.
I would agree, the post 16/17 period has been the most challenging/demanding; and what happens if they don’t flourish? The anxiety is very real for many parents. Anyway, I digress and you are on holiday- well jel!