Since the pandemic started in March 2020, and we were all either sent home or sent to the frontline to die in the service of the virus, a HUGE amount of my life has taken place via the filter of my laptop camera. This is a shame, as my laptop camera inevitably shows me at … Continue reading Life Online: What I Might Remember
Category: My Terrible Lack of Adulting
Live Lagom – Nature vs Nurture: True Nature (part 2)
Gentle Readers, I swear I didn't MEAN TO KILL HIM. I had the very best of intentions for dear, sweet Cornelius, so lovingly gifted to me. But alas. I must announce my complete lack of nurture ability has led to the demise of Cornelius. He ded. RIP. A moment's silence for my prayer plant, so … Continue reading Live Lagom – Nature vs Nurture: True Nature (part 2)
Fibro fingers
It's arrived. The time of the year when it starts to warm up and my fingers go into...THE CLAW. It was the first symptom I experienced last year, which made me think something wasn't right - my hands, in the warm weather, seize up and get very stiff. Last year, I carried a bottle of … Continue reading Fibro fingers
Double Dispensing Day
Describing me as 'in good health' would be like describing our dear PM as 'possessing a functional brain', or the former PM as 'a kind caring woman who has never eaten a child whole in her life'. To be clear: it would be a lie.* I'm mostly OK with being a walking cliché of health … Continue reading Double Dispensing Day
Things that have cheered me this week
I think it's fair to say that 2016 has been...challenging. Wading through the filth of this year has left me feeling grubby, and more than a little depressed. So this week I set myself a challenge: find things that make me cheerful. Things that made me smile, or laugh, or generally made the day a … Continue reading Things that have cheered me this week
It would only happen to me…
This post *was* going to be a carefully constructed post about Brexit, and my thoughts on it, and where I thought we might go from here. But then I read at the beginning of the week that Vote Leave didn't actually have a plan for post-referendum action, and since at least one of them can … Continue reading It would only happen to me…
Upside Down World
It would be fair to say that time and I have a fairly open relationship. That is to say that time management is not my natural gift...no, wait. That's not true. Give me thirty colleagues and I will time-manage the SHIT out of them. Moreover, everything will happen slightly in advance of when it needs … Continue reading Upside Down World
Reason Number Three
To anyone who knows me in real life, it won't come as a terrible shock to discover that, three years ago, I was diagnosed with depression. And actually, if you've ever met another human being, there's a 50% chance you've met someone who has depression. If you've met lots of human beings, then you have … Continue reading Reason Number Three
International Readers
One of my favourite things about this blog, apart from entertaining you all with my stories of failed adulting, is the Stats page. This page shows me who's reading my blog posts: how many people clicked a link, how many visitors there have been in comparison to views, and, my most favourite thing of all, … Continue reading International Readers
Sharing an Office
One of the reasons I have been absent from these pages, Gentle Readers, is because I have changed jobs this year. I know, it seems almost impossible to believe that the simple act of changing jobs could cause me to forget how to type and post for nearly four months. And yet, that is what … Continue reading Sharing an Office
Loops & Flicks 