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Aug 21, 20231 min read
Happy Families
Over the weekend I outed myself to some more of the extended family as neurodiverse which has been the right thing to do but it makes me...
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Aug 12, 20233 min read
Strong Female Characters (2)
I got back from holiday and there was the magazine to put out. Coincidentally we were short of a book review so I put one together from...
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Aug 2, 20232 min read
A strong holiday read
I’m just back from holiday, I will probably do another post all about holidays and how difficult I find them but for this post I will...
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Jul 18, 20231 min read
A bit more printing
This time, adding a second colour. It’s funny that I spent all week thinking about doing it, putting it off, doing other stuff....then...
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Jul 8, 20232 min read
Music / Art
I am experiencing some similarities between my music and my art. When I first started going to adult education lessons I would find...
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Jul 1, 20233 min read
Migraines or recovery time?
A quiet week. I needed to go slow after my stressful weekend. As I expected I had a migrainous episode after the group cello thing (which...
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Jun 26, 20232 min read
Thumb and second person
I was listening to a vlog today where someone was recommending a book called Chatter by Ethan Kross. I haven’t read it but the vlogger...
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Jun 17, 20232 min read
Cleaning up after printing
I did some more printing this week, trying to ease myself back into it. Last week was using water based inks and this week I went back to...
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Jun 10, 20232 min read
Slow, slow, slow
This week I have been rejigging my studio around to start printing in it (I used to print in our basement before but the cats made it...
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Jun 4, 20231 min read
Back to printing
So let’s have a break from my internal world for a bit and go back to printing! Plans, getting ready. First I’m still needing to set up...
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May 27, 20232 min read
And it's official
Now I am officially neurodiverse! Masked autistic traits with some ADHD. I bloody knew it! My therapist threw the word “neurodiverse”...
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May 21, 20232 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 14, 20232 min read
Printing! I'm meant to be printing!
As always, life takes over what we think we should be doing. I meant to really embark on hand printing but instead got led down other...
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May 11, 20231 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 6, 20233 min read
Migraines and yoga
A week ago I woke up feeling fine, had a quick walk to the shop which was lovely, fresh and peaceful, the birds singing, which was lovely...
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Apr 29, 20232 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 23, 20232 min read
The latest crisis, but it’s not me this time.
One of the insights I picked up in therapy is that stuff I can get really wound up about is often not originating from myself. So an...
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Apr 16, 20233 min read
The body keeps the score
I’ve mentioned the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel Van der Kolk before, about how the body displays outward manifestations of...
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Apr 9, 20231 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 2, 20232 min read
Cello and horses
Busy old week with two very different enterprises. So a few weeks ago I had mentioned my continuing preoccupation about the cello. The...
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