Publishing elsewhere....

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Silly post... I realise some of my blogs are massive, so I'm going to start posting shorter tit-bits! 

So here I am in last weekend's Guardian Saturday magazine, seems nobody noticed at all, admittedly was only in the 'Letters' section... 


All true... except the ice-cream man didn't use the word 'sodding', in actuality it was the F word!  

xx Emma-Lou

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