June 7, 2010 
For a birthday a couple of years ago, I was given a beautiful piece of furniture, an apothecary chest. It is a beautiful chest, both to look at and use, and also because I know it was made ethically in Indonesia using sustainable mango wood. It has lots of drawers in which to store things [...]
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The doctor found a lump. In my breast. ‘It’s unlikely to be cancer,’ she said immediately as I sat in slight shock, my feet swinging over the edge of the examination table like a small child. ‘However I will be referring you straight away.’ And then I went home as if nothing had happened. Except [...]

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