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Apr 20Liked by Tamsin Chennell

I think number two was my favourite too. So glad those mushrooms are working some magic 🍄

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So thought 2 was when I had a few moments of a lifting of the fog, when words worked a little. It still doesn’t describe exactly what is was like. The effort taken to even find 8 words for thought 1 was huge and took me over an hour and a thesaurus to find the words cos I couldn’t remember them until I saw /read them. Thought 2 came in 10 mins without any of that.

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Apr 24Liked by Tamsin Chennell

A very fabulous summing up of brain fog! I've also tried writing poems to describe it, but failed, might have another go - I also love that unsplash image, very visual descriptor... sorry, my words aren't working this morning, but hopefully it made sense enough to you!!

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Oh I understand you completely. Brain fog is a language I’ve become quite fluent in 😂 my words are very cantankerous and capricious beasts at times.

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Apr 22Liked by Tamsin Chennell

Sympathies on the brain fog! It sounds terrible. I don't think I get brain fog, but my migraine meds make my brain feel so slow. Like it's been put in time out for being naughty.

For whatever it's worth, I think they do work together as one piece. Sort of a "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"--but 4, and looking at brain fog. It would make sense not to be able to get to 13!

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I don’t know why I said Nice. What a dumb word!

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Apr 20·edited Apr 20Author

lol. My English teacher banned ‘nice’. But actually in the context you used it it’s a bit urban slang, and works perfectly well. I use noice - cos that’s the way my son says it. Nice is fine. I always imagine a nodding of the head to go along with it, and a gentle inward appreciation.

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I definitely meant it in the urban sense

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“This should really be a blank page” I like how you led with that and the poem was fantastic. Nice.

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Thank you

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