Today is my Dad’s birthday, he would have been 77. My Aunt was 75 this year, my Dad never reached 75 and he was her older brother. I guess I’m a bit stuck on that, probably because he was stuck on getting older than his Dad. Had a drink with my sister and Mum over … Read More
My Aunt died this morning. Though I have had a lot of women in my life I called Aunty she was my only actual Aunt. She didn’t like me much. To be fair a lot of people who were adults when I was a kid didn’t like me much, I was very annoying. I also … Read More
Sometimes I feel things very strongly and right in the moment that they’re happening. These moments are few and far between and though they aren’t exclusively sexual that remains the place I am closest to having baseline human normal emotions. I am trying to do this whole unmasking thing by acknowledging my emotions as they … Read More
And brace. Strictly has no same sex couples this season. Well maybe the celebrities asked didn’t match up for that to be a thing? I wouldn’t stress about it except that they released a statement saying it was because they wanted to return to traditional something or others… what? Values? Good old fashioned homophobia? ‘Traditional’, … Read More
It’s the utter waves like water of The Swamp that I hate. Woke up this morning with more apologies than a Canadian and figured that that really was going to be it for today. I’m just incredibly sad with no reason why. Trying to explain what I do for work is miserable, there’s always been … Read More
(Content Warning: Contains Spoilers for Spirited Away both the movie and definitely the stage show) (I’m serious about the spoilers) We were told several times that we were not allowed to photograph or film the show but this didn’t seem to apply to the stage decor before the show started. When Cuddles suggested the stage … Read More
Wow there were a lot of women… oh wait… wow there was an even split of men and women and it felt like that was a lot especially because they were allowed to talk, be more than the romantic lead and have genuinely useful skills. I really hope that when the Tiny Yokai grows up … Read More
I’ve been doing Duolingo six years now, six years and five languages. I took something of a break from the owl but I did keep up listening to podcasts in the same languages to try and embed the vocabulary. I think it’s the gamification of the owl that keeps me at it… well that and … Read More
Honestly if you’d asked me a couple of years ago if I was a fan of Annie Nightingale I’d have said no. I still don’t describe myself as such, but I was surprised by how saddened I was to hear of her death. Then I got a bit of a shock, because honestly I was … Read More
I think I know why the ‘I want to believe’ thing bugs me. It comes across as patronising, there’s something about it that reads like whoever is saying it is looking at me like I’m three and having very literal belief in Father Christmas. I know they do, or I suppose you do depending on … Read More
