Author: mslizbentley

"Psychotherapist by day/Comedian by Night" Liz Bentley, with over 500 gigs, 4 full length shows and 3 books to her name, is currently playing keyboards with Pig City Committee and waiting for her new book 'The Suicidal Theraist' to be published this year.
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Happy Pickled Walnuts time of the year

Tesco no longer sell pickled walnuts. I’d been aware of this for a while in the Tesco delivery run ups to Xmas.  I seriously thought I would do without this year and then I began to realise how important they are for me.

Xmas eve and my husband, once discovering what was the matter, went on a mission and found some in Sainsbury’s.  Now Xmas can begin, disliking it just that little bit less now I have a walnut.   I eat one, then I’m bored and like to have one in a few months time.   I enjoy watching them in the fridge, every week or two I pick  up the jar to change shelves and bounce them around in the jar.

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#Grandad #WW1 #roll-ups and a #bullet

My First Cigarette

The Great War for Civilization
A bullet ricochets off the tobacco tin covering his heart, into his shoulder
Saves his life – cliché but true
I am 9 years old and the corner shop won’t sell me fags and the machines are empty of 10 soverign filter, no 6 and Piccadilly with the sixpence cello taped on the packet
I take out one of the pre rolled cigarettes from the 1914 Ligget and Myers tobacco tin
Parched, it burns up quickly
A bit falls off and leaves a hole in my brownie uniform
Jenny Morris comes round for tea and we smoke one together
Kevin Bottomley from next door has another

Forty years later there are 6 pre rolled cigarettes left in the Liggett and Myers tobacco tin
I am not giving this to the Imperial War museum as suggested. It is useful for my anxiety to know that they are there if I need one.

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#Nunhead Art Trail this weekend

I’m very pleased to be displaying a display and performing in a random manor this weekend at the amazing artist Gill Day’s house which will be full of art, fun and performance.

Expect personal poems, songs and premonitions ….. Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm, 224 Ivydale Road SE15 3BU

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3rd Tesco Delivery Woman in a year …..

She surprised me while I was participating in a yoga u tube workout …

With holidays upon us and lots of children doing different things, my latest blog posts for from essex to london in 101 boyfriends of Pelekas amalgamations, similarly to most Easyjet flights to Corfu, will be delayed .  It is written but needs a little more editing time. This however provides a chance for newer readers to catch up on reading previous posts over the holidays ….

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Tesco delivery man in the heat and preparing my blog for World #MultipleSclerosisDay

It’s World #MultipleSclerosis Day on Wednesday 30th May, coincidently, the next Boyfriend (No. 43)  of my book/blog  fromessextolondonin101boyfriends  is set in 1987 when I was diagnosed with MS, that’s nearly 31 years ago.  My diagnosis is referenced in my blog re boyfriend No. 43, so only befitting to publish it on Wednesday to celebrate, rather than today, when I would normally post the next boyfriend.  Sorry to keep you waiting ….

To catch up with boyfriends No.1 to No. 42 thus far scroll down on fromessextolondonin101boyfriends.com

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Tesco Delivery, hair dressing, naughty knees and aging…..

Please check out fromessextolondonin101boyfriends.com  and press the follow button to be updated with the next boyfriend ….. the story is developing and I would hate for you to miss any important links ….

Don’t forget readers .. there is always a reason ……

Day 32 of knee injury – as one begins to get better the other is now playing up, naughty knees ….. having one’s hair done makes such a difference to how one feels about life (if one has hair of course).  I used to wonder why it was so important for my mother and as life goes on, hair dressing becomes ever more important to me, I expect it will be the chiropodist next, but not for a few years yet, I hope.

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Freud Museum show and day 21 of knee injury..

What an amazing place to perform … 4 in 5 loved the show , 1 in 5 hated it … it used to be 1 in 4 ….. what a shame that mental health statistics aren’t going down in the same way …

I’ve got an mcl/meniscus tear … it’s painful …. performing is a wonderful release/distraction …..

On the upside, the pain cuts through MS sensations and I can focus on this injury that will get better …. irony being that I did it in yoga and yoga is the cure … just keep moving just keep moving ..

talking of moving .. don’t forget to keep your eye out for Boyfriend No. 39 … the transition to London ..

from Essex to London in 101 boyfriends .com