So tonight I cried about a close friend dying. Don’t feel sorry about me, a close friend of mine hasn’t died. An NPC friend of my roleplaying character Suzanne has. I was taken by surprise as to how much I am invested in this character, I mean I knew I was, but when I heard … Read More

I had my fears about going back to the Green County for Christmas, they were all unfounded. Christmas at home was fine, and Boxing Day over at the Ex-Leprechaun’s place was lovely. Grandma has finally me The Jellicle Cat – we had a late afternoon tea together and they seemed to get on, which made … Read More

It’s one of these. Haven’t done this in a while although, this entry has been building almost all year. If you want to skip it (and it’s going to be a long one) then just know that this year has been the happiest and the most painful year of my life. It would have been … Read More

Oh shit. The discovery that my maths is worse than I thought is made even worse when I discover that I’d totally miscalculated what was in my bank account. Next year I’m earning money, screw the career attempts my priority is earning actual money. Edit: And then there’s that other feeling which comes from realising … Read More

The woman who had more roles than anyone else and appeared in almost every version of Star Trek passed away this week. R.I.P Majel Barrett Rodenberry. Come on, it was a good line – ‘The network wanted me to get rid of the Martian and the woman so I kept the Vulcan and married the … Read More

So, you know those moments, when you manage to totally freak yourself out…and then you wonder – did I just do that or was that really there? Yeah, took a shortcut through Williamson Park today, now mundane friends have given me mundane reasons that this is a bad plan and magical friends have given me … Read More

Everyone under 35 is being offered an MMR jab because there’s a measles scare at the moment around Blackpool and in the North West generally. The nurse caught me offguard earlier and I’ve been jabbed.

I am who I am because of millions of women who have gone before me. It’s taken a long time but I am comfortable, emphatically comfortable and happy to be a woman. I’m a certain type of woman as well. I’m a historian, or at least part of me is, Ican’t help but look back … Read More

I learnt about the perfection of moments four years ago Ladies and Gentlemen we are floating in space… and that’s the point. Life is made of moments and this moment, looking over M-i-L and meeting the slightly tired eyes of FJ, was perfect for no reason at all than those moments which preceded it and … Read More

So I was depressed in my late teens, yadadayada etc. And yeah I mean actually depressed as in with a prescription and everything, not that I think that proves a whole lot actually. Anyway, I’m reasonably sure I can count up all sorts of contributing factors that ended up with me snapping into the melancholy … Read More