I’ve written about gender a lot over the years. I’ve gone from describing myself as having opted out of the gender question to being loudly comfortable with my gender as having been constructed by both myself and the society around me. Currently I have a partner who is transsexual, she has a boyfriend who is … Read More

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Pagan Blog Project 2013, yep I’m trying again this year – here’s hoping I make it all the way through to Z this year! Last year for A I wrote about Altars and Aphrodite. Feel free to check those entries out. Apples might seem to be an odd subject to write about from a pagan … Read More

This is the year that people will be able to describe me as an artist. I am determined. They may not describe me as a very good one, or they might depending on how awesome I become. But I have been actively preventing my own creativity out of guilt, stress and generally bad mental health. … Read More

Largely because I like the BBC TV series Sherlock I got interested in Louise Brealy (see I told you I wasn’t just perving over Benedict Cumberbatch!) She doesn’t just act either, she writes too! This morning i ended up reading this piece that she wrote on how she felt taking her clothes off to play … Read More

Holding parties is something that I regard as a skill of mine, one that has been gradually honed over the years. Last night I, unsurprisingly, heald a party – this tends to be what I do at New Year following Byron’s departure to Warrington (about five years ago) and a conversation with M-i-L about four … Read More

Ok. 1. To lose three and a half stone or however much turns out to be healthy. 2. To give a proof-readable manuscript to a friend. 3. To write daily. 4. To tidy the house.

1.What did you do in 2012 that you’d never done before? Organised a LARP event over a large area. 2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? 1. No, but I was ill so that’s my excuse 2. Yes. 3. Not yet, still trying. 4. No, I’m … Read More

If you’re of a sensitive disposition I’m discussing all sorts of bodily functions in here and using my personal experience as examples. I think if these things make you feel uncomfortable then you would probably get something from continuing to read. Jenni Murray does not often annoy me, in fact I rather adore her sensible … Read More

So I woke up and The Today programme was attempting to have a debate on abortion, I say attempting because the woman they had on for the pro-choice side, Suzanne Moore, was incredibly awful. She spoke over the chair and the other side after having complained when he did that to her. I agreed when … Read More