Find fulfilment as you pay the bills! Inspiration, tips and advice from @queenchristina_ and guests about how to build a work life that brings joy. Podcast etc
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"We are fine, and as hale and hearty as people can be when they have swapped the doctor’s traditional advice for an aperitivo a day. The trouble is this: that while I am fine, quite a few of my friends are not."
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LOVELY EVENT ALERT! Will you be in London on Thursday 21st March? If so, do come and join me and the award-winning violinist @fhvln for an evening of soul music (and words) at Lauderdale House in Highgate. I think it will be fab!: lauderdalehouse.org.uk/whats…
"It would be lovely if films of hairy bottoms and lying in bed yelling for peace stopped people like Putin, Hamas and Netanyahu from slaughtering innocent people." My latest @substack newsletter is on Bach, Yoko Ono and what it takes to be great.
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My latest @substack newsletter (free to read and subscribe) is on what I've learnt from Mimi Khalvati, who was last week awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry by @RoyalFamily and is published by @Carcanet. We have been friends for more than 30 years.
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"Air travel feels like punishment for some crime no one has bothered to tell you about, but a long car journey feels like an adventure." My latest @Substack newsletter on car journeys, cakes and joy. It's FREE to subscribe:
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“I signed up for the Zoe app, wore the contraption, did the tests and subscribed to it for about six months, but apparently you actually have to change what you eat for it to make a difference."
My first @Substack of the year offers some bracing advice:open.substack.com/pub/christ…
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"We both cried when it ended. If we could, we would have tap-danced to the Tube. Unfortunately, my shoes were pinching and I was feeling slightly sick."
My latest @Substack on why we need to see people in pink tutus doing the splits. FREE to subscribe:
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Christmas gift suggestion! If anyone you know has had a bit of a tough time, my book The Art of Not Falling Apart might cheer them up. It was described by one newspaper as "a manual on how to survive in the 21st-century". And apparently it's quite funny:
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If you're looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for a friend, may I humbly suggest my family memoir, Outside, the Sky is Blue? The reviews called it "heart-lifting", "a hymn to optimism", "compelling" and "beautiful". It may cheer someone up!
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I'm devastated to hear this. He was such a brilliant, lovely man. Whenever I met or interviewed him, he was stopped by people who wanted him to know what he meant to them. RIP, wonderful Benjamin.
British poet Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65 theguardian.com/books/2023/d…
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@Substack newsletters, as if reaching readers in this media-saturated world wasn't already hard enough. Anyway, here it is. It's about curtains, redundancy and career change, and it's FREE to subscribe christinapatterson.substack.…
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"Should brain surgery be “accessible”? An equal-opportunity career that anyone can pursue after watching a few videos on Tik Tok? Or being an airline pilot?"
My latest newsletter. It's FREE!
On joy, struggle and the perfect cocktail, by @queenchristina_ open.substack.com/pub/christ…
I'm really looking forward to this. All three have been guests on my podcast, @theartofwork and I'm sure it will be fascinating.
It's tomorrow! I'm delighted to be doing an event about loss and grief in life and work with the wonderful @drkathrynmannix and #JuliaSamuel. For FREE tickets, register here:
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On Saturday, I went to my first ever Shabbat service. Yesterday, I went to a reading of Seamus Heaney's letters. Both gave me hope.
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The rabbi, the poet - and the castle of flames, by @queenchristina_ open.substack.com/pub/christ…
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Thursday lunchtime (1-2pm) this week! It will be brilliant and it is FREE @SomersetFT @SWLibraries
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Have you ever wanted to write about your life? This is your chance! I’ll be running an online workshop on the joys of life writing, drawing on my experience of writing two memoirs as well as my journalism, on Thursday lunchtime and it’s FREE!! Details below.
We really excited to be able to offer places on this author event with @queenchristina_ for free (or a donation) on behalf of @SomNHS_KLS 😊
Simply head to the link in the tweet below and enter NHSCPWORKSHOP when prompted to secure your place - spaces are limited, so book soon!
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I have always known that I was lucky to be born in the UK. But with everything going on now – Ukraine, Israel & Palestine, effects of global warning – I increasingly feel like some cocooned aristocrat living a comfortable life while all hell is breaking loose outside my castle.
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How do you think @RishiSunak has done in his first year in office? I’ll be presenting my report card on the PM on @theJeremyVine to @TinaDaheley just after 12.30pm. Do join us!
I rarely read a book for pure pleasure, but indulged in this after bumping into @AmandaPCraig the other day. I absolutely LOVED it. It’s about Italy and immigration and ageing and art and beauty and music and suffering and love and joy and life. Do treat yourself! #thethreegraces
"Are we mugs? And is that the great divide? Between people who do as little as they can get away with and people who try to do things well?" My latest @Substack newsletter. It's free to subscribe!
On lies, filth, vermin – and Tories, by @queenchristina_ open.substack.com/pub/christ……
