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033 The Book of Job

clhwindsor — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:11:53 GMT

I am obsessed with the Book of Job in the Christian Bible. There’s a lot of unhinged shit that happens in the Bible, but the Book of Job is the myth that I cannot get out of my head because of how it starts, and what lessons we are to take away from the fable.

Job (pronounced like ‘joab’ with a hard ‘j’) is God’s most faithful servant on Earth. He also h…

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clhwindsor — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:04:55 GMT

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THIS IS WRITE CLUB

clhwindsor — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:13:28 GMT

This Wednesday at 7pm BST, I’ll be running a free WRITE CLUB round.

It’s very simple, but it might not be easy.

You turn up and write.

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1. THE FIRST RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

2. THE SECOND RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

3. THIS ROUND IS BETWEEN 75 - 90 MINUTES

4. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE THING TO DO: WRITE.

5. YOU HAVE TO WRITE.

032 The Cat Distribution System

clhwindsor — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:13:40 GMT

The last time I wrote about the cat I noted that her parents were moving. Just up the road, but moving nonetheless.

I was sad at the time, not just about the thought of losing her company, but for a lot of other reasons as well.

After they announced they were moving, they also asked me if I would be interested in being “more than the fun auntie”, a role …

THIS IS WRITE CLUB

clhwindsor — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 16:01:53 GMT

Wednesday at 7pm BST, I’ll be running a free WRITE CLUB round.

It’s very simple, but it might not be easy.

You turn up and write.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE!

1. THE FIRST RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

2. THE SECOND RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

3. THIS ROUND IS BETWEEN 75 - 90 MINUTES

4. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE THING TO DO: WRITE.

5. YOU HAVE TO WRITE.

THIS IS WRITE CLUB

clhwindsor — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:11:34 GMT

On Wednesday, 16th July, 2025, at 7pm BST, I’m going to run a free WRITE CLUB round.

It’s very simple, but it might not be easy.

You turn up and write.

CLICK HERE TO BOOK YOUR PLACE!

1. THE FIRST RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

2. THE SECOND RULE OF WRITE CLUB IS: WE WRITE.

3. THIS ROUND IS BETWEEN 75 - 90 MINUTES

4. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE THING TO DO: WRITE.

5. YOU HAVE TO WRITE.

031 I Don't Have A Cat

clhwindsor — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:11:22 GMT

I wasn’t going to post this week.

Everything I have drafted is sitting in the Perfcetionist Pile where I fret over whether it’s clever enough, or witty enough, or enough enough, whether anyone cares, whether someone cares, whether I want to save stuff and try for some sort of essay type thing, whether it’s too long, too short, too too too. It’s nonsense.

030 Shame

clhwindsor — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:11:16 GMT

On the 8^th of May this year I did the softest of soft launches for my Creativity Considered project that I have been working on since July 2024. It’s an examination of creativity, and especially what people say about getting our creativity unstuck because I needed to get unstuck.

I sent the link to a few trusted friends who know my non-fiction and fictio…

00 Side Quest

Wed, 14 May 2025 10:13:10 GMT

Hello Friend,

I wanted to let you know that I very quietly launched another Substack focussed on exploring creativity, and how to get unstuck.

Creativity Considered actually started in 2024, when I had stopped working on two creative projects I was very close to finishing. Don’t get me wrong, I still very much care about those projects, but I was puzzled …

029 I Don't Have A Cat

clhwindsor — Wed, 07 May 2025 12:11:19 GMT

Nearly a year after I moved here some neighbours moved in with a cat. After a few months they asked if I could look after their cat as their pet sitter had fallen through at the last minute. I agreed, of course, because I love cats. I would’ve had my own by then, but I didn’t feel my house was very cat friendly yet.

I was told this was an outdoor cat. A…

028 No News Is Good News

clhwindsor — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:11:18 GMT

On 4 April 2025 I had a conversation about the state of the global economy with a friend who is an economist. (An actual, works-for-a-central-bank kind of economist.) They said, and I quote, “we’ve all collectively given up”.

We agreed that looking at the news was not helping. It’s rarely reporting, it’s mostly reacting, and that doesn’t actually help an…

027 Perfcetionism

clhwindsor — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:11:56 GMT

I’ve never considered myself to be a perfectionist.

To me, perfectionists are very neat. I am anything but neat. My desk is actually a nest. Full of what might seem like random mess, but is actually evidence that I’ve been here. Pens, make-up, facial wipes, headphones, pimple patches, books, Vicks vapour rub, antiseptic wipes, hair brush, cables, hand sa…

026 Disability

clhwindsor — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:13:54 GMT

I have been working on a different post, but I haven’t been able to finish it in time. It is about a topic I have found fascinating for many, many, many years, and each time I sit down to write it I feel like I need to dig deeper, give it more thought and care, be more thorough. This is a small, tangential, part of it.

Something came up these last two we…

025 '1984'

clhwindsor — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:31:32 GMT

I was chatting with a friend about re-reading George Orwell’s ‘1984’. She’d recently started to do it, but had to put it down “because it was so grim”. I confessed that back around 2017/2018 I had also tried to re-read it. I’d loved it as a teenager and younger adult, and given what was happening in the UK at the time I thought it might be worth a re-re…

024 Hard to Be a God

clhwindsor — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:37:53 GMT

After last post’s mention of ‘Hard to Be a God’ I thought I would revisit the story and consider it a bit more.

The book was first published in Russian in 1964, then English in 1973. There are two film versions: one from 1989, which I haven’t seen, and another from 2013 which I have seen and what I refer to in this post. The book is generally considered …

023 The Power of Three

clhwindsor — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:52:46 GMT

It has been a while.

Yeah, I’ve had shit going on that I haven’t really wanted to talk about. Given what I am prepared to talk about that means that I probably haven’t fully processed it all yet, and it will most likely take me some time to do that, and maybe then I’ll write about it. Maybe. But for now, let’s look at the power of three.

Throughout histor…

022 Sports Ball

clhwindsor — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 11:13:14 GMT

Content Warning: This post talks about homophobia and contains homophobic slurs.

I’m pretty sure anyone who knows me doesn’t know that I do enjoy watching sport. I’m not good at sport, was never good at sport. I was incredibly uncoordinated as a child, was definitely picked last on teams, if at all. The only thing I enjoyed doing was dancing. I wasn’t pa…

021 Soraidh leibh 2023

clhwindsor — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:13:17 GMT

As I said last year, this part of the year - the perineum of the year - is my least favourite time of the year. Some kind of limbo between the world stopping and starting again. It has the Trinity of Awkwardness: Christmas, New Year, and my birthday, all within the space of 3 weeks. I tend to ignore all of these events.

So, let’s look at some highlights …

020 Reality / Fiction

clhwindsor — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:11:36 GMT

It’s been a while.

I’ve been making my home in Scotland. I feel very lucky to be here.

For the last few weeks I, like many others, have been struggling to “create content” because, if you’re aware of anything going on in the world right now, it just seems asinine to do anything other than bear witness and use whatever time and/or money you have wisely.

I…

019 The last snow

clhwindsor — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 10:13:10 GMT

I often think about the day when the last snow will fall.

I might have been about 3 or 4 years old when I first saw snow. It wasn’t something that ever occurred in the Queensland tropical climate. We had to travel to it. My immediate family had gone on a holiday down the east coast of Australia, then swung right and headed for South Australia. We drove b…