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Annette Laing's avatar

Your advice is spot on. Cooking solitary vegan meals and retreating often sounds good to me, but I'm old and getting picky about food. 😂 Kid needs to try being a little less austere, seize the day!

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Lynn Childress's avatar

Thank you for saying that about the advice. Being high in agreeableness, I tend to avoid giving advice or stating opinions, perhaps more than I should.

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Kathy Harker's avatar

Good for you for getting into the design work. I did see the design for the sheets and especially liked the one with rain drops. I will look forward to more writing from you when you feel inspired. ❤️

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Kathy Harker's avatar

I hope you haven’t stopped writing your posts. I miss your voice.

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Lynn Childress's avatar

I have not stopped writing, but I have stopped publishing. Right now, I am focused on doing design work. However, I left the door here at Substack open, in case I want to come back.

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Jeffrey Streeter's avatar

A really moving post. You manage to bring back a lot of memories have made me think about the comparison between my arrival at Oxford and my younger son's arrival at the same college there many years later. Like you, I have good and bad memories of the place. Your skill in threading two stories together has really helped me to reflect on what I learnt, what I failed to learn. Thank you.

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Lynn Childress's avatar

I hope that you will write about some of your experiences at Oxford. The cross-college comparisons are especially interesting to me. For example, we didn't have college dads at Keble. We had moral tutors.

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Robert Maynord's avatar

Just finished watching a Merry Berry cooking show on BBC. Big Food and Big Socializing are key themes. Your mention of the common cooked dinner makes me long for family & community comforts....

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Lynn Childress's avatar

I found both when I was recently in the US. Maybe time to return to Grace?

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Kathy Harker's avatar

I love this comparison between your experiences at Oxford and Ruby’s. Her Vlogs are very interesting and uplifting. I am drawn in by her freshness and enthusiasm. Looking forward to reading more about you both.

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Lynn Childress's avatar

Ruby has many videos on her YouTube channel. You might like "A Cozy Weekend in the Scottish Isles." Her mother also writes a blog called 'What a Palaver' under the pen name Clara Raven (https://www.whatapalaver.co/). I think I would enjoy hanging out with her parents. They both look familiar to me, but I can't remember where I have seen them.

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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

That was great! I guess you got pregnant in that single bed because there wasn't enough room for two people...

I loved the university vibe and hung out at the Auckland university as detailed in my story worzel wez. They always had a week at the start of the year called orientation which was one big party!

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Lynn Childress's avatar

Lol. You always seem to find a way of making me laugh.

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Obsidian Blackbird.'s avatar

I used to be a comedian back in the day in NZ. I gave up that dream to lug slate up ladders in the scorching Auzzie sun - or cut and fold copper in the Arctic freeze of Canada. Best move I ever made.. not.

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