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So, when Belonging finally emerges from is chrysalis to stretch its wings, I reckon a load of people will read it and think "Jeez, you need therapy." Yup, been there.

(Spoiler warning: it didn't go well)

Belonging is live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st

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One of the (dubious) benefits of being a wandering English teacher and seeing the world is that some of the parts you see might not be glamorous....

From my entry to the Universal Turing Machine project, going live on June 1st

Ghost is a very good platform for newsletters. I use it for my blog. Lots of strong features, lots of customisation options, integrated email lists....

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To be honest, I was a little surprised to find only one mention of milk in my memoir, Belonging. Welcome to 12 Somerset Road, don't mind the typo!

Belonging goes live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st!

When I was a student in Manchester in the 1990s, Mantasy was the most popular club on Canal Street.

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My teenage years were not a fun time...

From Belonging, going live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st

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Lumps, bumps and other alarums in Belonging, going live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st

(it isn't cancer)

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The reality of Scalextric was always much more disappointing than the promise of it...
From Belonging, live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st

It might be one of those commonplace student housing things, along with barely functional heating and neighbourhoods of spectacular roughness.

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From Belonging, live on June 1st on the Universal Turing Machine...
It's 1996, Manchester, and I'm discovering how interior design and student housing are not commonly encountered together

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One entry in Belonging takes a very different approach to the others, in that it is a trip into my own perception of a migraine (yuck).

Belonging goes live on the Universal Turing Machine on the 1st June

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I guess it's normal in memoirs to go to dark places. This is the beginning to one of mine.
Belonging will be going live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st.

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Sometimes in a memoir, things get a little bit scientific, especially when electron microscopy is involved.
From Belonging, my forthcoming entry in the Universal Turing Machine project, live on June 1st

When I was 15 (in 1992), my mum forced me to take Sourcery and Equal Rites with me on my school's German exchange. I read Sourcery on the bus back from the airport and was hooked immediately.

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It's time for football in Belonging, going live on the Universal Turing Machine on June 1st...

The MC is actually me aged 20, and very, very British: the Universal Turing Machine project is all about memoirs. I was in Sandusky OH to start working at Cedar Point!

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A brief trip to June 1997 in Belonging, live on June 1st on the Universal Turing Machine project

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My entry in Richard Beard's Universal Turing Machine project will be going live on June 1st. Belonging does not have 'highlight', but it does have feature:

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Another little piece from Belonging, due for inclusion in the Universal Turing Machine project, live on June 1st:

The idea of the Universal Turing Machine project is that everyone's story is worth telling and that all memoirs have value. This one is mine.
We've entered an age where GenAI can spit out endless nonsense in heartbeats, real human experience and expression should be valued above synthetic nonsense.

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From Belonging, my forthcoming contribution to the Universal Turing Machine project, going live on June 1st:

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From Belonging, my contribution to the Universal Turing Machine project, going live on June 1st...

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From my forthcoming entry in the Universal Turing Machine project, Belonging, live on June 1st:

No trace of 'subtle' but I do have a delicate!

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From Belonging, my contribution to the Universal Turing Machine project, going live on June 1st this year...

Anyone can author a contribution to the next phase of The Universal Turing Machine, on the principle that everyone’s life-story is equally valid. For more details see https://www.universalturingmachine.org – every six months another row and column of memoirs will be published. The eight memoirs scheduled to be added online in June 2026 are: Madeline Barnicle, Zwangzug, and other Advantageous Moves Norman Crowther, I Squared Barbara Holtmann, I Really Don’t Know Life At All Nick Jacob, You Don’t Want to Leave Me Harriet James, Harriet Did It P T Lacy, Belonging Patience Mackarness, Metaphor Soup Liza Reed, The Long Profile

But another good reason to check it out is because Richard has chosen the first eight user-submitted memoirs to add to the machine and...
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Mine just happens to be one of them!
universalturingmachine.co.uk/about-the-au...

Maybe you’ve heard of Richard Beard. Maybe you read about his new memoir project, The Universal Turing Machine.
You should check it out, it's a great concept, especially if you're concerned about AI writing overrunning human writing:

universalturingmachine.co.uk/utm/

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