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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Saturday 21 June
Hooray for zone four! Found a neat little terrace house in Penge, with a garage and tiny garden, only minutes away from the train station. The [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Friday 13 June
I’ve got a job! I start work next week as a classroom assistant at the college. Mr Linley was right, it’s quite modest, but at least [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Thursday 5 June
Here’s Sam’s essay on My Family: ‘Mummy is drinking less whine, but Daddy is drinking more whiskie. He doesn’t go to work any more. Mummy is [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.

Friday 30 May
Mr M out of bed, but shuffling round house in dressing gown, eating cornflakes. So it was just me at the building society. Wore the only [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Saturday 24 May
Saturday, and Sonja’s gone back to Poland. She says she can get a better job there now anyway. Mr M’s still refusing to get out of [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Ran round harassing people all day, and finally got all the olive oil money. Put the assorted cheques, notes and coins in an envelope to present to Mr [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.

Saturday 10 May
Phew, what a scorcher! Decided to take my new laptop into the garden to work this morning, as the successful businessperson I clearly am. After much [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Saturday 3 May
A week after the big olive oil tasting, and I’ve finally plucked up the courage to do the accounts. Actually I think it went really well, [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Saturday 27 April
Huge panic! Realised I’d forgotten to get any wine for the olive oil tasting party tomorrow. Well, obviously, there’s Mr M’s cellar, but he made [...]

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Liz Moody’s Dulwich Life is written by Anna Sayburn, inspired by Gainsborough’s portrait “Mrs Elizabeth Moody and Her Two Sons”. It imagines how Mrs Moody might live today.
Wednesday 16 April
A strange thing happened. As I walked the boys to school, Sam was lecturing me about drinking too much. They’ve been doing drugs and alcohol [...]

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