Happy Birthday to My Mother - The Monster


Carrie Cohen covered in blood.

Mums, eh? One minute they're teaching you how to read and write, the next minute you're teaching them how to video call casting directors during quarantine. You see, my mum is an actress. When people ask "what sort" - I could tell them about the award winning short films she has been in. Or the London theatre productions she's starred in. Or the TV commercials you've almost certainly seen. Instead, I show people the photo I have stored as her phone contact. Somehow, my mum has found a niche …

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How should couples handle joint email addresses?


Terence and Liz in front of Lasers at emfcamp.

For years, my email address was registered with our electricity supplier. I got the monthly bills sent to me. My wife's email was used for the water supplier. This made sense when we were a young couple with separate finances - but now we're a smug an old married couple, with a joint bank account, it's a bit annoying. We both want to see the bills, and we don't want to rely on the other forwarding us an email, or sticking the PDF into a shared folder. Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentCouples …

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