Jack Monroe - Bootstrapcook

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R to @HenryMullen500: You’re right, I didn’t do either. Expelled from school at 16, went to work in a chip shop.

 
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RT by @BootstrapCook: Some people feel most themselves or most comfortable within hostile interactions, and will attempt to get you to join them. It’s ok to decline the invitation. There’s confidence in owning your energy.

 
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R to @Thenetworker2: Aye well funnily enough none of it was exactly news to them!

 
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R to @j0nj86: I started an OU degree when I was in the fire service (they encouraged us all to do so as part of our PQAs/PD). I quit it when I left because I couldn’t afford it any more. That help? So no, I didn’t go to uni, and I didn’t finish the degree. Neither did I claim to have.

 
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R to @DaveyJayZ: Referral from the school, Ed Psych assessment at school, further psych assessment at home with both parents present, further assessment at home without parents present, diagnosis, recommendation I switch schools, nearest one was in Kent so entirely unworkable, and so life went on

 
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R to @Littlegiteshob: 1. I didn’t drink when I was in poverty, I couldn’t afford to. Simons article makes that explicitly clear.

2. I wasn’t drinking when I wrote that blog post, nor when I fell behind on patreon, because I’ve been 18 months sober now.

3. I haven’t done any reckless spending sober.

 
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R to @MarthaBtd1: I could have phrased it better, at the time I had paused it thinking I would pick it back up when I was working again. That didn’t work out. Clumsy phrasing, sure, but deliberately misleading? No.

 
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R to @Tyrinic: Parents kidnapped me for a family roast dinner. They served gammon

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: And can I have some kudos for not replying ‘I hope you have a contingency plan for my teeth, because they don’t burn down so good’ (I really MUST start reading a new genre of novels…)

 
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R to @Adela_Terrell: Yep. ‘D- for effort, needs more work. See me after class’

 
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R to @Tyrinic: Careful, I’ve heard that book is Dangerous with a Capital D!

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: (It was the head of pastoral care who made the referral)

 
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R to @flareaudio: Do you make eyeplugs for blocking out all of the nonsense on the internet? If not, fancy diversifying?! 😎

 
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R to @nicky_cky_: As I’ve said multiple times, every essay & interview has been a snapshot of exactly where I’ve been at that moment in time. And in my line of work, things change - for better and for worse - in a phone call. It’s 3814 days since Hunger Hurts went viral. 3814 very different days.

 
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The end-of-last-year surprise book deal I refer to in that Guardian article, the ‘not a lifechanging thing but a situation changing one’ was a memoir. Given the obsessive interest in every minute of my lifetime, I’m surprised my publisher doesn’t have a pre-order link up already.

 
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