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A day of don’t ask me anything
Imagine...
 • Annie Ridout
I celebrated my failure with a scented oil
Because when we fail, it means we’ve tried. And that deserves recognition too. Also, I did something you’re not really meant to do and it had quite an…
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If it were Sunday every day
My youngest boy asked me why it can’t be Sunday every day, so I had a play with what it might look like, if it was.
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I didn’t get a book deal.
But I did get an insight into what matters in the publishing world right now, and an opportunity to reflect on what matters to me, as a writer.
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Hunkering down
I took the Government advice and stocked my shelves with tinned food. Now, I am imagining a dystopia - or is it a utopia? - where we all stay home, play…
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The one piece of advice I’d give to the parents of a neurodivergent child who is struggling in school
I never thought my children would go into school happily but now, they do. It’s been a drawn-out process but here’s what has made the difference.
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Thorny branches and finding the berries
Notes on finding softness and beauty in amongst the brambles and thorns. Also, a dream coming true and how writers ripen with age.
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I bunked off work on my first day back
When time is limited, use at least a bit of it for yourself.
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Changing habits.
For ourselves, for our children, for the world.
 • Annie Ridout
I don’t want the summer to end
An essay about the summer holidays and how we’re creating more freedom for ourselves (as a family) by working online.
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I got a pear tattoo.
I live in an area where there are people my age (40s) who are disgusted by tattoos. Here's why I got a new one, why I chose the pear and the importance…
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This is my future life.
In a Somerset coffee shop, I have a vision of my future life and it's - conflictingly - both glamorous and earthy; the future and the past. A bit like…
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It's cooler in Somerset.
As in: less hot. But maybe it's trendier, too. I was on Rightmove this week looking at houses in Frome, the town we left two and a half years ago…
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I water the garden with bathwater
The wild meadow is scorched and the bees aren't hovering any more. I decide to water the garden using the bathwater and while carrying tubs down the…
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Annie Ridout
Annie Ridout
Work-life essays from journalist, poet and non-fiction author Annie Ridout, covering: home, motherhood, womanhood, writing, freelancing, running a business, failure and success.
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