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The Year of Doing Scary Things

How I Ended Up in Manchester on a Saturday Night

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Jul 13, 2025
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This is my year of doing scary things.

That wasn’t the plan, exactly. But somewhere along the line - maybe when I started saying yes to things that made me instinctively recoil, or when I realised I was getting a bit too comfortable saying “nah, maybe next time” - it became the theme.

Not huge things, necessarily. Not skydiving or scaling Everest. Just th…

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