During one of the stickier periods of my life I regularly took myself off on a Saturday morning for breakfast and then a trip to the cinema. Those few hours eating alone, reading alone and watching alone kept me afloat through horrendous work pressure and a warped, harmful relationship.<\/p>\n
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I got out, moved jobs, cities, homes and blokes and stopped dating myself. Not deliberately, but slowly and definitely I gave up time alone. At first, this is the for the best reasons. You’ve licked your wounds and are making tentative steps on the way to a new life. And those steps become a conga through new pubs, new friends, new experiences and the whirlwind keeps you going. After a while something is missing and you can’t quiet work it out. Then you get 10 minutes with a book while waiting for a friend and it clicks. You’ve not done this for a while.<\/p>\n
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My last proper solo date was to see Denial\u00a0<\/a>which meant sobbing in public and then for lunch with wine at East Avenue Bakehouse<\/a>. I came home refreshed and ready for anything. When Fizzy went live I had a lone celebratory lunch with good coffee<\/a> and Wilkie Collins<\/a>. It’s the perfect remedy for busy brain and a reminder that you’re alright, you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During one of the stickier periods of my life I regularly took myself off on a Saturday morning for breakfast and then a trip to the cinema. Those few hours eating alone, reading alone and watching alone kept me afloat through horrendous work pressure and a warped, harmful relationship. I got out, moved jobs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[58,80,29],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_20170201_135928-e1499713488108.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25937,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25908\/revisions\/25937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allaboutthefizzy.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}