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Post xmas catch up
Well I tried to post last week but I just couldn’t get on my website, and I was too time pressured to try again. The good news is that I...

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Dec 31, 20211 min read


Family and Reality
A really ironic thing happened yesterday, my father, from whom I have been estranged for the past 30 years, sent me an email with his...

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Dec 16, 20212 min read


Pre Christmas meltdown
It’s been a funny old week as I had my annual pre christmas meltdown. The good news is that I used to have this in October so early...

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Dec 10, 20212 min read


Updates and procrastinations
page of visual diary from a few years ago I’ve had a quiet week, my Moderna booster was on Tuesday and like so many people I had 48 hours...

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Dec 3, 20212 min read


Neuro diversity (again)
(Just a random sketchbook page to accompany this post) I have posted previously about being interested in the topic of neurodiversity and...

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Nov 26, 20212 min read


Report back on Thought Bubble
An interesting table at Thought bubble Well, overall the Thought Bubble experience was a bit of an anticlimax. Firstly, I think because...

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Nov 18, 20212 min read


Feedback versus Criticism
I have always struggled with feedback / criticism. I have said before on my blog that in an ideal world I would prefer to play a piece...

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Nov 11, 20212 min read


Excited or anxious?
The cat helping with the printing last week, they find the press so comfy. My mood has been cycling recently round and round in an...

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Nov 5, 20212 min read


Back again but not getting very far.
It’s been a funny old time, enforced absence from my work, computer broken, fixed, but actually not really working that well…. So I spent...

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Oct 29, 20212 min read


Back again
I didn’t post last week as my computer crashed. Hopefully after a little trip away, a mini break at the computer shop, it is back up and...

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Oct 27, 20211 min read


Neuro diversity
Meeting up with an art friend. I always come away from meeting my art friend high as a kite and my head exploding with ideas. And that is...

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Oct 14, 20214 min read


Speaking out against violence towards women by police officers.
I spent last weekend helping a dyslexic friend write a letter of complaint about the police handling of an assault. A man had launched an...

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Oct 8, 20211 min read


Mixed Feedback, some good, some not so good
It’s been an interesting couple of weeks, I sent a draft version of my zine (The Big Bang) out to various people to get some feedback on...

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Sep 30, 20212 min read


Working on Hyper Vigilance
I’ve been reading a really good book recently. “The body keeps the score: Mind, brain and body in the transformation of Trauma” by Bessel...

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Sep 24, 20213 min read


Working hard
Potential cover for Zine 2, new title, the Big Bang I’m going full tilt with Zine 2 now. It’s taking shape and I might be able to post a...

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Sep 16, 20211 min read


Working on Zine 2, feelings resurface but a snuggly sweater can help
I had a clear narrative for this zine….and then I started work on it. I have a weird working process of going backwards. (I guess that is...

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Sep 9, 20212 min read


Apologies and narrative threads
Firstly both the Office Junior and Octopus complained last week about the way they have been represented. The Office Junior sees herself...

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Sep 3, 20211 min read


Complex trauma or C-PTSD
I’ve been reading some interesting stuff in the last couple of weeks. I’m interested in blogs that talk about dealing with mood swings...

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Aug 27, 20212 min read


Role of pride and moving the goal posts
I’ve been feeling very driven this last 2 years. I decided at the end of the last level of my course that my overall ambition was to...

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Aug 20, 20212 min read


Playing games
This is a game I DO remember playing with my grandmother whilst visiting at their holiday caravan I’ve been away this week, I’ve been...

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Aug 13, 20211 min read


