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R to @BootstrapCook: (Sorry for the long, late reply! Was woken by what turned out to be a very long phone call and couldn’t resist a quick peek at Twitter before going back to sleep 😴)

 
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R to @FoodProfessor: Do you think it’s appropriate for grocery shops to inflate prices beyond the affordability of their own low paid workers? Or for people who stack the shelves to be resorting to food banks? Or for anyone to be desperate enough to risk a criminal record because they’re starving? 😳

 
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R to @merje_shaw: Clothes in baskets on the bottom 2 shelves of bookcases, rare stuff that needs hanging on hooks on the back of the door. Makeup in the hall in a narrow desk drawer. Not moved yet but have ‘moved’ the rooms around here a few times to test out storage solutions and expectations.

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: It’s been months in the planning - and you do need a v sturdy comfy couch. I use a single mattress topper, flat sheet, and single duvet. In the morning I roll the topper/duvet into sausages and wedge them at either end of the couch to make it a living space again 🥰

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: While chortling at the conspiracy theorists who think I have squirrelled millions in a secret vault somewhere - I’m literally sofa surfing in my own house ffs 🛋 🏄‍♀️ 😆

 
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Gave notice to my landlord today that I won’t be renewing the tenancy when it’s up in a month. Thanked them for the loan of their beautiful family home for the last 4 years and all the stability, security and joy it’s brought my little family. Having some feelings tonight 💔❤️‍🩹

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: It’s the right thing for me and SB, although it’s going to be one hell of an adjustment (new place is about 1/4 of the size of this one) and I thought we’d be here almost forever, but, emotional and financial breathing space awaits, if slightly less of the physical variety. 😬

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: And one of the very first things I will carry over the threshold of our new home will be a cutting from the hydrangea that my dear sweet boy bought me for my birthday a few years ago. From the old to the new, to begin again, again. (And now I’m crying.)

 
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R to @ayn9_: They’ve been really good to us. I’ve had over 20 landlords in my short lifetime and these have been by far one of the best.

 
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R to @MsCarolKitch: We’re making them a hamper of goodies for moving out day. They really have been very good to us in some very challenging times, and in my extensive experience, that is extraordinarily rare.

 
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R to @pokedauxll: It was ‘sty’ because I was disorganised, chaotic, a hoarder, and an alcoholic who wasn’t in recovery at the time. The home itself is beautiful. The way I lived in it back then was not. (It’ll be immaculate before I move out, I was raised by very very tidy parents!)

 
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R to @BootstrapCook: PS, trolls coming for me on this post where I’m clearly vulnerable? No I haven’t always been gracious about being here: it’s been rocky, severe alcoholism, trauma, PTSD, a serious breakup, financial difficulties, etc.

I try to live with gratitude in recovery. Try it, it’s nice.

 
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R to @FennieBee: Everything’s overpriced when struggling.
I got the broken breezy door fixed.
And the damp.
And put thermal curtains and draught excluders everywhere.

From one of my fave daily readings: ‘When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away’

 
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R to @ayn9_: They’re not portfolio landlords, it was an inheritance from a dc parent AFAIK. I think I’ve been their only tenant, which might be why they’re so nice! I have no time for the slumlord scumbags, but these are decent folks who have cut me slack when needed and let us make a home.💕

 
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R to @fran_odriscoll: And I you, Fran. May your life be blessed with good things always x

 
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