Life in General

  • Here’s some odds and ends:

  • I’ve wanted to write about some happier things for the last few days, but my mind has been very much…

  • I realised recently how much I miss getting comments and having conversations on this blog. I know that people read…

  • So I moved back to Kent last week. (I’m knackered after travelling round Germany for three weeks and then moving…

  • I return to the UK for good next week (?!?) after a year spent mostly abroad. It will be back…

  • Also I haven’t been updating this blog as much lately, because I’ve just been so busy. I went to Croatia,…

  • On Thursday I go off to spend 6 weeks in Central Europe. One week in Brno in the Czech Republic,…

  • I wouldn’t say I was particularly tidy, but I do like to keep my living environment clean. I spent a…

  • I spent a low-stress and low-key Christmas with my friend Vicky up in Manchester, and have returned to Kent over…

  • So Donald Trump just about won the US election, continuing the exhausting and depressing downwards trajectory of 2016, and the…

  • So it’s October now. The last few weeks I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Kent and Sussex. Job-hunting is…

  • No posts for a week. I stayed with my dad for most of last week to go to a family wedding,…

  • My mother lives in a small town in Northern France called Lassay-les-Châteaux. For a few years she’s had a holiday…

  • The good thing about spending the summer in a small town full of old people is that there are a…

  • The past few weeks haven’t really given me time for blogging. I’ve been helping with house-clearances, writing a proposal for…

  • I haven’t written here for a while. Life has been very busy, and apart from a holiday to Italy, generally…

  • I’ve been very busy this week. On Wednesday I moved all my stuff out of London and into storage until…

  • My life has been both turbulent and boring at the same time lately, and I haven’t been writing here, as…

  • I haven’t posted here for nearly a month now. Family illness, upcoming major life changes, unsuccessful job hunts and other…

  • I haven’t updated here in a while. I worked long hours throughout January and also moved house. I’ve also now…

  • I’m not going anywhere tonight. I’ve never been much of one for NYE, and my options for tonight included spending…

  • I’m at my dad’s place for a couple of days over Christmas, I’m not feeling at all festive this year…

  • In 2015 I’ve worked long hours in the day job (+ spending the spare time I did have in the…

  • Here’s some nice things I’ve found lately. Starting with this stop-motion cooking video by PES Studios.

  • I haven’t updated my blog since August. Since July I’ve moved house, worked in Cambridge teaching a summer camp, then worked…

  • People who don’t make or read them much themselves sometimes ask me why I still make zines, even though the…

  • Last weekend I went up to Manchester to do a stall and run a Zine 101 workshop at the first…

  • I refuse to apologise for that pun, you’ll just have to suffer. Here is a photo I took of myself…

  • For quite a while now, I’ve been part of the DIY Space for London co-op, working to open a non-profit,…

  • For the past few months I’ve been weighing up whether to stay in London or to leave. I’ve lived here…

  • This weekend I’m going up to Yorkshire to run a table and workshop at the Sheffield Zine Fest (Facebook event here)…

  • I often like to get some fresh air in my lunch break by walking along the canal near my work.…

  • I actually attended this funeral/memorial for children’s writer Diana Wynne Jones over 2 years ago. I had meant to write…

  • So now it’s 2015, the year of the future. I expect a fax to pop out of somewhere unexpected any…

  • I have kept scrapbooks like this since about 2002, sticking in things like ticket stubs, catalogues from art exhibitions, food…

  • More like wake and talk and work and talk and work lately. I’ve been working teaching on a residential course…