
Paula Cocozza
Feature Writer at The Guardian
@Guardian writer. Novels SPEAK TO ME (2023) and HOW TO BE HUMAN. Likes books, fashion, football, food & nature. Ice cream in the blood
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paula Cocozza
One sunny August evening, Jean Walters was sitting in her garden in Meltham, West Yorkshire, when the church bells began to ring. She sipped her glass of wine; the evening seemed idyllic. “A quintessential English country garden,” she thought, and posted on Facebook: “Bells ringing, how lovely!”The next day when the plumber came to fix her toilet, more prosaically, he mentioned that he had seen her post, and being a bellringer himself, gave her the number of the local church’s tower captain.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Paula Cocozza
On a cold winter’s night, in a “fit of spontaneity”, Nathan Dunne and his girlfriend went for a midnight swim on Hampstead Heath in London. They had been living together for a few months and, although it was dark and chilly, they “had a summer feeling in that first flush of the relationship”, Dunne says. They shed their clothes and waded into the shallows.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Paula Cocozza
Adele Zeynep Walton knew something was wrong when she stumbled out of her caravan in the New Forest at 8am – she was camping with her boyfriend – and, through her sleepy fog, saw her parents’ car driving towards her. Initially annoyed by the idea of a family walk so early in the day, she then noticed that the car was veering off the track and, as it drew closer, her mother looked “hysterical”. “Straight away,” she says.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Paula Cocozza
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Paula Cocozza
Brendan MacNeill had wanted to be a photographer since he was a child, and he spent more than 40 years studying and working in the field. But the economic uncertainties of freelancing meant it never really felt like a dream come true and, last year, he “woke up on the first working day of January, and decided something had to change”. Within a week, he had set himself up as a dog-walker. He was 67.
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