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$Held on with a copious amount of Command stripes and a prayer 🙏 Only took about 7 months living here to finally start on my gallery wall in my room. First cluster is a few postcards from some of my favourite trips abroad (Berlin, India, and Montreal), plus a art piece I bought from a local artist in New York and my first macrame attempt! Any tips from people on where to get fun quirky frames and relatively cheap mount boards? I\'d normally source them out of charity shops but obviously not many are open atm 🤷$
$Salt air, and the rust on your door // I never needed anything more 🎶 Very much excited at the prospect at moodily wandering through the woods listening to @TaylorSwift\'s #folklore in the rain at some point. What a freaking, magical masterpiece of an album ✨$
$Friendly neighborhood reminder that whilst it\'s still not mandatory to wear a mask you should just get ahead and wear one anyway now. Make sure it fits snugly around your nose and mouth at all times. If using a fabric one make sure it\'s at least triple layered/uses a filter. If your using disposables actually dispose of them properly (as if single use plastic isn\'t enough of an issue these days). Remember to take them off from the ear loops, don\'t touch the outside of it, and wash after every use. Yes, there are exemptions for people who have trouble breathing or young children etc. Yes, it won\'t completely protect you from getting a Covid. Yes, they\'re annoying and uncomfortable and claustrophobic. BUT the majority of us CAN wear them. So let\'s stop making excuses. In the words of one Michelle Visage \'Its just a piece of fabric\' 😷 Mask: @hanaandbona$
$Took this last year and am missing normality something terrible today. But even as things are seemingly starting to open up and return to normal I\'m choosing to stay cautious. I\'m choosing to wear a mask every time I leave my house. I\'m choosing to risk assess every interaction not only for myself and my household but for others. If the UK government are adamant about us, the public, to use common sense then I\'m using mine. And I hope you use yours too.$
$When you cook a Keralan fish curry so good it\'s worthy of it\'s own Instagram post 💁 Three-ish months into lockdown and I do still find cooking pretty therapeutic (though there has been the occasional takeaway/ready meal cause I\'m only human) and people are always surprised that I don\'t really like religiously following recipes. I definitely come from the school of chuck stuff in, taste as you go along, and watch your pans. I don\'t measure anything either. I think that kind of chaotic energy stresses a lot of people out soz 😅$
$Celebrating the 4th July and Hamilton\'s release to Disney+ with a #throwback snap I took back in 2016 in New York ⭐ This was pre-Tony Awards sweep but well into it\'s opening at the Richard Rogers. I think I attempted the digital lotto for tickets about four times and almost cried outside of a Starbucks because I didn\'t get them 😅 It would be another two years till I\'d get to see the show in London. And now after FOUR years I\'ll finally get to see THIS original Broadway cast 🙌$
$Anyone else feeling just very...weird at the moment? With all these lockdown restrictions easing but equally feeling like this is all too soon, whilst also desperately wanting to see family, but also still scared of a second wave, but also just wanting to go about without performing some odd form of parkour to avoid walking into people, then also wanting to hit people with a 1 metre measuring stick and spraying antiseptic at them. I feel cooped up but also fine with staying home if it means keeping others safe for longer. Idk this was a ramble, so feel to brain dump things in the comments if you\'re feeling a type of way too 💞$
$Father\'s Day hits differently this year. Feeling especially grateful my Dad has been recovering well and home with Mum today. Even though I can\'t be with him this year after everything that\'s happened the past few months, I\'m just thankful he\'s still here. I realise that\'s a really privileged thing and my heart goes out to anyone who\'ll be struggling today and any day without their Father figures 💕$

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$Held on with a copious amount of Command stripes and a prayer 🙏 Only took about 7 months living here to finally start on my gallery wall in my room. First cluster is a few postcards from some of my favourite trips abroad (Berlin, India, and Montreal), plus a art piece I bought from a local artist in New York and my first macrame attempt! Any tips from people on where to get fun quirky frames and relatively cheap mount boards? I\'d normally source them out of charity shops but obviously not many are open atm 🤷$
$Salt air, and the rust on your door // I never needed anything more 🎶 Very much excited at the prospect at moodily wandering through the woods listening to @TaylorSwift\'s #folklore in the rain at some point. What a freaking, magical masterpiece of an album ✨$
$Friendly neighborhood reminder that whilst it\'s still not mandatory to wear a mask you should just get ahead and wear one anyway now. Make sure it fits snugly around your nose and mouth at all times. If using a fabric one make sure it\'s at least triple layered/uses a filter. If your using disposables actually dispose of them properly (as if single use plastic isn\'t enough of an issue these days). Remember to take them off from the ear loops, don\'t touch the outside of it, and wash after every use. Yes, there are exemptions for people who have trouble breathing or young children etc. Yes, it won\'t completely protect you from getting a Covid. Yes, they\'re annoying and uncomfortable and claustrophobic. BUT the majority of us CAN wear them. So let\'s stop making excuses. In the words of one Michelle Visage \'Its just a piece of fabric\' 😷 Mask: @hanaandbona$
$Took this last year and am missing normality something terrible today. But even as things are seemingly starting to open up and return to normal I\'m choosing to stay cautious. I\'m choosing to wear a mask every time I leave my house. I\'m choosing to risk assess every interaction not only for myself and my household but for others. If the UK government are adamant about us, the public, to use common sense then I\'m using mine. And I hope you use yours too.$
$When you cook a Keralan fish curry so good it\'s worthy of it\'s own Instagram post 💁 Three-ish months into lockdown and I do still find cooking pretty therapeutic (though there has been the occasional takeaway/ready meal cause I\'m only human) and people are always surprised that I don\'t really like religiously following recipes. I definitely come from the school of chuck stuff in, taste as you go along, and watch your pans. I don\'t measure anything either. I think that kind of chaotic energy stresses a lot of people out soz 😅$
$Celebrating the 4th July and Hamilton\'s release to Disney+ with a #throwback snap I took back in 2016 in New York ⭐ This was pre-Tony Awards sweep but well into it\'s opening at the Richard Rogers. I think I attempted the digital lotto for tickets about four times and almost cried outside of a Starbucks because I didn\'t get them 😅 It would be another two years till I\'d get to see the show in London. And now after FOUR years I\'ll finally get to see THIS original Broadway cast 🙌$
$Anyone else feeling just very...weird at the moment? With all these lockdown restrictions easing but equally feeling like this is all too soon, whilst also desperately wanting to see family, but also still scared of a second wave, but also just wanting to go about without performing some odd form of parkour to avoid walking into people, then also wanting to hit people with a 1 metre measuring stick and spraying antiseptic at them. I feel cooped up but also fine with staying home if it means keeping others safe for longer. Idk this was a ramble, so feel to brain dump things in the comments if you\'re feeling a type of way too 💞$
$Father\'s Day hits differently this year. Feeling especially grateful my Dad has been recovering well and home with Mum today. Even though I can\'t be with him this year after everything that\'s happened the past few months, I\'m just thankful he\'s still here. I realise that\'s a really privileged thing and my heart goes out to anyone who\'ll be struggling today and any day without their Father figures 💕$

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