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Ch-ch-changes
The gorgeous Midland Hotel, just don't look too closely David Bowie’s song is running through my head. Life is never fixed. We stand by...

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Mar 252 min read


Death comes to us all
How do you say goodbye to someone you havent seen for around 30 years? Who you loved / adored as a small child but as a young adult, that...

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Mar 192 min read



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Mar 170 min read


Margery Gill
I loved the book “A little Princess ” by Frances Hodgson Burnett when I was younger. Margery Gill illustrated the copy I read. I looked...

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Mar 72 min read


Nothing stays the same
I feel that I am in a constant state of flux or change. Sometimes I wonder if I am really changing or am I just reading stuff, thinking...

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Dec 20, 20242 min read


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 21, 20242 min read


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 15, 20241 min read


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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Sep 6, 20242 min read


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 31, 20242 min read


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 9, 20241 min read


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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Aug 2, 20242 min read


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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Jul 25, 20242 min read


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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Jun 16, 20241 min read


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 21, 20232 min read


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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May 11, 20231 min read


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 29, 20232 min read


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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Apr 9, 20231 min read


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 29, 20232 min read


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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Jan 20, 20232 min read


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 12, 20222 min read