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Birthday review
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...
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Feb 172 min read
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2024 Review
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...
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Jan 52 min read
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Holidays, good or bad, discuss.
It’s been a long time since my last post as I’ve been away, the other side of the world in New Zealand. I’ve had a week of jet lag but am...
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Nov 28, 20242 min read
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Trip away
I never want to go away from my home where I feel so comfortable and safe but one of my offspring FORCED me to go down to London to see...
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Jul 11, 20242 min read
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It's all in the head or on the head?
(I meant to post this last week but got caught up in other stuff and forgot, better late than never) It makes me laugh that I happily...
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Mar 5, 20243 min read
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Medical stuff and demons
Pema also says that we should use the chaos and difficult times as the best way to approach enlightenment . The weekend before last was a...
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Feb 5, 20243 min read
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Shifting and changing
I always want to start my posts by saying “well what a funny old week”, so obviously EVERY week is a funny old week. According to Pema...
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Jan 22, 20242 min read
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Review of last year
I notice that some of the bloggers I follow had done recaps of last year and I thought it was a good idea. I have 3 rather different...
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Jan 7, 20242 min read
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Notes on Xmas
So how has this year gone?(I need to reread this in the run up next year.) I think I was RELATIVELY peaceful in the run up. I remember...
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Jan 2, 20242 min read
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Cello group
I have been working on my next zine. It is all about mothering, as experienced by myself and my mother with her mother. Just looking into...
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Dec 11, 20232 min read
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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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Dec 3, 20232 min read
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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 17, 20233 min read
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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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Oct 4, 20233 min read
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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 17, 20231 min read
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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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Sep 3, 20232 min read
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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 28, 20232 min read
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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 21, 20231 min read
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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 12, 20233 min read
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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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Aug 2, 20232 min read
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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 18, 20231 min read
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