

The light in the dark
So the thick, cold, numbing, vein-slowing, cerebrum-dulling dark of my recent depressive state has, frankly, really pissed me off. The...
Nov 10, 20211 min read


August: My marbles run off into the dark...
I had been in the car for 11 and a half hours. I never once got out to go to the loo or drank anything. My fear and anxiety about using...
Oct 8, 20212 min read


Homeschooling
I love my family above all else. I'm not the doe-eyed, sweet tempered, wise, ever smiling, benevolent figure of love, comfort, safety and...
Oct 8, 20211 min read


Birthdays in Buttercream
Despite a few sad looking round vanilla sponge cakes drowned in too-runny blue icing and swamped in a haphazard accumulation of Dr Oetger...
Nov 1, 20201 min read


What if?
What if I start writing? What if something worth reading pops out of my head and onto the screen? Who's going to read this stuff? Who...
Oct 18, 20201 min read


Odes and Oddities
"I am a Stinky Pants Potty Bottom" a poem inspired by one of my politely mannered, well brought up children "I'm a Stinky Pants Potty...
Oct 18, 20201 min read


Autumn magic
Christmas is celebratory, fairy-lit and fattening, Spring makes the heart swell with expectation from the sight of swollen tree buds,...
Oct 18, 20202 min read