Search


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...

spillustrate
Mar 252 min read
8 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Mar 192 min read
11 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Mar 72 min read
11 views
0 comments


Steps Forward
I see myself moving forward all the time. But it doesn’t mean that life gets suddenly easy and smooth. If anything life can get more...

spillustrate
Feb 272 min read
18 views
0 comments


Birthday review
Boxing helped. I thought it would be a good idea to do a review of my birthday, at least I can reread it prior to next year. Overall, it...

spillustrate
Feb 172 min read
26 views
0 comments


Pillbox bunker
I have a birthday coming up and as ever, I struggle with this. So much so that in my blanking out of birthdays I failed to ring one of my...

spillustrate
Feb 72 min read
10 views
0 comments


Fear in the night vs "crazy fighting"
I was woken by the sound of my husband knocking over a glass which smashed, in the bathroom last night. I realised what had happened, it...

spillustrate
Jan 192 min read
9 views
0 comments


2024 Review
Lots of steps forward over the year, downgrading my fears into more childlike forms. 1) Fear of not being good enough Learning to be less...

spillustrate
Jan 52 min read
10 views
0 comments


Holidays, good or bad, discuss.
It’s been a long time since my last post as I’ve been away, the other side of the world in New Zealand. I’ve had a week of jet lag but am...

spillustrate
Nov 28, 20242 min read
11 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Sep 15, 20241 min read
11 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Sep 6, 20242 min read
15 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Aug 9, 20241 min read
11 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Aug 2, 20242 min read
8 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Jul 25, 20242 min read
8 views
0 comments


It's all in the head or on the head?
(I meant to post this last week but got caught up in other stuff and forgot, better late than never) It makes me laugh that I happily...

spillustrate
Mar 5, 20243 min read
14 views
0 comments


Shifting and changing
I always want to start my posts by saying “well what a funny old week”, so obviously EVERY week is a funny old week. According to Pema...

spillustrate
Jan 22, 20242 min read
25 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Dec 11, 20232 min read
9 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Apr 29, 20232 min read
13 views
0 comments


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

spillustrate
Mar 9, 20232 min read
11 views
0 comments


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...

spillustrate
Jan 29, 20232 min read
14 views
0 comments