Anne Atkins – Medium

Anne Atkins
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My Commonplace Book

Honest to God, this is the entire conversation. Beginning to end. Verbatim.

– What can I do for you?

1 min readMar 16, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

Not so much a bunch of flowers, as a bunch of statement.

“Who sent you those?” Shaun asked.

2 min readMar 10, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

“What shall I speak to the boys about today?”

“Hmm. Male Chaplain, talking to a Chapel full of boys, with a male head master and male head of the prep school?”

2 min readMar 8, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

The bizarre thing is, I’m really rather enjoying Lent.

Here’s a pleasant spin off, for instance. We have a lovely Muslim family staying with us for a week. Absolutely gorgeous. And today we did…

1 min readFeb 19, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

Hurrah: second day of Lent!

One down and one to go…

1 min readFeb 15, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

First day of Lent. Yay.

I’ve decided that the key to willpower — other than willpower, which is even more important, obviously — is positive thinking. So here we…

2 min readFeb 14, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

I always hated having a birthday on 2nd January.

My first ever birthday party was in my thirties. My mother was a teacher and my father head master of a choir school which worked up until…

3 min readJan 2, 2018

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Anne Atkins
in
My Commonplace Book

I don’t believe in New Year resolutions. Nevertheless. Here I am.

When we were first married Shaun said, You must write every day. Make it your Commonplace Book.

2 min readJan 1, 2018

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Anne Atkins

First Post

Just a test

1 min readFeb 20, 2014

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Anne Atkins

Anne Atkins

Novelist. One-time Shakespearean actor. Journalist, broadcaster and commentator if you pay me enough. Mother of far too many. Lover of one alone.

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