How To Organise A Horror LARP Weekend

There follow thoughts about role-play but it’s largely intended for people who already role-play. I’ll probably do an entry about role-play for people who don’t at some point but this may not hold your interest if you don’t. I got to play this weekend. It’s a very different perspective. I’ve GM’d a lot of table … Read More


Hormonal Shift

So, I’m a woman who has had something of a sex life (insert appreciative sound here eg. phoar/and how!/woohoo!/get some! etc.etc.) and has been fairly obsessive over the years with contraception. Back when I went into my doctors aged fourteen with incredibly painful periods I got put on the pill and after changing pills a … Read More


Privacy and the Internet

So, first I thought I was going to write about how thoroughly annoyed all the stuff with William Hague has made me. Then I half heard a guy spouting off on Radio Four this morning about how the internet has made us all incapable of deep thoughts. Unfortunately I had to turn off before I … Read More


How I Write Poems

I doubt this will interest many people but I’ve had enough questions and conversations that I thought it warranted a blog post. Often when I write I just dash something off. I don’t write about people and events mostly (contrary to popular opinon), what I usually write about is feelings and emotions. Certainly events and … Read More


Nerves and Peru

This entry is bitty as all hell, reflected my state of mind because it’s next week that I’m off to Peru. A brand new week and I am incredibly excited. I know it’s only for three weeks (yes, in an ideal world, especially given that I have no job to come back to, we’d be … Read More


Slang

As a fan of the Chalet School books and a reader of Little Women I was exposed early on to the notion that slang was somehow bad. Also at about the age of six I used the term ‘real’ instead of ‘really’ in front of my Great Uncle and was accused of sounding American. This … Read More


P45s and Holiday Pay

So…I currently work as a temp for a firm of Jugglers in Steam Town. Obviously the temping agency, lets call them ‘Decisions Decisions’ is based in Castle Moon…and it’s them rather than the Jugglers that have slightly worried me. I’m heading off to Peru, trekking through the Andes, raising money for Marie Curie et al … Read More


Blogging

It’s been a while hasn’t it? As Erfie notes a little further down I really haven’t used this in a while. My problem with blogging is, and always has been – privacy. Now me, I actively want to tell the world everything about myself. I don’t care for being judged, although I know that that’s … Read More


Which Tarot Card?!

You are The Magician Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity. Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive. The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them … Read More


My Ambition In Life

Ever since I can remember I have wanted to be a writer. Most people who read this blog know this and it’s one of the reasons my poetry pops up on Livejournal on a semi-regular basis. I have got close over the years because, whilst I am happy writing, and can’t imagine a life not … Read More