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- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Being liked
I always find the run up to Christmas challenging but it also gets easier each year. I used to have a melt down every October at the...
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- Nov 25
- 2 min
A good week
I had an email in my inbox this week from Sarah Woodhouse( https://sarahwoodhouse.com/about-me/) Those of us with relational trauma often...
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- Nov 17
- 3 min
Family weekend and not blogging
I’ve found it a struggle to blog recently, maybe I need to unpick that a bit, not necessarily this post. One thing I do know, I...
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- Nov 1
- 1 min
A busy time
I’ve fallen a bit behind with my posts. Life got busy for a variety of unrelated reasons, all adding up to me not posting. I think that...
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- Oct 16
- 1 min
Working on cards
I've moved over to spray paints for the time being.
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- Oct 9
- 1 min
Working but doing what?
Working in my sketch books. Not much to talk about this week. I’m working on more printing although at the moment I’m not happy with it....
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- Oct 4
- 3 min
Meeting new people, doing new things.
Another very busy weekend. This time I made my way to the Lakeland Comic Festival. The Lake District is very beautiful even in the rain....
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- Sep 25
- 2 min
Busy time, physical and mental.
After a very busy weekend in lots of different random ways, I have needed to be gentle with myself. I have been over in my studio and...
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- Sep 17
- 1 min
Out of action
I might write another post quite soon but this weekend I have had a big migraine. Or, as I like to reformulate it, “ a strong need for a...
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- Sep 9
- 3 min
It was good while it lasted
Well it was fun while it lasted but I’ve decided to give up boxing. I‘ve previously posted about my boxing fitness class here, covering...
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- Sep 3
- 2 min
Meeting up with a friend and thinking about clothes
I’m still adjusting to being me. I’ve revisited Pema Chodron’s book as I tend to find whatever bit I start reading is often helpful. So...
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- Aug 28
- 2 min
Talk the talk or Walk the Walk
So I’m now relaxing after our family visit. Overall I think it went well. After “outing” myself as neurodiverse we had our first full on...
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- Aug 21
- 1 min
Happy Families
Over the weekend I outed myself to some more of the extended family as neurodiverse which has been the right thing to do but it makes me...
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- Aug 12
- 3 min
Strong Female Characters (2)
I got back from holiday and there was the magazine to put out. Coincidentally we were short of a book review so I put one together from...
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- Aug 2
- 2 min
A strong holiday read
I’m just back from holiday, I will probably do another post all about holidays and how difficult I find them but for this post I will...
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- Jul 18
- 1 min
A bit more printing
This time, adding a second colour. It’s funny that I spent all week thinking about doing it, putting it off, doing other stuff....then...
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- Jul 8
- 2 min
Music / Art
I am experiencing some similarities between my music and my art. When I first started going to adult education lessons I would find...
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- Jul 1
- 3 min
Migraines or recovery time?
A quiet week. I needed to go slow after my stressful weekend. As I expected I had a migrainous episode after the group cello thing (which...
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- Jun 26
- 2 min
Thumb and second person
I was listening to a vlog today where someone was recommending a book called Chatter by Ethan Kross. I haven’t read it but the vlogger...
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- Jun 17
- 2 min
Cleaning up after printing
I did some more printing this week, trying to ease myself back into it. Last week was using water based inks and this week I went back to...
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