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  • Are You Eating Properly, Dear?

    Are You Eating Properly, Dear?

    10th December 2009 | 1 comments | 1 person likes this

    I was queuing at the post office this morning.

    Well, I would have been queuing if the French hadn't abolished it in the Fifties and replaced it with 'competitive huddling.'

    To clarify: instead of the traditional one-behind-the-other business, the idea is that every new individual desirous of service, casually wanders up to the ‘queue’ and joins it somewhere at the side, until the ‘huddle' becomes a sizable cluster. At which point, a...

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  • A BikeThief Saved My Novel (sort of)

    A BikeThief Saved My Novel (sort of)

    13th November 2009 | 2 comments | 4 people like this

    ‘Most people have a novel in them,’ commented Scot-grot writer, Irvine Welsh, ‘and in most cases that’s where it should stay.’ 

    Now, I happened to be vibrating with caffeine when I read this quote and, obviously assuming Irvine was addressing me directly, momentarily rethought my grand idea to join in the frolics at National Novel Writing Month.  If the title has failed to enlighten, NaNoWriMo requires that mentalists aspiring authors write...

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Deborah Willimott

Deborah Willimott

Deborah Jane Willimott is a freelance writer who escaped to the snowy promise of the French Alps a few years ago after London destroyed her sanity and her credit rating. She regularly contributes to various websites and British womens glossies including Cosmo and Glamour but despite these grown-up pursuits is primarily a thirty year old still working part-time in a cafe, renting a room the size of a chest freezer and attempting to write amusing and entertaining content for popular consumption. She writes a daily blog at http://theweemo.wordpress.com/ And shes working on a novel. Of course.