Author Archive: Ali
Sol 26 Clapping for carers
I once read that writing a blog is like shouting into the void. You don’t know if it’s echoing off bare rock or whether someone is out there. And maybe I’m just writing this to my future self. When I…
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Sol 24 Virtually a Birthday
The idea was right. My son’s 25th birthday – ‘a quarter of a century!’ as he tells people. And we can’t have a regular hands-on, everyone gets a bit of cake, toast the host kind of party, so let’s get…
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Sol 21 The city centre
Leeds City Centre has a lot of shops. In fact, Leeds is known, renowned for shops, shopping, it’s a leisure activity. It’s what Leeds does. On an average Saturday, it’s a big happening, people are cruising around, browsing clothes, buying…
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Sol 20 First thoughts
‘Let’s start at the very beginning, it’s a very good place to start’. Well yes, Maria, but the problem with this pandemic thing is that at the beginning, you don’t know it’s anything to proverbially lose sleep over. And then…
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