“Potato Lab” is a Korean rom-com, which I am embarrassed to say I’m now watching for the THIRD time on Netflix. There are a lot of reasons I’ve got into this series. I’ve been really enjoying watching K-dramas over the last year but this one has hooked me in more than any other. Being rom-coms, they are very predictable but the twists and turns always catch me out, and they tend to run for very many more episodes than you would have thought possible. I’ve enjoyed learning abo

The early weeks post-op craniotomy I just wanted to put a post up to help me get back into the groove. It is all a bit uphill, using my new software which I can hardly remember how to use. I’ve moved to Affinity from Adobe and struggling to work a new system. It has been good to reopen my sketchbooks. I played around with some pages to put together an image for the early weeks post op after the craniotomy. It is weird how there are lots of images that fit, made in the year be

View from the ward window. (Helicopter landing pad with a windsock and a nice Zen garden) 2025 turned out to be one hell of a year. But here we are in 2026, I’ve had 3 operations and I’m still alive. Brief summary of a totally weird “Unfortunate Series of Events” Operation 1 Three operations were cancelled last minute for various reasons but eventually In October I was admitted (to male head injuries ward as no other beds) and operated on. The operation was 7 hours with 4 sur

I’ve had so much to think about, trying to make sense of myself. So much to say, where to begin?  Basically nothing has happened tumour...

Just when you think everything is going so well!…… This has been totally bizarre in so many ways: A phone call while on holiday while...

It was a tough 10 days before it settled. My tooth / jaw pain is much better, not 100% resolved, still I get episodes, sadly triggered by...

So following up on from my last post, I finished Zine 7 as planned. I worked really hard at it and sent it off to the printers without...

I am hard at work at the moment trying to reach a deadline in May. I want to finish Zine 7 before I go away for a few days at the end of...

There was an article in the paper I read recently about autistic women being chameleons and “little psychiatrists”. Did they base the...

The gorgeous Midland Hotel, just don't look too closely David Bowie’s song is running through my head. Life is never fixed. We stand by...

How do you say goodbye to someone you havent seen for around 30 years? Who you loved / adored as a small child but as a young adult, that...

I loved the book  “A little Princess ” by Frances Hodgson Burnett when I was younger. Margery Gill illustrated the copy I read. I looked...

I see myself moving forward all the time. But it doesn’t mean that life gets suddenly easy and smooth. If anything life can get more...

Boxing helped. I thought it would be a good idea to do a review of my birthday, at least I can reread it prior to next year. Overall, it...

I have a birthday coming up and as ever, I struggle with this. So much so that in my blanking out of birthdays I failed to ring one of my...

I was woken by the sound of my husband knocking over a glass which smashed, in the bathroom last night. I realised what had happened, it...

I was glad to do a review of last year, it took me ages to read through my journal and sum it all up but it was satisfying to think of...

Lots of steps forward over the year, downgrading my fears into more childlike forms. 1) Fear of not being good enough Learning to be less...

I feel that I am in a constant state of flux or change. Sometimes I wonder if I am really changing or am I just reading stuff, thinking...