The Old New Year’s Resolutions
HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I hope you have all had a lovely, relaxing holiday period and that you feel hopeful about the year ahead. I’m feeling lighter than I have in a long time and for the first time in...
View ArticleA Lot Has Been Happening
My sincerest apologies for not posting in so long. Life has been hectic and difficult and busy and strange. It’s been really difficult to write, to write anything at all (apart from my diary, which...
View Article19 for 2019 Reviewed
In January, I was inspired to try the 19 for 2019 challenge, setting myself nineteen goals to achieve by the end of the year. They didn’t have to be massive goals; they could be one off things to...
View ArticlePlans For My Empty Semester
Because of the way my course is organised for part time students, I now have a semester without classes while the full time students do their third semester. I’ve been looking forward to this, not just...
View ArticleA(nother) Week In My Life (In Lockdown)
It hasn’t been that long since my last week-in-my-life post but life is so different week to week at the moment that I thought I’d do another one once I started to see how the week was turning out. I...
View ArticleThe Empty Semester of My Masters – The Other Side
Back in June, I made a post about what had been my plans for the empty semester of my Masters and how I’d adjusted those plans according to the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. I was still hopeful...
View ArticleThings I Did In Lockdown
Given how stressful I was finding the pandemic and the lockdown, I thought it might be helpful to keep a list of what I’d done (achieved, managed, spent time on – whichever word is most appropriate),...
View ArticleCelebrating My 26th Birthday in Lockdown
When we went into lockdown in March, I never thought that I’d be celebrating my birthday (roughly six months later) still in lockdown. I just hadn’t thought that far ahead. I know that lockdown has...
View ArticleThe Resurgence of My Body-Focussed Repetitive Behaviours
TW: Mentions of Trichotillomania, Dermatillomania, and self harm. Over the last twenty months – the period dominated by my latest depressive episode – my hair pulling has been much less of a problem,...
View ArticleSeptember 2023 in Photos
It’s been ages since I did a photo challenge and I’ve always really enjoyed them so I thought it was about time I revisited the practice. So here we are. This is my September, guided by the Planner...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....