Sunday, 12 April 2020

Netflix Party between Modestly Cautious Owl (née Cautiousist Owl née Cautious Owl née Boat Party née Brother), Mum (without a name for some reason) and Owls Are Silly (néeThe Most Cautious Owl That Ever Existed Or Will Ever Exist née The Cautiouser Owl née The Boat Party Better, née Me)


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Hello!

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YES!!!

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We did it!

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I see a mum and a me :)

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So simple and straightforward...

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who needs actual visits and watching in person

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why are we paused?

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Shall we start watching?

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I vote YE

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S

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may have to get chicken in a moment but can do this while watching

Hi why can I hear anna now?

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Let's do this!

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Mum you there?

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You can hear me cos we're all in a party together

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LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED

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She thought Elle's voice was you on a whatsapp call

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Type Mum

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then i will start this partyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

What? Start the bloody film!

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Yeah!

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Please translate all the pretty signs

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This is a story about a tiny fox that lived in a shoe

oh yeah

Is this a childrens film

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How dare you

aaah so sweet

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It looks like Anna in that ballerina picture where she has her hair tied back

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it's so cute

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Why you pausing?!

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I didn't

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Look at the chat list. Yes you did!

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oh yes

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oops

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are they insane?

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oh

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she does move

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i was getting chicken and missed that

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ugh. Babies

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She appeared in a bamboo shoot

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A glowing bamboo shoot

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of course

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that's how we all become

why has she reverted to babyhood?

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the whole stork thing is a smokescreen

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the film anticipated your question mum :)

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SHE'S A MONSTER

have you eaten Annie? Sorry should be a comma after eaten!

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am eating now

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Strangrely ugly baby

not now

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not sure her parents are the brightest sparks

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you can tell she's adopted

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They haven't really worked out how it works yet have they?

I have a lot of time for older parents!

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what happened there?

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did she shut them up and also wtf is happening

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why is he clapping?

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He's getting her to walk

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geez keep up

to bring her to him ...

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mum you never carried ME in a wicker basket

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you're a bad parent

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clearly

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agreed

Oh yes I did - it was a moses basket - it was when we left you with our neighbours by accident

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hahahaha

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well there's no way of coming back from that

I had only had a little to drink..

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wait

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this is a true story, isn't it?

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Of course

cant you tell..

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james just popped his head in and said 'oh, is that princess k(i've forgotten the name but he got it right)

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you guys should really meet

she really is a bamboo, isn't she?

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she's not singer, that's for sure

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*a

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good lord

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they should discourage that immediately

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Beautiful

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A regular britney

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oof. won't end well in that case

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it's a tooth you moron

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Not it ain't

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oh. maybe not

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FINE

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it looked like a baby tooth

no its gold - now they are rich

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Clearly don't know your Japanese folk tales

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they don't care for money

this is ture

true

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they are simple people with honest values

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they'd probs vote for Trump

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a romance approaches

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ten to fifteen minutes before she falls for ponytail

dont think you know your politics. Trump may be lots of things but not Japanese..

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lemons?

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no

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mangos? what are they?

melons

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ohhh

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big juicy melons

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that's what he said

you clearly dont know your fruti

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(sorry)

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Here he comes

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well he looks like a massive threat

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Haha

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Is he putting the melon back with its friends?

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forced proximity/danger

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childhood romance step 1

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she only needs to get a tiny bit older

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new experiences childhood romance step 2

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bet she grows older while eating the melon

you have definately read to many romances

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She ripens

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Hahaha it's like it's a metaphor or something

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if only it were less obscure...

so what do all the robes mean

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they are rubbish robes for garbage people

see I was right about gold!!!

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you totally were

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Or it's a pot of baby teeth

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i bow to your expertise. and am not at all shaken to the core that once you left me with the neighbors and they had to bring me back in a fragile wicker basket out of which I could have fallen

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And that's the main curency in Japan at the time

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(in case you were wondering)

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i'm really not sure about the 'music' in this film

No we remembered you just as we got to our front door and went back for you. The moses basket was strong and safe. You loved it.

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maybe it's better in japanese?

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You're not listening to it dubbed are you?

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hmm. Ok. But only because actually I think I remember that basket

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yes!

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Fool!

who is the other baby?

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ohhhh

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Who has subtitles on?

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changed it

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me

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Mum?

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alice was being loud

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but don't we need them?

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The other baby is just a baby

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now it's in japanese

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We need subtitles

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Not dubbed!

np dont have subtitles on. Should I?

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wait I'm still paused

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Me too

me too

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It should be in Japanese!

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oh that baby confused me

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I paused it

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Are you both watching with English audio?

Are we all paused in same place

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i was

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now i've changed to japanese and english subtitles

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Yes we are

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didn't realise you could change. was a fool of a took

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was annoyed it was dubbed and everything

How?

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Thought you were being unreasonably mean about her singing!

are you still paused

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How what?

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MUM!

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It. Was. Terrible

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how do you change audio she means

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Do you have it in Japanese audip?

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Or English?

no in english and its still paused

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Change it to Japanesr

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It will ruin the film in English probably

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Unless you really want english?

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oh that's already better

done . unpaure

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the american dubbed voices were SO annoying

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Very. I watched so many in English before I realised how much better they are in Japanese

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peril/rescue/accidental fall on top of each other romance trope 3)

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hair down! helping wounded hero romance trope 4)

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and 5)

ive got to bit shere he is bleeding after falling. Are you further ahead?

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we are all in the same place mum

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that's how it works

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We're all watching together!

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It's at the same point

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it pauses for everyone at the same time

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See

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?

so if I pause it we all pause?

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Yes

Wow that's so cool

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mmm oyster mushrooms

wgat?

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Tasty

what?

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They found mushrooms

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oh dear

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their faces are vv sad :(

Im a bit confused. Did they already go to capital with gold/teech?

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look at his blocky little eyebrows

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Yes

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He's been a few times

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OH NO

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romance interrupted until he comes back suddenly when she's a princess

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dum dum duuuuuummmmm

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creepy

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`The weird littlegirl is great

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(them not you)

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beautiful drawings

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why is her head so big?!

where are mum and dad?

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unsure

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i love that the servants have no faces

I think the plot is a little complex for me...

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The films will answer all

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WTAF

what does that mean?

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they are insane. I knew it

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What The Actual Fuck

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oh wow. It's like Clueless!

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it's a walk in wardrobe!!!

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THE DREAM

Not romance - rags to riches then back again I suspect

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still a romance. if she gets arrogant he'll come back and remind her of simpler things

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but suspect she'll stay good

shes forgotten all her old friends and the pheasant asserole

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Asserole. Hahaha

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this new lady is the bird from The Lion King

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Spot on

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brace for a song

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I just stood with a swish

its my fair lady - She's Eliza Dolittle but Japanese

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yes, both

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or The Princess Diaries

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awesome

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i want one

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ha. bird lady's face is amazing

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All the rich makeup looks absolutely ridiculous

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I wonder if it really looked like that

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didn't mean to do that but also do need another glass of wine

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K you start when you're back

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Wait for Anna!

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Stop it!

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You're a menace!

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I win

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What;s hapening?!

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did I miss something?

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was just getting a glass of wine and more chicken - is why I paused it!

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stop pausing it!

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Wait!

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I jumped back

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Anna have you missed stuff?

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Mum?

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Why u pause?

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i'm not sure but keep going

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last I saw she was being an awesome princess

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OK!

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I'm going back

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There

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She's with her mum

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but now she's sad about a banquet

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You havent missed anything

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ok :)

are we still all together?

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Yes

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huh. She's started her period?

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Yep

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i didn't get a party

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we are barbarians

whi is party bat?

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if I'd had a banquet I'd be a true princess now

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adam is

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I'm sure you already are

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(party bat)

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No I'm not

but you werent a bat at the beginning. how do you do that?

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I'm cautious owl

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Mine won't let me update :(

I seem to be a slab if chocolate with wrapping torn

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blackened teeth?

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bizaare

was regarded as a sign of beauty

like tiny feet in china

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Nothing says beauty like charcoaled gu,s

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gums

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i wonder if our tiny waist thing is as weird to China and Japan

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wait. So they've just decided she's a princess?

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of what?

shes rich

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good point

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of bamboo

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so weird: https://www.google.com/search?q=black+teeth+sign+of+beauty+japan&rlz=1C1GCEA_enGB813GB813&sxsrf=ALeKk01Jj0HRPWQqr6UMocL3zEpwZlGAww:1586723545995&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=2ktdF6h7QNxu-M%253A%252CnydedQvb2VsS0M%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSVjvMlu0VI7H6W9ghvTWkAnAaO3Q&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb8cLq3ePoAhXPa8AKHYOMAiAQ_h0wAHoECAoQBA#imgrc=YsRLA4aMcYvfwM

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didnt you believe your mum?

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I did! Genuinely, just curious about why

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she gets a whole ceremony for her hair?!

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oh dear. also the dad is adorable

back to her roots? Trope 5?

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that was beautiful

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and no. think it's gone jane eyre for a bit

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Haha, I was thinking more harry potter

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her parents will be worried :(

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Is it Jane Eyre where she becomes a roaming mad woman?

no

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not quite but sort of

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she lets the hills embrace her

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it's a whole thing

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There is something else I'm thinking of where that does happen

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is she where her old village was?

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Yeah

yes wuthering heights. Heathcliffe and Catherine

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she needs to go back to the capital! her poor parents

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they haven't even done anything wrong

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ohhhhh

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'and it was only a dream'

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Or is this the dream?

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well she's fucked that up

maybe not. maybe magic

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give her back her brows!

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See how beautiful she is now?

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It's like drag race

I feel you are not very culturally aware...

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noooooooo

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Yeah racist

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the bird could totally escape that cage

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the holes were massive

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you don't need to open it love it's barely a cage

she has feed him. She is a good person

freed!

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beautiful blossom :)

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a deliberate pause mum?

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Seems not

no i dont think it was me

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yes, guessed once it started!

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uh oh. I suspect he's not a good man

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he has EvilBrows(TM)

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Arch evil. I'm envious

nicely done face into wheel

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first made popular by Jafar

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Jaffar maybe

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spelling is hard

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Or Bryan Blessed as Ming in Flash Gordon

I hope she refueses him

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she will see straight through him and his brows

make them do a competition

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where is her mum?!

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Gardening

coronoviras got her

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#dark

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hahaha he just looks so clearly evil

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fine, fine, boring, EVIL, fine

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I love the music in this so much. Reminds me of old Disney soundtracks

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i think this guy spits when he talks

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swipe left princess

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Haha was going to say that

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fire-rat fur?! is that... good?

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He doesn't think so

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yeah, Evil(TM) nailed it

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ugh. soppy

I hope she takes the little one - he looks kind...

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no wonder my love life is doomed

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at this point i'd go evil

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second from the left is sort of hot

told you - a competition

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get in

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love a compettiion

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Kind of a competition. Kind of a deliberately impossible task

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that's awesome

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she's clever

I think the right word is quest. I dont think she wants to marry any of them and can you blame her

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has owl forgotten how to type?

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Anna where are you?

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She is the most cautious owl

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Adam is only modest

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(he lost)

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(or was the bigger owl)

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I high roaded

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(one or the other)

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We both won in our own ways

how much have you had to drink tonight

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yes. yours was a modest win

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and i have had two glasses of wine

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soon to have a third though

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Yours was a Trump like victory

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so I have a golden tower and am president?

how many owls are there? Is Anna an owl too?

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sounds dreadful

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yes! I am the Most Cautious Owl

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wait I got distracted

very confusing... how do I get to be mother owl?

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what happened?

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They went to see blosssoms. She bumped into a child and the woman apologiesd profusely because she's a princess and it made her sad

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beautifully summarised

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hahahaha ponytail!

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Jasmine/Street Rat

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called it

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But more brutal

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yes is horrid

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SAVE HIM

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you're a princess!

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Mm you still awake?

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Mum

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she has been quiet

yes. Trying to work out what has happened and whyu ehy are back and poor again

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wait is she still a princess? assume not?

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She is

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I'm with you mum

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the drawings are gorgeous

if so why. If not, why not?

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They had a little hut at the back remember?

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ohhh yes

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but no silly makeup

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someone's been on the whiskey

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ewww

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maybe the father isn't adorable after all

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was this the one you thought looked kind?

no he wa smuch younger

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this is like Gregg from Masterchef tasting a dessert that he likes

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very dramatic

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and equally false

but imagine having to marry him!

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Haha. Makes me think of an am dram person who thinks they are a lot better than they are

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haha - yes, v much so

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EvilBrow? Or Ponytail?

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oh

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Whoops

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busted

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the dad is just not the brightest gold tooth in the bamboo is he

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yeah. Well meaning, but a bit slow

nice bit of smatter thought

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this is like the guy in goa mum

though not thought

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'I shall light this pashmina on fire'

you are right - a ture salesman

true

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don't do it it's pretty!

impressive trick

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dear oh dear

so rat fur should not burn?

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'they say that to marry you, he has put away his wife'

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sounds like an upstanding sort of chap

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it's the hot one! wishing him luck from afar

hes quite fit

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Smooth

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very smooth

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he'd do well in corporate life, I feel

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could make anything seem like it was a deliberate strategy

you cynical lot

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The company collapsed to make us all learn a lesson

so he is on furlogh

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apparently so since he's got time for all these dancing fish

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wait what

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nuns?

thats the one I meant

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oh he is sweet

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awww

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And dead

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so is that!

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oh dear

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poor short one

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also how come she isn't already old?

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does she just get to be, like, 18 and then pause indefinitely?

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Yeah, seems it slows down suddenly

i wish

can we pause. i need to go to loo and get more chocolate

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paused the video

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'and I'll wear a courtier's cap'

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he's the one that should be on drag race

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Haha, particularly with a line like that

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am popping to the loo also - don't start twithout me

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ha, yes, and the frozen expression is perfect

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now going to the loo

ok?

only me?

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I'm here

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You following it?

sort of. off we go

started playing the video

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paused the video

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am back

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Cool

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Start it Mum!

started playing the video

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everythign he's saying is more and more drag race

wheres chat room gone

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we are here

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You're typing in it...

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also that lack of an apostrophe is killing me

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he's not very smooth

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had expected more from an emperor

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at least a cup of tea

ive lost you all

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no you are here

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paused the video

left

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mum is trying to sign back in

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What happened?

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She was typing into the chat room

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yes i know

joined

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she's going to speak to you

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I can't get through to her

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ooh mum you're back

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Yeah!

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What happened?

started playing the video

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i don't know. maybe her wifi dropped out?

im bacj

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mum are you there?

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yay!

or even back

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whoop

who is he

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paused the video

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the emperor

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How much have you missed?!

hes so young

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he loves her now cos he saw her playing an instrument

why are we paused

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and because she refused to come to the capital

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Because you were asking who he was!

so hes a genuinley good egg

shall we start up?

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hmm don't think so

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started playing the video

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his courting approach was to hug her suddenly from behind

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even tinder is better than that

do do tinder for pensioners?

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Probably

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ooh, twist

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Off he goes

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she's a MUCH better singer now

i sense a sad ending coming up

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no

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i think happy

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am determined

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ponytail is still in the wings

he didn't look a very good prospect though

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What because he stole a chicken?

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ginger has flowers?!

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I guess so!

yup

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And looks like tiny figurines apparently

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is that ponytail?

hes narrued wuth kid?

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maybe he'll put away his wife

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i sense a chip

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Lots of places to 'disappear' in that bamboo forrest

she is moral so is he. Maybe it wasnt his wife or kid

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his plans aren't great

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'i'll carry you on my back'

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NO

he is rather shouty

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don't be silly

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he's clearly insane

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i'm sad he's lost his ponytail

how come they can fly now

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(i meant 'don't be silly at the princess not you mum, just in case)

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and i think it's a metaphor for sex?

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because

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oh

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moral MY ARSE

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yup

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apparently japanrese men are garbage

he was momentarily seduced by magic

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It's the life he could have had

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spose

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See how great she is!

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awwww

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nooo

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!!!

now im crying

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this is so sad

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WHY

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this better get better, brother

now you know why moon is so bright tonight

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Mum wins :)

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Sorry!

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WTF

boo hoo

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Was quite enjoying you predict everything!

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but she wanted to stay

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Knew you weren't going to guess that one!

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why would that happen?

thenks for organising. Lets go for a comedy next time!

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Haha yea

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isn't world sad enough?!

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and probably not subtitled

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I think it's so beautiful though

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that was a beautiful film

Ok more of the jap drama

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No! Comedy, I agree!

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not sure about 'jap' mum...

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but yes for comedy

I thought you might pick that up!

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nese drama?

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better

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anese

whats nese

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surely

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anese

whats anese

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the second bit of japanese

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Jap

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anese

thats the best laught I've had all eavening

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at anese?

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Probably at Jap

at avoiding jap

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Haha

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is there a sequel?

good night my lovely offspring. Sleep tight and feam of moons and stars

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There is not

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Good night ma

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night mum :) xx

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It is a really old japanese fold tale

xxx

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Night sister!

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well it sucks

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haha

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night both! xx

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We could make a sequel?

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A raid on the moon?

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sleep well. Can we do this again please?

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it is fun

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Agreed :)

it is fun

yes please

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I like being able to bitch during the film without being told to shut up

exactly

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I can bring that in if you want to make it more like the real thing?

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left

left

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that seemed sudden

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good night guys. xx


Friday, 10 April 2020

'It's Tuesday! Or, as we now call it: Day'

Weird, weird day. We're having to put some of our staff on temporary 'furlough', one of the many new words suddenly appearing. Along with 'coronavirus', 'self-isolation', 'social distancing', 'Facewine'. Brave New World. I don't know why I feel so tragic about this. It's really ok and amazing that the company is actually supporting staff as much as they are. They're even paying 20% on top of the government's 80% coverage of salaries, so no one will have to take a paycut. All promotions and payrises are halted, which really really REALLY sucks for my team. Particularly one member of it, who I also can't quite work out how/if to put on furlough. Otherwise she is going to end up covering for everyone else who gets a fully paid holiday. She's on so little money and it just doesn't seem at all fair. But I can't figure out how else to do it.

It's ridiculous really. I mean it could be so much worse. I'm just worried that I've got it wrong, that I should have fought better for some books. And it's only short-term. I'm just so bad at scheduling things. What if I've missed something obvious?

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Wrote this on the Tues 6th April I think - it's now Good Friday so NO WORK. We've had all the furloughing chats and it was ok. The next six weeks will be tough but we are also so lucky to have the option of doing it at all - in the US they're just going to have to let people go if things don't pick up. Lockdown continues and is looking likely to do so for another few weeks. It's Dad's birthday today - always an odd day somehow. Not painful - I find the month where he actually died (October) tricky, but also it's just a tricky month I think - but his birthday just makes me a bit drifty somehow and quite anti-social. Luckily my going out options are nill, so I'm sticking to reading in the garden, cooking scallops for the first time as my housemates had never tried them and I wanted to try doing cooking them as I never have (https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/scallops-with-chorizo - good, but next time much hotter pan as they didn't get properly caramelised on top). We've been watching LOTs of Masterchef and I've lost two bets meaning that I'm now meant to be weeding the front garden and cleaning the top cupboard and have reinforced my determination to never go to Vegas.

Wherever you are Dad, I'm thinking of you. I feel as though - before getting ill - you'd have embraced this lockdown. You're basically not that sociable and think you'd have been very happy with jazz on, watching football and not moving very much! I wish you were here and could do that while Mum yells at you for not being outside in the sunshine.

In other news, we're down to three bottles of wine, which is UNCONSCIONABLY low and shall not stand. Am going to order some wine immediately.

Monday, 30 March 2020

Day... Seven? Unsure. It's been a while.

So continuing after I failed to continue owing to a small bit of whirling panic about work. What happened today? I offered again on a big author. We'll see what happens. Two very nice publicity things happened though: for one author (amazing sharp and funny man), Russell T. Davies - THE Russell T. Davies of Years and Years and Dr Who fame - got in touch with the author to say he loved the book! So very exciting and much needed, given we're publishing in May and all the bookshops are closed. And also, had the very, very rare thing when a piece of PR says absolutely everything you've ever wanted said about a book you've edited! I'm proud of the book and the package anyway but reviews have been mixed (they were always going to be BUT): https://www.mailplus.co.uk/food/food-news/3618/new-a-book-and-a-bottle-with-sarah-vine.-its-the-series-thats-made-for-locked-down-lovers-of-literature?utm_source=newsletter&signin=none

After work finally finished I did a bit of yoga, day five on a fourteen day challenge. I balanced my legs on my shoulders. I think I bruised a leg but I did also feel quite proud. Ooh, and I did a proper crow pose: https://www.doyogawithme.com/content/14-day-yoga-challenge-day-five. I do feel like I'm definitely getting better at yoga  but also that's because there is NOTHING ELSE TO DO. What if, once this all ends, I've forgotten how to go out and also lost touch with all my friends? Finally the bans will be lifted and I'll just... shrug and turn back to Netflix? Also today, I had a big piece of chicken covered in gravy (made a roast last night with a tarragon, lemon and rosemary butter under the skin and a lemon in the chicken - the chicken was still a bit frozen inside so took way too long to cook, but even a bit over-crisped it was nice. Also made boulangere potatoes which actually worked for the first time ever - though remember to try adding milk next time actually as think that would work even better, shaved courgettes in a garlic and basil olive oil (nice but not sure about the luke warmness) and a 'mash' (sort of, mostly just a bit crushed) of turnips, carrots and swede that was surprisingly delicious. Well that was a bit of a tangent wasn't it but it was GOOD). Anyway, where was I? Ah yes, chicken. Anyway, I was trying to read with one hand so obviously using the knife like an actual evolved human was impossible. So I just picked it up in one hand and gnawed on it like a feral beast, gravy dripping, bones crunching, no napkin... Felt a bit guilty but tbh only because I thought I should - after all, no one had to know. And then my friend Rachel told me tonight that she got potato on her hand during dinner and accidentally touched her hair. When her hand came back down it didn't have potato on it anymore. She drew conclusions, considered options and realised that no one would see. So it's still there, somewhere. She's fine with it. We're all fine. In no way have bwe discovered tonight that civilisation is a thin veneer enforced only by the social judgement of others.

Alice made a mushroom and jerusalem artichoke stew tonight. Smelled beautiful, tasted a bit dull and also was very grey. Finished the night after chatting to mum (in Archer's mode today thank god) watching Noughts and Crosses with Alice and James. I am so very lucky to have housemates at the moment.

Until tomorrow. And all of the joy that awaits. Sufficient unto the day. 

Day five: LOCKDOWN (yes we're all getting increasingly dramatic deal with it)

Am rewatching Buffy and currently we're at the point when Buffy believes she's in a mental asylum. Currently that feels like reading the news. Boris (our Prime Minister in the new reality that slowly invaded our country post-Brexit), has Coronavirus! As does, ironically, our Health Secretary, whose name I've forgotten but who is another shiny-faced 50-something rich white man.

So, what happened yesterday? The days are slightly blurring into one. I cooked breakfast - omelette with gruyere and mushrooms and a salad of kolhbari, tomatoes and radishes with a mustard vinagrette. It was very yummy if a bit too fatty on the omelette front. Then went for a long cycle to Norwood Park and then Crystal Palace park. Beautiful, hilly, hard work and very strange seeing all the boarded up shops. Sort of sad and epic and weird all at once. I've realised I often feel very dramatic when cycling around somehow. And now I'm allowed to (it is now the morning of Monday and I'm skittering helplessly between emails). Now it is the afternoon. Am panicking a bit. Scary author call coming up and mid-negotations and I need to do two offers and I'm meant to have sent highlights and UGH. Working from home is tough at times.

Friday, 27 March 2020

Day Three Corona Virus and Role Playing Games

So didn't manage to write yesterday but it was a long work day followed by an abortive Zoom attempt with family and followed by making a nice butternut squash curry. For future reference, roasting the squash first in ground spices really works. Coconut milk, tomato (and puree) and lots of onion, And cinnamon - it was actually nicer than I thought it was at the time (had some for dinner tonight). Today I have had five meetings, which is - next-week-Anna please remember - too many and also spacing them every hour is a bad plan for it doesn't leave enough time to actually do anything else in between. However, it's actually been quite a satisfying week, workwise. Lots of new challenges. I know, that sounds v corporate and horrid but do actually mean it. Such ridiculous circumstances have really taken the pressure off. Realistically we were v unlikely to make budget this year across our two lists, and I was quite worried even though I am trying (with a great lack of focus) to find a different sort of job. NOW, I can just explain that it's cos of Corona. There should be a name really for the blaming of Corona/Covid 19 for everything. Covustification. Covidsplaining (when a man takes it upon himself to explain The Situation).

Things that have made me laugh: a tasting of white wine last week. James (still learning to taste wine), tried some and then said, loudly, 'tannins!' I said, 'No.' He said, 'But that's a word people say about wine!' So we've got some way to go before getting to sommelier level. We then imagined what if James had a very middle class version of Tourettes and just stumbled around the world shouting things like, 'Mortgage!', 'Excellent schools!', 'Jerusalem artichokes!', 'Single Origin!'. And now I can't stop thinking about it and giggling because also we haven't spoken to any other actual humans for some time. Except a lady I met while picking up the vegetables on Thursday. Her hand touched mine when she passed me the padlock and I winced. Strange times, indeed.

Tonight, I had a family Zoom call which was nice - lovely to see Adam and Elle and the cats, and lovely to see Mum (though she did immediately tell me off for not speaking to her the day before). I did yet more yoga, which I'm currently getting very very hooked to. Stood on my head the other day and then thought... was this a good use of my time? I remain unsure.

Later I chatted to some friends to set up a role playing game. It's only my second one of them, and playing it remotely should be interesting. I'm a noble, with a demon part and some Dark Powers that currently remain unspecified. Owing to a slightly drunken brainstorm, we unfortunately worship a Leaf God (i know) and live in a treehouse/old watchtower. We are a cult and our reputation is 'strange'. The last one I played I managed to break in under an hour by calling the character who turned out to be the big bad on the phone and explaining all of our plans to him. I would have said this one could only go better, but, well, I did help create our leaf god. Also we're called The Horticultists. And we worship the 'Curious Arborial'. One thing is for sure: even if we are once again allowed to touch strangers, I'm unlikely ever to have sex again.



  

Wednesday, 25 March 2020

Coronavirus, lockdown, strangeness

Well, what a difference a few months makes... I feel as though I'm currently living in one of the books I publish!

Coronavirus, a flu-like, infectious virus without a current vaccine, has spread around the world since December, beginning with China. 

It sounds like a (clumsily worded) beginning to a book pitch, and to be honest writing it down feels very, very odd. I can't believe it's actually true. It makes me realise how very strange the whole thing has been! I'm currently working from home, as is my whole company. All non-essential shops are shut. Except for Sports Direct who continue to insist they are 'essential' (for the wealth of the twatty owner). It's not a terribly lethal disease, in good news, it's a bit like very nasty flu, but has a higher death rate for those with underlying conditions. It's now in every continent in the world. EVERY CONTINENT. As of yesterday, the UK is on 'lockdown'. We are not allowed to meet more than one person in a public place, all pubs, bars and so forth are now closed by government decree. It makes me realise how generally anxious I've felt about not going out enough and now that's just - gone. It's sort of freeing/scary, until I found myself today managing to be anxious about what would happen when it gets better and opens up again and would I be invited to enough post-Corona parties? There are deaths, Anna. Actual deaths and terror and lives ruined and THAT is the bit I choose to worry about.

Also, in charge of the US is still this man:


Which I think we can all agree is a shame. Thus far he insists on referring to Covid 19 as 'the China flu', has decided on a hunch that it is 'very mild' (global pandemic), said there would be a vaccine by the end of March (there won't be) and told America that insurance companies have agreed to pay for treatment (they haven't). So, business as usual.

Work is... weird. Worried about the team. Happily am living with Alice and James who remain lovely, and together we are watching films, drinking wine, and generally just trying to weather it as best we can. Also worried about keeping my job, having to take a pay cut, no longer getting a load of promotions through that I'd fought for and generally just hoping everyone doesn't go mental. At least people are going to need books to read, I suppose. I've told myself I'm going to try and keep a diary, as these are officially, as designated by the Chinese curse, 'interesting times'.

So. What did I do today? Ate a late breakfast (sourdough, avocado, tomato, blue cheese, balsamic yes I know don't judge me and thank god no one reads this but if I'm going to be stuck in the house I'm going to damn well make nice food). Answered emails, sat on Teams calls, emailed authors. Didn't really achieve a lot but did catch up with everyone, which I do think is important also. Had miso soup and dried mango for a sort of lunch and did two (terrible) exercise classes with Alice in the garden around lunch time, then the first of the amazing Fiji McAlpine's 14 day workshop: https://www.doyogawithme.com/content/14-day-yoga-challenge-day-one. Tonight, Alex has decided to have a 'virtual pub', so we'll all be chatting on Houseparty with wine (online apps for Facechat are now HUGE). At some point I'm going to eat rice I made yesterday which is flavoured with black and green cardamom, fresh turmeric, coriander seeds (that bit was a mistake - too floral) and chicken stock. And it is going to be nice. Will also call mum for today's episode of The Archers meets I Am Legend, which is always a pleasure. She's on her own in the house, to be fair, and doing amazingly well. Thank goodness for her garden, for Netflix, for Amazon Prime and for the BBC. Definitely the new gods for this new and strange time.

Until tomorrow...