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

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...