Rambling Missive with Louise Leigh
by Louise Leigh
Small thoughts and short reads from the brain, via the fingers and the keyboard of Louise Leigh, appearing sporadically at best. I read them without editing, because otherwise I'd get involved in some kind of perfectionist nonsense, so they have built-in bloopers, if you like that sort of thing - or indeed would prefer to avoid them. louiseleigh.substack.com
Episodes
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The animal in me.
Us Homo sapiens are very keen to pretend we’re different from animals. “Do animals drink flat white?” We ask. “Would an animal use this woodsy-scented texturising hair putty? Or carry this jaunty hand-stitched satchel? No! Then I am not an animal. I am a person. Very different, actually.”…
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I believe the jet wash cured my depression
I’ve never been clinically diagnosed with depression, but I have had periods of my life where I was deeply, dully, sad in the face of really nothing at all being wrong. A couple of years ago, I was in one such fog. I felt numb, uninterested in life, every step was a trudge. For about a month, I...
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Songs to Do Things To
I had the pleasure of waking up in Winchester yesterday and so of course I had to pay a visit to its cathedral. Two reasons: * I am fond of cathedrals. What can I say? I like big buttresses, cannot lie! Since 1992, every time I ride my bike in a jaunty manner - some might describe this as…
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Sometimes being a woman is like living underwater.
I’m just back from the Edinburgh Fringe where I did two shows a day, 22 times in 24 days. One show, Aaagony Aunts, is a panel show with my friend Pauline Eyre, where we solve problems brought to us by comedians and audience members, using mystic utensils, including the World Famous Salad Spinner…
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An attempt to make this obsession tax-deductible
FIRSTLY: I can’t believe there are now 100 of you. Thank you so much for joining and staying with my ramblings! Genuinely, if I picture you all coming round my house it’s quite overwhelming. Here’s the missive: I’ve loved romantic fiction since I was a teenager. The happy endings, the yearning…
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Do U tensil?
In October I spent almost a week at my parents’ house helping my mum to declutter. My mum is resolutely strong and fit (my dad a bit less so), but she’s also resolute in a promise she made when she was my age: that her children wouldn’t be torn apart by fighting over her stuff. Hence she’s trying...
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The Hold Music in my brain
I’ve talked on here before about how I wear my internal monologue the way Superman wears his pants (on the outside). If you think I talk too much, imagine if I didn’t. Imagine being in my head where all that noise is. If I didn’t occasionally (often) open the sluice gates and relieve the…
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9-11 Reflections from a former Newspup
Around the turn of the 21st Century, I was working in a TV newsroom for a major international press agency. Yeah, baby, I was (kind of) a journalist. I wasn’t; I was a newsroom assistant - a junior producer. It was my job to book guests who could analyse the stories live on air; to make sure that...
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On homesickness
. Earlier in the summer I spent a few days at home - by which I mean the place I don’t live. I mean - of course - the place I’m from. Angus. Beautiful Angus on the East Coast of Scotland. North of Dundee, South of Aberdeen, it’s not even the good bit of Scotland, but it shits all over anything...
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Our Airbnb turned out to be a portal to an alternate universe
A bit of a longer read so I have narrated it, extremely imperfectly. You can find the transcript on my Substack. Follow me on the socials @louiseleighcomedy if you want gig news and more nonsense. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to...
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On mothering, my mother and the Party Gene
My younger child turned 18 the other day, which means I have Completed Parenting. That’s it, done. I’m walking away, dusting my hands off and smiling in satisfaction. Right? Right? To celebrate, my kid threw a house party and I woke up on my 20th Mother’s Day with my house in chaos and my heart...
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Happy New Week!
It’s traditional to hate Mondays. The thing is, I’ve always sort of liked Mondays. As my friend Other Jane said, (after she vomited into a cup in front of a flasher on the tube) “I do apologise for being so disgusting.” Nonetheless, even when I had a Proper Job and got the Friday Foolishness and...
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Only Murders in the Girl-Gang.
Inspired by someone on social media, this week I found myself wondering who I would call if I done a murder, to help me dispose of a body. It’s the ultimate test of friendship, isn’t it? You show yourself at your most imperfect, and you ask someone to show up, to incriminate themselves in a crime...
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Ooh! Ah! I lost my bra! I left my knickers in...
I don’t have a lot of Fearsome Dreads. I mean, I have the standard ones: war, famine, apocalpyse, spiders; not knowing how to spell accopalyps; having to stand on a chair in front of a room full of people; the chair I’m standing on being a spinny office chair; someone spinning the chair I’m...
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Second Fringe = Second Baby
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit louiseleigh.substack.com
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The loneliness of the early deadline
It’s been time, as the young people say. It’s just the text of my post read out loud by me without stopping. It’s only 3 minutes of your life. I love you goodnight This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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The Lone Vagina
They call me the Lone Vagina I’m the only woman on the lineup Thanks for reading Rambling Missive! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. And I’m feeling pretty fed up Cos the maths just don’t quite add up. Four comedians on the bill: Jack and Jack and Jack and Jill A…
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Oh crap, I'm the Mum
It's just me, reading out the newsletter, in case reading isn't your thing for whatever reason. Very much a warts and all reading, because if I had to edit, I wouldn't publish! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes…
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First sign of madness?
A friend once said to me, “you know what I love about you, Louise” [first of all: thank you! I love you too!] She said, “I love that you just don’t give a shit what people think of you!” Lovely - but so wrong. I’m extremely interested in what other people think of me. Too interested if anything....
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Fight, Freeze or go Floppy?
Episode two featuring fluffs and low effort, low fi. Yes, it’s bad. Deliberately so. Look, though. Less than 8 minutes of your life. LOVE YOU! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit louiseleigh.substack.com
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On Considering What Happens to My Remains when I Die
I am disobeying all the rules of everything. Basically, I just thought maybe some people would like to listen to me read this stuff out loud, rather than be bothered reading it, so I’m releasing the substack as mini podcasts of - like - 5/10 minutes. I’m not editing them, you get them as I read...
About this show
Small thoughts and short reads from the brain, via the fingers and the keyboard of Louise Leigh, appearing sporadically at best. I read them without editing, because otherwise I'd get involved in some kind of perfectionist nonsense, so they have built-in bloopers, if you like that sort of thing - or indeed would prefer to avoid them.
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