Over a year later…
by Rachel Kendall
It’s all about beginnings. Right? Re-animations. I was all a-go-go about starting a new blog back in 2014. Then got all wa-hay about getting it going again in 2015. Suddenly it’s 2017 and thanks to Driving in the Dark‘s blog, I feel inspired to write again. When I say write, I mean e-scribble a few words a day. A DAY, you hear?
Things have happened since 2015. Two days ago a suicide bomber in my home town of Manchester killed 22 and injured over 50 more, most were teenage girls. The youngest was 8, the same age as my daughter. In a few minutes I’m accompanying my child’s class on a trip to the local mosque. We will not put up barriers.
In the last 3 weeks three people I know have passed away – my step-dad (though I always called him this, he was technically my dad as I was 2 when my mum got together with him) after years of fighting various ailments; the mother of a good friend who died in her sleep; and the mother of a friend of my daughter’s from the nursery days, who died suddenly of a brain haemorrhage. She was in her mid-40s. So long Barry, Sadie and Fiona. You will be missed.
A couple of months ago I was mugged. My car keys were in my bag. They stole my car.
Got a new car.
Started a part-time Film Studies MA. Thoroughly enjoyable but really, am I mad?
Put the zine Sein und Werden on hiatus for a while.
Discovered Caravan Palace.
Got some pet stick insects.
Continue to have a cat and yes, it turns out I can keep a pet alive.
Let’s have some visuals – Lexi cat/Lexicon/Lexipants:
Rachel Kendall 
Lovely to hear from you again!
Scratching post cat colour-coded!
Warning: be careful with the stick insects, they breed like mad. You find tiny eggs everywhere, then next thing you know, lotsa tiny fellas. (We ended up ditching ours in hedges).
Manchester, yes… too many words being thrown about there, and very few actually sticking. If you get me.
The MA sounds just great (MMU?); stick with it gal!
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Hi Michael. I’m actually studying up the road at the U of Manchester. I work there so I get a staff discount 🙂
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When I started work after leaving school ooo so long ago now, I was a jun lab technician in the dept of botany, williamson blg. I started just as a major student demo was kicking off, saw it from the inside. Put me off such things for life, prob.
Hang on in with the course; I always say sticking with it is by far the hardest part.
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Nice to see you back blogging again!
I’m sorry to hear about your loved ones who have died. It can seem that we go through a whirlwind of losses sometimes… a lot to deal with, before the bombing even happened. I with everyone there the strength they’ll need to live through all this. ❤
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Thanks Ang, not sure how long I’ll keep the blogging up for! And thanks for your kind words. I’m totally proud to be a Mancunian right now, people have been brilliant.
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