It’s 9.32am, and I am walking out of the house. It’s cold, but not quite enough to need gloves. I’m a little bit jumpy, because I’m about to go and do something intimidating. Is it a job interview? An exam? No, it’s much more mundane. It’s an eye test. The …
3 Ways I Organise Around My Mental Health
It continues, all month, to be organisation month – or ‘get organised’ month as I think it’s more properly called. But before we get into more posts about how I organise myself, I want to talk about a really important consideration I make – organising around my depression and anxiety. …
Bus Shelter
in winter you were too cold, the wind howling in your side;in summer you were too hot, your metal heating until its touch burnedbut you were always there, far enough from everythingthat no one would ever know I was seated on your too-narrow benchesor curled up in the corner on …
Your Normal Is My Scary: 1 – An Eye Test
It’s 9.32am, and I am walking out of the house. It’s cold, but not quite enough to need gloves. I’m a little bit jumpy, because I’m about to go and do something intimidating. Is it a job interview? An exam? No, it’s much more mundane. It’s an eye test. The …
Why I’m relieved to be back at work after the holidays
I have a love-hate relationship with holidays. On the one hand, time off! Something that in the past year as I’ve come to be working full time (for the first time in my life), I’ve started to really appreciate. It’s incredibly important to be able to take a step back …
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On University Applications
I know that you must read a lot of thesebut I can’t help but feel thatreally, honestly, it’s impossiblefor me to sum up all of my dreamsin a mere three hundred words. Or to show you all of the things I can writein a sample of just two thousand;or to …
My plans for 2019 and the blog!
2018 saw a huge amount of growth for this little corner of the internet. Lots of successes, some failures too, but there’s no question that it’s now miles ahead of what it was when the year began. The most impressive thing about that? I didn’t really plan any of it. …
Museum Adventure #1
It’s 1pm on a windy December day. Our heroine – spoilers, that’s me – has just trekked two hours into central London. The bridge was so frigid that her hands are freezing, because for some reason she decided to take her gloves out of her handbag this morning. And, at …
Height
whilst everyone around me wanted to be t a l l e r I wanted to be smaller so that I could hide so that I would be small, dainty not huge and clumsy and lumbering or maybe just so that I could be the opposite of what everyone else …
January is Organisation Month!
I know, I know, they’ll make a fake holiday out of everything. But I think it’s fair to say that most people view January as a month to take charge of things in their life by sprucing up their organisation. There’s a lot of backlash to it, and I can …
2018 Year In Review
At the beginning of 2018, I set myself some year-long goals. I’ve made almost half of them – and that’s almost entirely goals I made for work. Whether that’s this blog, Patreon, or other forms of content I make. It’s been a pretty amazing second year of doing this weird …