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Sorry Pixar, Onward left me looking backwards

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This weekend was a miserable milestone for British politics. We saw a desperately defiant Prime Minister and his cabinet work harder in three days to save the job of one special adviser, Dominic 'No Regrets' Cummings , than helping the country fighting a deadly disease in more than three months.  So I thought I would cheer myself up with a Disney-Pixar movie. What could go wrong? SPOILERS BELOW

Oh bloody hell, she's back

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Hello again, it has been eight years since my last confession post. The reasons are myriad; buying my first home, working and managing to lock myself out for a few years. The blog. Not the flat. Add to the mix, pesky appendicitis (2016) and a catastrophic knee injury (2018) resulting in some not-very-happy-thoughts, (2016-) , I have been less than willing to put myself out there for scrutiny. (Possibly my favourite video this year so far - best sums up 2020 and earphones recommended) I outright refused to share my mental health troubles online, which in hindsight colossally backfired; I instead buried them in food, drink and comfort sleeping. And sinking myself into so much on-demand content, my brain resembles The Oasis from  Ready Player One.  So instead, I focused on work writing content for theatre websites, led projects in website journalism and property news and most worked as a digital sub-editor recently at a national newspaper, right up until COVID-19 came in a...