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Sep 212 min
Mother of all migraines and my favourite work so far.
I am just recovering from the most severe migraine I’ve had for a while. Hmmm, just after I produced my favourite series of drawings that...
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Sep 151 min
Parallel life if the "big bang" never happened
I’ve been finding lots of alternatives to use when I wake up with a strong fear or difficult emotion. I recently reexperienced my...
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Sep 62 min
Printing, parallels and metaphors
I’ve been busy doing some printing, we are going away fairly soon and creating my xmas cards is a job that I would rather not have on our...
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Aug 312 min
Reflections after the visit and other things
Well it actually went very well, the family visit. And I have to give myself a big pat on the back for that because the difference was...
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Aug 91 min
Just being an ordinary person,
with quite a lot of the answers worked out, but not all of them, and that’s ok. I have now had over a week of a huge step forward. I’m...
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Aug 22 min
Epiphanies, revelations, emotions
This week has been a roller coaster of emotions. I have made huge leaps forward, experienced happiness and contentment that I thought...
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Jul 252 min
Fear
I’ve been reading a couple of interesting books on fear. Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker Embracing Fear by Thom Rutledge. I was looking...
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Jun 161 min
Back again
I felt the urge to put a post up, mainly to celebrate that I have finished Zine 6 at last! It has dragged on for ever but yesterday I...
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May 21, 20232 min
Ok, I'm getting good and messy with the printing
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...
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May 11, 20231 min
Zine 5 hits the comic book shop!
Here it is on the shelves of Destination Venus, an independent comic book shop in Harrogate, located on the ground floor of Everyman...
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Apr 29, 20232 min
A celebration but also goodbye
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...
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Apr 9, 20231 min
Update on Zine 5
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...
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Jan 29, 20232 min
Working on Zine 5
I’m back at work at Zine 5 now. It is slow progress, slowly whittling away at the pages, putting things together and then fiddling around...
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Jan 20, 20232 min
Box Fit
The big clear out makes me think about getting rid of stuff in general. I like Marie Kondo’s ideas and in the past read a book on Swedish...
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Dec 12, 20222 min
Working on Zine 5
I’m eating the elephant one mouthful at a time….it feels like glacial progress but I have actually got some sort of plan for the entire...
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Dec 5, 20222 min
Visit from family
I had a visit from a family member over the weekend. It was good to see them and we talked for hours (really, hours). And it wasn’t...
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Aug 25, 20222 min
Visit from someone who triggers me
I have written before about a member of my husband’s family who triggers me regarding abuse as a child. (Here) Well would you believe...
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Aug 21, 20222 min
Big news!
Big news for me at least, I’ve sent Zine 4 to the printers ready to be printed off! I knew there was only a tiny bit of tweaking to do, I...
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Jun 24, 20223 min
Signed up for a course!
I posted a few weeks ago about what I might do in the future and then an email dropped into my account with a newsletter from LDComics....
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Sep 30, 20212 min
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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