I have taken a bit of a hiatus from blogging recently. This is why. After hearing more about the unfolding refugee crisis, particularly some horrific stories of what refugees were enduring as they arrived on the Greek Islands, I felt I had to to do something. A friend had set up Sussex Refugee Solidarity and through […]
One of the things I’ve been trying out lately is doing some writing. There is a great game you can play with another person who wants to do some writing where you give each other three objects or prompts and and you have to try and include these in your story. I find it a […]
A while ago now, I did a tarot reading for Polly from The Forest Mermaid. This was my first online Skype reading, which I found surprisingly nerve-wracking- I think I keep forgetting that I have anxiety! Polly is extremely lovely, we talk all the time on Twitter and it was really nice to speak to […]
I have never posted about politics on my blog before, even though I consider myself to be extremely interested in politics. But I can’t ignore the horrific images that I’m seeing on a daily basis: of children separated from their families on the border of Macedonia; of toddlers washed up on the beach; of babies […]
Some of you may remember my Perfect Strangers post, where I made up a box of goodies for a stranger. I’m a bit sad because not only did my swap partner not send me a parcel, my parcel that I sent them was returned to me after not being collected from the Post Office:(. I […]