COVID-19
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The end is near*
*or nearer than before. Next Monday will be my birthday. The second to be celebrated in significant restrictions as a result of COVID-19. Back at the start of all of this, in March of 2020, people said it would take two years to get through and out the otherside. We’re already well into a year…
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Indoor Passtimes
It’s winter in Melbourne, we had the shortest day of the year yesterday and the weather is getting chillier. I have always like cooking, and the cold weather seems to be bringing out my European peasant roots (my Dad’s family is German and I’m going to pretend that’s what it is). I ordered a box…
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Déjà vu all over again
It feels like it’s been a while since I wrote anything here. I haven’t written much on my other projects either, unfortunately. I’m sure a lot of you out there will identify with my frustration with the continuing pandemic situation. Melbourne went into our first lock down in March 2020, and we’ve just entered another…
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NaNoWriMo 2020
This year will be the ninth time I am attempting NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month. My first time was in 2012 and I have won, reached my goal of 50,000 words, every year since then. I work best with external encouragement and deadlines, and while NaNoWriMo is an (almost) entirely self motivated endeavour it…
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Cabin fever
I sit, my belly boils with nervousness dissatisfied with the smallness of life with loneliness with my poetry Outside, everything is dark hide inside, afraid or not afraid enough I watch people walking around anxious on their behalf I am a worrier, overthink everything, don’t know how to turn it off. How will I stay…
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Das ist verboten
It’s been nearly four months since I was hit by a car. Some of you may be surprised to know that I’m still hobbling around on crutches, although I am rid of the moon boot as of last week. I need one further surgery to get all the metal taken out, it was supposed to…
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I’m gonna be over here…
…doing my own thing, 1.5m away from any other people. So we’re all totally over-loaded with COVID-19 pandemic content, so I’m going to try not to talk about that too much, but it’s changed everything for everyone for the foreseeable future. One of the things that has changed for me is what I want to…
Fleur Blüm 