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Title: Dazzling Dutchess Debbie and the Monday Night Pube Party

If you thought your Mondays were wild, wait ‘til you hear what goes on in the men’s toilets when the lights go out and the doors swing shut. That’s right, folks: it’s time for another episode from everyone’s favorite cleaning crusader—Dazzling Dutchess Debbie! Picture this: it’s a Monday night, and the men’s urinal is positively […]

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Title: Results Day: Bladdergate & The NHS Circus (Yesterday’s Letter Re-Written)

Dearest readers, accidental clickers, and people who just like a bit of British medical mayhem, brace yourselves. It’s Results Day, aka “The Grand Reveal”, aka “Will I Cry in the Hospital Car Park Again It’s been six weeks of living in a soap opera written by someone on too much NHS prescription cough syrup. The […]

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Nora’s Gnashers, Oscar’s Howls & The Great Birthday Feast Fiasco”

Ey up, dear readers! Your favourite Yorkshire lass is back with another thrilling instalment of our lives that we couldn’t make up if we tried and questionable culinary choices. Welcome to the continuing saga of ‘Kate’s Life: Not Quite Downton Abbey’, more like ‘Downton Chippy’ if we’re honest. So, picture this: yesterday we finally rolled […]

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Fish Cottage, Twice-Cooked Chips & A Dickhead Called Cedric

Well, what can I say? The weather this morning is an absolute shambles. D.I.S-MALLLLLLL. Honestly, what the is going on? Yesterday, it was so hot I wore shorts and a vest, looking like a questionable extra from Love Island, and today? Today, it’s foggier than my memory after bottomless brunch. I can’t even see across […]

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Living the Dream (and Driving the Nurses Mad)

It’s the fourth day out here in the middle of nowhere, and it is fucking lovely! Matthew is healing nicely, getting plenty of rest, and miracle of miracles, actually letting himself recover. Meanwhile, I’m not just writing this blog; I’m officially starting to transfer it into a publishing file. That’s right, Screw Cancer: Rodger the […]

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Grief is a universal language that we all speak.

Grief is an emotion and sad feeling that the whole of humanity can connect with. We can all agree that at some stage in our lives we have lost somebody we loved, or somebody close to us. We can all understand that deep sadness that grief leaves behind and agree that we feel shock, disbelief and sadness.

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