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Funerals can be fun

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‘Getting back to normal’

Writing as ‘Fun’ and finding a new direction after loss

4 min readSep 6, 2021

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I’m Retired. Do I really need to keep working?

I have always worked. I worked from the age of 14. Saturday job, holiday jobs, temping for a year pre-university, vacation work as a…

4 min readSep 6, 2021

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Chapter 10: The cheesy song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” has never been more poignant.

How I escaped Icelandic quarantine.

8 min readAug 3, 2021

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Chapter 10: The cheesy song “Leaving on a Jet Plane” has never been more poignant.

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Chapter 9: “Isolation is work” (without the salary and the office romance)

Well it’s Saturday…again…and I shouldn’t be here. Unfortunately the Icelandic authorities and anyone with even a basic understanding of the…

4 min readJul 31, 2021

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Chapter 8: Why don’t Netto sell anything useful, like a banjo or a large bottle of gin?

I think I’ve been going about this the wrong way. If I want to get out of Icelandic quarantine then perhaps I need to make myself more of a…

4 min readJul 30, 2021

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Chapter 8: Why don’t Netto sell anything useful, like a banjo or a large bottle of gin?

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Chapter 7: Gallows humour, seeking space and the pursuit of vitamin D

So I’m over the hill now. Not in a post-menopausal sort of way, although that’s probably true also, more in a WW1 trenches sort of way. I…

4 min readJul 29, 2021

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Chapter 7: Gallows humour, seeking space and the pursuit of vitamin D

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Chapter 6: Day 7: Week 1 of Icelandic Quarantine completed & wishing I was in Spain

So I had a day off… no blog on day 6…simply didn’t have the energy.

5 min readJul 28, 2021

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Chapter 6: Day 7: Week 1 of Icelandic Quarantine completed & wishing I was in Spain

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Chapter 5: HELP! Is this quarantine…or incarceration?

I don’t know if it’s an under researched symptom of Covid19, a reaction to the food or some sort of isolation psychosis but I have started…

3 min readJul 26, 2021

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Chapter 5: HELP! Is this quarantine…or incarceration?

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Chapter 4: Sunday blues & Netto treats

Day 4 dawned a little later than the others so far. I’d really struggled to sleep last night and then I was awoken by what I can only…

4 min readJul 25, 2021

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Chapter 4: Sunday blues & Netto treats

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Julia Pollock

Julia Pollock

Semi-retired leadership coach, music lover & passionate traveller from N.East of England. New to writing but loving how blogging is keeping me (sort of) sane.

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