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Kiran Sidhu

6 years

It’s the depth of shallowness in which narcissism masquerades as honesty, veracity and feminism. When really it’s about validation & consumerism -where image is King. Astonishing how people are committed to their lack of depth.

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 months

I’d like this to be my writing space at the bottom of a field.

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1 year

This is Jane, my 73-year-old friend. She bought a purple bike, a purple helmet and orange gloves. She married at 70 - after being single for 37 years. She’s full of adventure. She sent this picture to me because I was sad & she wanted to make me smile ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

I’m in the Guardian today with this article about my farmer friend. I hope I’ve managed to capture the glorious simplicity of his life. His life maybe insular, but it is no less full than those of us who feel we need to climb mountains. ⁦ @guardian ⁩

Experience: I’ve had the same supper for 10 years

I have two pieces of fish, an onion, an egg, baked beans and biscuits. Being a farmer means every day is the same

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

I wrote about the 90’s club scene & how MDMA opened up important conversations while we queued for the loo. It was therapy. A golden era of ‘misspent youth’ There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy via @Filtermag_org

There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy

Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth have a tendency to look back ...

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3 years

On Xmas eve my mum died at 62. A doc in scrubs saw me wandering, sat me down & bought me a coffee. A lady holding presents, stopped me, put her presents down & hugged me & asked my mum’s name so she could pray for her. And 7 years later, at xmas, I think about these 2 strangers

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 months

Sometimes I can’t quite believe how much my life has changed. In London I’d be writing in a coffee shop, surrounded by city buzz. Today I walked up a hill, spotted Wilf the farmer in his tractor & yelled across the field: “WILF, I MADE SOME CHERRY CRUMBLE, WOULD YOU LIKE SOME?!”

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

6 days ago I found this 6-week-old kitten lost halfway up a mountain. He was starving and petrified. And now he plays with a ball the neighbour knitted for him, listens to ⁦⁦ @ClassicFM ⁩ & sleeps on a chaise lounge ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

I’m in the Guardian today. Everyone asked me how my unlikely friendship with farmer Wilf, came about. So I wrote about it, naturally…

How my farmer friend Wilf gave me a new perspective

It was a breath of fresh air after my turbulent city life, says Kiran Sidhu

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

OK everyone. Just spoke to Wilf. The onion is sliced & fried. The fish is battered. The biscuits are chocolate. The paste in his sarnies: beef #wilf @guardian

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

I have an article out today in ⁦⁦ @ObserverUK ⁩ Hope you all like it 🌺 #Wales #CountryLiving #Countryside #RuralWales

‘What’s a girl like me doing in a Welsh valley?’: Kiran Sidhu on rural life

Kiran Sidhu always thought of herself as a Londoner. But after her mum died, she moved to rural Wales in search of a new way of life. There she learned that feeling lost was the first step to finding...

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

I wrote something on.. Why did LSD help me with my Philosophy degree? #Philosophy #Psychedelics #LSD

Why Did LSD Help Me With My Philosophy Degree?

It’s summer in the 1990s. I’m looking down from a hill in Richmond Park, London and from the pinnacle of ...

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

It’s my 48th birthday today! Here’s a pic of me having my cake and eating it!!!

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 years

I think now is about the right time to legalise LSD & MDMA

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Kiran Sidhu

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6 months

This happened a year ago - my author copies of my book arrived! My career advisor at school thought a working class girl like me could never be a writer - “writing can only be a hobby.”

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

My latest opinion piece out this morning. #Psilocybin #PsychedelicTherapy #MentalHealthAwareness

I’ve experimented with psychedelics to improve my mental health – don’t call me a ‘waster’

I know from experience that antidepressants take you away from yourself, while psychedelics introduce you to yourself. It’s time we considered psychedelics as a serious treatment

www.independent.co.uk

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 months

My aunt has come to visit me. She’s knitted/made this farmer for me. I’m 49. I love him. 🥰

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

Every year I make my 65-year-old single neighbour a valentines card and give her chocolates from my cat, Blackberry (she buys her cat toys throughout the year). And every year she laughs & cries ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

I saw my book in the bookshop today. It was weird and rather wonderful. When I was 13 the careers advisor at school said I should see my love for writing as a hobby - it was too ambitious to think of it as a possible career.

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

We won!!! ⁦ @BAFTA ⁩

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

The kitten I found yesterday. He’s really tiny - 5 weeks I think. His name is Socrates 🐈‍⬛

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

2 years

I didn’t think it was right to keep this all to myself:

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

8 months

The article that led to a book deal that led to the book, #ICanHearTheCuckoo

How my farmer friend Wilf gave me a new perspective

It was a breath of fresh air after my turbulent city life, says Kiran Sidhu

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

10 months

I lost my dad recently. My mum died 9 years this Xmas eve. In my salad years I thought things that were natural, & in the order of life, would feel less brutal because of our awareness of the inevitability of it all. But I never knew how natural could feel so brutal & unnatural.

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Kiran Sidhu

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8 months

Writing letters and listening to ⁦ @ClassicFM ⁩ #SundayCorrespondence #HandwrittenLetters

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

10 months

I’m having an awful time at the moment - someone I trusted has treated me abominably. But I just got an email from a stranger & it’s made all the difference. So I wanted to share it:

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

Guess who’s won. #BAFTA

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 years

“What messes us up most in life is the picture in our heads of how it is supposed to be.” The picture in our heads should be seen as a blueprint & not a ‘colour by numbers’ canvas - life is the opposite of ‘colour by numbers’ - it’s abstract

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 years

My latest article out today for NYC publication, @Filtermag_org . Thank you @mattbagg for contributing. And @ProfDavidNutt for existing!! There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy #MDMA

There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy

Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth have a tendency to look back ...

filtermag.org

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

City girls can become farming girls #Farm24

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

8 months

Me looking rather pleased because the paperback of my book, ‘I Can Hear The Cuckoo’, is out in May!!

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

4 months

Something rather lovely happened today. I was in a restaurant. A woman came up to me. She told me she read my book. I thanked her. She said she’s going thru a hard time. Then we hugged. And that was it. I like this unexpected closeness 2 strangers that makes the world feel small.

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 years

I’ve just been swimming in the sea on New Year’s Day!

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

10 months

Just had a plumber visit, his second visit. I didn’t know he knew I was a writer. But just now, before he left, he asked me if I could sign my book that he just bought for his wife for Xmas. ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

1 year

Neighbour just text me she’s got an Easter egg hunt in her garden on Sat for the neighbours. At 48 I’ll be the youngest there. A while ago I told her I had never been on an egg hunt so she put one together especially for me. And she’s been doing it ever since. This is the 3rd yr.

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

1 year

The cuckoo arrived in the valley this morning! I love how everyone who heard it expressed real joy upon hearing it. I’m thrilled it’s come just before my book, I Can Hear The Cuckoo, is released. 😀

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

BAFTA on Wilf’s tractor 🚜 #HeartValley

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

A friend of mine has just texted me to to tell me I wrote the Guardian’s 13th most read article this year. Thanks everyone!

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

WE WON! 🥳

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 years

My 70-year-old neighbour, who has been single for 37 years, just got married

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Kiran Sidhu

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Kiran Sidhu

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5 months

Me in lipstick - and not wellies! It’s paperback Publication Day!

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Kiran Sidhu

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29 days

“It is magical how words arranged in a particular order, immortalised in a letter, can make their way through your fingertips and travel through your veins until all you can feel is heart” #WorldLetterWritingDay

‘Handwritten letters belong to you like your DNA’

When Kiran Sidhu rediscovered letters her aunt had written 20 years ago, she could picture her and hear her voice. The discovery transported her to a precious time in her family life in a way that a...

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 years

I had coffee with a filmmaker today. We talked about solitariness, psychedelics, Duran Duran, sameness, Kant. We almost forgot to talk about what was scheduled because we were too excited talking about random stuff. And afterwards I felt like I had just eaten a really good meal

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

3 years

My neighbour just texted me: “Thanks for having me, you both cheered me up. So proud of you kiran clever pretty lady. Xx” She knows that I don’t have my mum, so she always cheers me on & tells me she’s proud of me when something goes well. And I’m always so moved by it ❤️❤️❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

Post- Hay shattered in pjs pic. Thanks to author and fab speaker ⁦⁦⁦⁦ @mikeparkerwales ⁩ for sharing the ‘stage’ with me. And thanks for all the lovely people who turned up and asked interesting questions. I love how the kindness of strangers always lingers. 🥰

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

3 sleeps before publication day!!!

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

I met #SineadOConnor once in a pub in Dublin. I was with a friend who knew her. She came over for a chat. She was petite, had beautiful features and was incredibly shy and delicate. She embodied both strength and delicacy: a sheep in wolf’s clothing.

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

2 years

Thread 1/2 A film has been made on an article I wrote for @guardian on Wilf Davies. It will be premiering @Tribeca with myself credited as writer. Thanx filmmaker @ChristianCarg for being sensitive to Wilf & for sharing my vision. Thanx to co-producer @WakeleyLily

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Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

6 years

After watching Magic Medicine, I walked away thinking: antidepressants take you away from yourself, while psychedelics make you shake hands with yourself. #Psilocybin @ProfDavidNutt @Drug_Science

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Kiran Sidhu

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5 years

Help! Writing a feature article on people sending handwritten letters since lockdown. Have you started writing letters to friends/family? If so, please DM me. #journorequest

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Kiran Sidhu

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7 months

#WorldBookDay2024 - The Trial and Death of Socrates (because I’m that kinda girl)

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Kiran Sidhu

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5 months

Just delivered - the paperback edition of I Can Hear The Cuckoo 🤩 In bookshops end of next week. ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

Last summer I bled all over my keyboard and wrote ‘I Can Hear The Cuckoo’ On the 5th May I’ll be a guest on @BBCWomansHour I’ll be talking about my book and solitariness, philosophy, grief & what a small Welsh farming community taught me about life.

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Kiran Sidhu

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6 months

In case you didn’t know!

Kiran Sidhu

@KiranSidhu41

8 months

Me looking rather pleased because the paperback of my book, ‘I Can Hear The Cuckoo’, is out in May!!

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

When I was a kid off sick from school I used to lie on the sofa with a blanket watching The BFG. The same at 48 🤒

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 month

It’s dad’s 1 yr anniversary of death. He was 75. Mum died 9 yrs ago at 62. There’s a real feeling of being impoverished coupled with an acute awareness & sensitivity to the fact everything will become a memory, & even the most mundane, 1 day will be the thing we long 4 the most.

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Kiran Sidhu

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9 months

Anyone going for a swim in the sea tomorrow? This is me - a photo to my friends & family who thought I would never do it.

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1 year

BAFTA

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

💫 FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: Can’t believe I’m writing this: Heart Valley has qualified for the 95th Academy Awards entry for BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT. Shortlist voting opens tomorrow!

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

Thread 1/2 Heart Valley will premiere on 26th July BBC2 Wales & then go straight to iPlayer. When my article came out so many ppl wanted to see it in film - it's here! A short film that may challenge your perspective on life.. #HeartValley #WilfDavies @guardian #Farming #Wales

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 years

I wrote this article on how we often confuse solitariness & loneliness. Thought it might be quite useful right now

I left London for a remote part of Wales and I'm loving being alone

Solitude gives me a sense of clarity. By distancing myself from a world that never shuts up, I have found my own voice

inews.co.uk

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Kiran Sidhu

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9 months

Throughout our lives, Christmas will be mercurial; it will change with our personal circumstances. Let us be free to paint our own picture of Christmas. It belongs to me, you and anyone else who feels the spirit of it.

It’s time to unwrap the Christmas image

Christmas adverts tell us to be part of a big, happy festive family, but there are many more equally valid ways to spend the day

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

Thread Something rather splendid arrived in the post today:

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Kiran Sidhu

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2 years

My editor wanted a pic of me working in the garden. So I gave her this. She said she doesn’t want to use it because I look like I just killed someone & am about to bury them. I also look like I enjoyed it. And she doesn’t want anyone to get the wrong impression of me 😁

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2 years

Same

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Kiran Sidhu

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4 years

My new reported piece for NYC mag, Filter. Thanks to @BenSessa @awakn_ls @ProfDavidNutt UK on the Brink of a Psychedelic Therapy Revolution … via @Filtermag_org the Brink of a Psychedelic Therapy Revolution via @Filtermag_org

UK on the Brink of a Psychedelic Therapy Revolution

Bristol, the English city that produced street artist Banksy, will soon see the opening of the world’s first psychedelic-assisted therapy ...

filtermag.org

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1 year

Hanging out with alpacas

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1 year

I ordered cartridges for my pen and they came in a beautiful dainty box with a card that had a lovely message…. @PapierUK

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1 year

The artist/illustrator/children’s author, Emily Gravett, made this for me. She threw the plate on her own potter’s wheel & decorated and fired it. ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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3 years

Me & Wilf. Photo by @FrancescaLJones

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Kiran Sidhu

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7 months

Was given a course of 1-2-1 pottery lessons for my bday. Tomorrow will be my 2nd class. Once a week, in the afternoon, I hang out with a semi-retired potter in a fabulous workshop. While making stuff we chat about things like death, art & what makes a good life. It’s wonderful ❤️

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Kiran Sidhu

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1 year

I'm in the news: #ICanHearTheCuckoo

'Moving to Wales helped me to process my mother's death'

After Kiran Sidhu's mother died of cancer, she left London and moved to the Welsh countryside.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kiran Sidhu

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8 months

I was so upset about something today that I cried. And then this picture came up on my feed and made me happy. So I thought I should share it & spread the happiness. I like how life is sometimes quite simple.

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1 year

Socrates - the lost kitten I found 5 weeks ago. I think he’s about 11 weeks now.

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1 year

MY BOOK!

Octopus Publishing

@Octopus_Books

1 year

OUT NOW! #ICanHearTheCuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth. @KiranSidhu41

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Kiran Sidhu

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10 months

It’s my birthday tomorrow and this is me with a piece of cake 🎂

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2 years

I’ve been going winter swimming with a group of ladies called The Blue Tits. And today they gave me my badge. ❤️

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1 year

What a lovely looking bookshop window @hayfestival

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1 year

#Philosophy is trending!! My favourite….

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6 months

“I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth” #NationalSolitudeDay

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1 year

I’ll be a guest on @BBCWomansHour tomorrow morning from 10am. I’ll be talking to @itsanitarani about my memoir #ICanHearTheCuckoo , solitariness and embracing the idea of being lost.

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2 years

My neighbour just told me she’s arranging an Easter Hunt for me in her garden. She’s in her sixties & I’m in my 40s. 🥰

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@ElliottBlackwe3

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2 months

Happy “miserable childless cat lady”

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2 months

JD Vance says that Kamala Harris is a “childless cat lady” who is “miserable” with her life because she didn’t have children, and that not having children means that she doesn’t have “a direct stake” in America. Story.

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2 years

I went to the beach today with a paper & pen trying to write but swam & stared into the abyss instead.

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2 years

Being a city girl from London, I could never imagine the ineffable joy I would get from having a well-stocked woodshed.

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5 months

BAFTA (last year)

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9 months

Looking at food photos on my phone. Came across this and wondered if anyone could look at a lobster as intensely as I do.

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4 years

@StephenKing The whole world needs to hold a kitten right now.

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2 years

“I Can Hear the Cuckoo is a tender, philosophical memoir about the beauty of a microscopic life, the value of solitariness, and respecting the rhythm and timing of the earth.”

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3 years

A girl who was horrible to me at school has just contacted me to say sorry she was nasty to me. I accepted her apology. The past is always still present.

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5 months

I just heard the cuckoo! Apparently it arrived last week when ‘I Can Hear The Cuckoo’ was released in paperback. Thrilled to hear it this morning!!😊

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