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Turning into my mother?
I’m experiencing something which I’ve noticed before but seems to be getting more and more obvious. As I get older, I quite often catch a...

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Dec 19, 20232 min read


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


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


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 25, 20232 min read


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


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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Nov 1, 20231 min read


Working on cards
I've moved over to spray paints for the time being.

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Oct 16, 20231 min read


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 9, 20231 min read


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


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 25, 20232 min read


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


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 9, 20233 min read


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


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


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


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


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


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


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 8, 20232 min read


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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Jul 1, 20233 min read