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Olive Framley Entry 9, 16th May.
I’m in hot water with Aunty Ermingarde. I don’t mind, really. I went over for tea and I was telling her about going off fortune telling and she took it really personally, shouting about my lying to the town (is it my fault they won’t pay me if I tell the truth?!) and then she… Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 15 16th May.
Dear Lucy, My dear, dear child. It’s so soon since I last wrote to you, but I was really quite moved by your description of trying to find clarity, pleading with the moon and stars! It does not sound silly. But I do feel for you, pleading out for an answer, receiving only silence in… Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 14, 15th May.
Your package couldn’t have arrived at a better time. I was in a very low mood following Mrs Webfoot’s anger, and the next day Mrs Edgwood came around and they gossiped about me rather loudly, and Mrs Edgwood told me that Suniya had gone home in tears. I tried to phone her but she didn’t… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 8, 12th May.
Last night I couldn’t sleep and I got up and wandered about. Firenze stirred for a moment, looked at me curiously, stared at me with an almost impertinent pointedness, and then pulled a leaf of sage off the plant and disappeared. I took this to mean that he must have understood our conversation. I wondered… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 7, 9th May.
Firenze has given me a shock. I knew we had a bond and I thought it was surprising when I had a future flash, but I have discovered that I vastly underestimated him. This morning I went down his enclosure and he was gone. I was frantic and I called Hatty, who denied having seen… Continue reading
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Bad advice: Ignore them (and they’ll go away) and other crappy advice for victims of bullying
I was thinking this morning how there are so many bits of generic advice we parrot without thought and I could genuinely write a series on these useless platitudes, or to be more brutal, bullshit wisdom. “Bullshit wisdom” is hard to spot because we say it so often and repeat it so much that we Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 10.5, 27th April
Dear Lucy, My dear, you did the right thing in reaching out to me! Of course we must help this new friend of yours! I fear you have exposed a little hypocrisy of mine, because while I firmly believe that our powers are not something we should shy away from or be frightened of, I… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 6, 26th April.
You will not have even read my previous letter as I write this, but I lay awake tossing and turning last night and worrying about this woman, this Mrs Webfoot. She seems to know about me and even know when I’m lying… so I realised I could go one better. Why do years of work… Continue reading
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Olive Framley Entry 4, 23rd April.
Dear Talia, It’s been a difficult few days for poor Firenze. I think Hatty must’ve disturbed the enclosure, or else the new surroundings have confused him, as he ended up climbing out and I ended up with him curled up next to me as I tried to plan a tarot reading. Continue reading
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Lucy Skylark Entry 4, 31st March.
Suki’s eggs have hatched! They are dear little chicks, although very noisy, and since she is on her own, Suki needs a lot of help getting enough food for them. Teddy does not like this. He wasn’t fond of Suki anyway, and, now there are a whole brood of chicks too, he is very restless.… Continue reading
Helen Speaks 