G.A. Franks

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G A Franks is originally from a small town in Leicestershire, but now resides in the Cotswolds with his wife and children.

As a child he loved using a bright pink ‘McDonald’s‘ pen and ‘Transformers’ notepad to write stories about his beloved comic book characters, and - until recently - that was where his writing career began and ended.

Much of his adult life has been spent travelling around the pubs and clubs of England playing bass and guitar in a variety of bands. (With varying degrees of success!) But after finally reaching a state of comfortable middle-age tubbyness, and completing a degree in education, he decided to leave the music to the next generation, swap the old pink pen for a MacBook and start writing again.

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Living with REALLY long covid – an update from the ‘first wave’ in 2022.

It was twenty-five months ago, back in September of 2020, that I wrote my first blog – a piece that chronicled my experiences with long covid at the six-month mark. Little did I realise that, long as it seemed, six months was just the beginning of a much longer journey! You can read that original piece here:

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