I am experiencing some similarities between my music and my art. When I first started going to adult education lessons I would find...

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...

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...

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...

This week I have been rejigging my studio around to start printing in it (I used to print in our basement before but the cats made it...

So let’s have a break from my internal world for a bit and go back to printing! Plans, getting ready. First I’m still needing to set up...

Now I am officially neurodiverse! Masked autistic traits with some ADHD. I bloody knew it! My therapist threw the word “neurodiverse”...

So I had a good day starting to get stuck in. Just getting my hands dirty again. And in a huge life parallel, there is so much internal...

As always, life takes over what we think we should be doing. I meant to really embark on hand printing but instead got led down other...

Here it is on the shelves of Destination Venus, an independent comic book shop in Harrogate, located on the ground floor of Everyman...

A week ago I woke up feeling fine, had a quick walk to the shop which was lovely, fresh and peaceful, the birds singing, which was lovely...

So as I finish my zine on my Dad, I thought I would include some pictures of me and my Dad when I was little. Here he is cuddling me in...

One of the insights I picked up in therapy is that stuff I can get really wound up about is often not originating from myself. So an...

I’ve mentioned the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van der Kolk before, about how the body displays outward manifestations of...

Before we get to onto the Zine, I had my first proper cello lesson. My husband was away with the car so I had to make my own way there...

Busy old week with two very different enterprises. So a few weeks ago I had mentioned my continuing preoccupation about the cello. The...

’ve just got back from being away. I always struggle with going on holiday and as usual I struggled in the weeks beforehand. Anyway, I...

There has been lots of stuff recently about ADHD and I find that if I ever mention it, people often make the rejoinder “ oh that’s really...

I recently was sent an email from Sarah Woodhouse https://sarahwoodhouse.com who is a trauma specialist and psychologist. She was...

The weeks zoom round so quickly and I am thinking about another blog post. Another very different family visit. A lunch with a cousin...