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#50 🐦 The cry of the COMBAT animal 🥋

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The importance of a kihap with gravitas * Art: Collab your way to a harmonious household * Advice: One must never unwittingly sound like a goose * Practical: An ironclad pet-name-choosing method for you From the journal 📖 The kihap is an important part of taekwondo, where you support your physical

Richard Allardice May 28, 2022

#49 🦤 Birds aren’t REAL 🤖

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Birds aren’t real * Art: The cardification of household artwork * Advice: There are many mothers out there – be prepared * New: Upcoming goodness for this newsletter of ours From the journal 📖 Every cafe was booked out on Mother’s Day, which is a problem for people who don’

Richard Allardice May 13, 2022

#48 🎨 Colour outside the LINES ➰

In brief 🩲 1. From the journal: Fencing at Hogwarts, unable to “armour” 2. Feast your eyes: Tattoo flowers, eventually without lines 3. Advice that’s better than bad – it’s good: Shower curtain curtails genius 4. You can do this: A timeline for off-scale happiness From the journal 📖 After a

Richard Allardice May 7, 2022

#47 🏝 Attainment of the SUBLIME 🍀

Faith in humanity: Partially restored Last year I wrote about a housesitter – Digby – gone bad. All of the housesitters we’d had look after our place to that point had been great, but this one was a BAD EGG, and failed us in spectacular fashion. Up until the Digby incident

Richard Allardice Apr 30, 2022

#46 🐶 Creatures of HABITS 🐈‍⬛

In brief 🩲 * If you’re not really a pet person the road to becoming one can be tough. * My wife Vic adores hot drinks but tends to lose them faster than she drinks them. I am the hot-drink support guy in our relationship. * There’ll be no newsletter next week,

Richard Allardice Apr 17, 2022

#45 ⛵️ When you sail a little too close to the DEADLINE ☠️

Doogie Howser, M.D. had all the answers I watched a lot of Doogie Howser, M.D. as a kid. My favourite part of each episode was when he sat down at his computer to compose a digital diary entry. The white cursor would blink on that blue screen and

Richard Allardice Apr 6, 2022

#44 🔨 Who says it’s a WASTE of time? ⏳

In brief 🩲 * Not all time can be valuable, and it’s probably important to waste some time * Trying not to waste water might make your hot drinks taste weird * A teacher who takes students to a waste treatment plant for science certainly must have all the answers * Maybe video games

Richard Allardice Mar 25, 2022

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