This was originally going to be some normal, long(ish) post all about the thoughts and feelings that have occurred to me in my first month of being 26. As it turns out, my time is short on this Sunday afternoon, and I have the Sims 4 waiting to be played upstairs. Yes, Sims 4, you … More 26 things I’ve learnt in the first month of being 26
Below is my new daily writing routine, which I want to start TODAY. I hope this helps any other writers struggling to fit writing into their daily lives, and if you have any other tips on how to make more time for writing, let me know! … More My Writing Daily Routine
There’s just something about graveyards that I like. I don’t know what it is exactly, but spending an hour or two at the weekend just wandering through one makes me feel excited about life again. … More The Graveyard Anthology: Welwyn
2019 seems to have been hailed the year of getting shit done. No longer do we hide away under our double-quilted duvets, waiting for the Mondays and Tuesdays to roll into Fridays and Saturdays. No longer do we hover around the concept that tomorrow is another day, for tomorrow IS today in 2019, and it’s … More What I want to write in 2019
Goodbye 2018, hello 2019! My 2018 round-up plus what I’m planning for 2019. … More Goodbye 2018, hello 2019!
Every lunchtime at work, I walk through the woods to a football field and sit on a bench. Sit on a bench and I think and I eat. And for the last few weeks, I’ve been seriously thinking of scrapping this blog completely, and starting afresh. A new blog. A new space. A new online … More Why I can’t part ways with ‘Heart, Lungs, Peonies’
There’s nothing like a little lunch date. The morning might have been crap. There might have been 100 emails in your inbox from the night before, all as urgent as each other, and you spend the entire morning frantically typing trying to get a reply out to everyone. I feel your pain. That stress is … More Little Lunch Dates
I haven’t got a plan and that scares me a bit. There’s always a plan. From the train timetable to the route I walk to work. To how I spend my evenings, and what time I get up. I plan what I do, where I am, what I put in my mouth. I am a … More I Haven’t Got a Plan
As a kid, I used to look forward to my book club every week. The cookies, the cakes, the films, and of course, the books. I read so much more wildly as a kid, eager to eat-up whatever there was, whatever the libarian who ran the book club could find that had enough copies in … More Starting a Book Club
I CAN’T EVEN CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT. Download 2018 was absolutely, without a doubt, FUCKING FANTASTIC. Excuse my language. I just, I just can’t get over it. I’m still living off the Download vibes. The music, the food, the whole atmosphere. The way it made me FEEL. I FELT EMOTIONS. Have you ever been somewhere where … More Download Festival 2018
My Paper Lungs 