So, a while ago The Philosopher challenged me to go vegan for November. I figured I’d give it a go, not because I object per se to eating animals but because I am considering my position regarding eating ethically. So today I had: Mushrooms on toast – Of course my brain really missed them being … Read More

I’m angry today. Really bloody furious. Partly that’s a hormonal over-reaction, partly genuinely reasonable anger. The notion of my having kids, occasionally comes up and right now all that I can think regarding the subject is that the world and the country I live in are such completely terrible places that why on earth would … Read More

The status quo should be questioned. Everything. The only way to work out what’s right and what’s wrong is to examine things from first principles. The problem with examining and re-examining from first principles is that sometimes what you end up doing may seem to the outside to be desctructive. If you’re scared then love. … Read More

I follow an awful lot of LGBT activists on my twitter feed. (Go on, you know you want to follow me I’m @luvlymish – obviously!) A few months ago there was a lot of noise about a particular issue (as there is periodically). This was that Zoe Quinn – apparently a game developer – had … Read More

The trick to recovery is to recognise it as a process. The energy flows back and it’s so tempting to think ‘I’m fine now I will now do ALL THE THINGS’ and queue collapse of course. I’m back to running, even properly excercising thirty minutes a day, which should, eventually, assuming I’m right about where … Read More

I could see it coming a mile off. All along my facebook feed I was watching it get closer and closer and then finally Goat nominated me. The first time I saw it I didn’t like it, it was an American friend of a friend who’d challenged my friend and it left me with a … Read More

I was very happy last year that they figured out what was wrong with me and made me better. Thing is, recovery isn’t a binary state (unrecovered/recovered) it’s a bloody process and right now I’ve done too much, I’m beginning to lose my footing and I need to stop and get a grip and get … Read More

Weasel and I are headed up into the Lakes – cannot express how I am looking forward to our weekend.

Last year I moved on from ‘I want to be a writer’ to ‘I am a writer’, not due to anything suddenly being published but due to the fact that I write. Also partly due to the fact that with the help of Quiet Mike I’ve actually deliberately given some writing to someone else for … Read More

I looked back over last years resolutions and I was pretty sure that I’m further along with all of them but I’ve not yet managed to complete them. So I’m sticking with them until I’m done and I think that that’s enough.