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Stevie Mackenzie-Smith

@dconfusion

Writer. Thinking about time, work and compost. Archiving and transcribing my granny's diaries spanning 55 years. Did @layerspodcast (she/her)

 From Bristol. Now Norwich, UK
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Joined February 2009
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Compost postcards! Set of 5 postcards, iPhone photos of my compost heap taken from 2020 onwards. Printed on silk paper for you and your pen pals. steviemackenziesmith.bigcart…
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Obsessed with these intensely booming daily storms
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Just saw a cyclist wearing a high-vis bike seat cover as a hat go past and it really made me laugh. Love to leave the house for my strange little everyday treats.
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Strong hankering to go to Claire’s and buy myself sparkly hair clips. Soon, as a little post-Covid energy-to-walk-into-town treat.
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I'm planning a road trip from New York to Vermont 🥰 and looking for reccs for nice things to do and places to visit in Hudson / Catskills. Any tips?
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Ideally I'd like to do a mix of proper relaxing (reading, swimming?, generally Being while enjoying beautiful views), eating delicious things and visiting galleries/archives/shops and things I can't normally see in the UK.
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The more time passes, the more I cannot be bothered running around doing the things I 'should' see while on holiday. So in that vein... are places like Dia Beacon worth it? (I have a preconception it's maybe insufferable but that may not be fair)
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In the spirit of financial transparency in publishing, I built a little web calculator to help trad pub authors calculate how many copies they need to sell to earn out their advance. Link below ⬇️
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Someone's written me a v. nice (and I'm told true!) letter of support for an application. It's reminded me of the 'compliments' book I kept when I was a teen having a shit time at school...❤️‍🩹
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I used to read it whenever I was low and just feeling like school was horrible and endless, and it alwayss pepped me up. Thinking I should start a Letters of Support equivalent for the adult who carries little Stevie around <3
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It's why I love to earnestly email people about their work when I love it, it's such a small, easy thing to do. And who doesn't love to hear it?
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I've booked a trip to the States to visit my late granny's BFF and record her memories of their friendship 💖💖💖
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This is art.
Tim Dunn (@MrTimDunn) profile pictureTim Dunn
@MrTimDunn21 Apr 2023
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One of the best things about railway enthusiasts… is enthusiasm. It is pure, unwavering and wonderful. So, please enjoy the happiness and contentment of those on King’s Cross Platform 7 today, with a backing track all Deltic enthusiasts surely know: the Get Carter theme.
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"You will not learn how to get rid of your grief but rather live and expand with it." I Forbid You to Forget Me by Daniela Spector for Syllabus Project is beautiful on processing death in the everyday. A 5 month grief syllabus: syllabusproject.org/i-forbid…
I Forbid You to Forget Me

I Forbid You to Forget Me

I Forbid You to Forget Me by Daniela Spector Introduction:  On August 24, 2019, about a week before my trip to Hawaii to celebrate my husband’s 30th birthday, I got a call from my dad. Mom had a st…

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Friends fear she's blogging again steviemackenziesmith.com/blo…
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Have spent the last couple of months having lots of fun, making things, throwing things at the wall, trying to recover from (years??) of burnout and basically attending a school I've created for myself.
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I've created a new Instagram account (my personal one has been private for years) where I'm channelling Old Internet vibes. No hot takes, outrage or trying to be cool. "I am cringe but I am free" instagram.com/steviemackenzi…
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Loved this fascinating #DeepTimeUK talk with artist #ruthewan and horologist @KeithScobie. Feat mind-bending concept of decimal time (10-hour day), ghost footprints left by workers winding Big Ben and the vegetation named in the French republican calendar.
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This episode was so good. Lucy, we are begging you... a @leckerpodcast series about the history of office lunches and the cursed respectability politics of eating in public. For your fans.
Cursed Objects (@CursedObjectsUK) profile pictureCursed Objects@CursedObjectsUK21 Mar 2023
Why is British lunch culture getting a dry MEAL DEAL from a chemist?? Thanks to @dearlucy of @leckerpodcast for guiding us through supermarket sushi, mossy sarnies and the ‘illusion of choice’ offered by the most underwhelming lunch imaginable.. spotify.link/FTGtOAqXlyb
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