A Spiral Dance | Living an Unconventional Life

Community Spirit• Health & Wellbeing

The Online Spoonie Community is Valid and Important

Review of Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Fibromyalgia/CFS• Health & Wellbeing

Introducing M.E. Friends – a monthly zoom call for those affected by M.E.

Community Spirit• Health & Wellbeing

The Online Spoonie Community is Valid and Important

September 13, 2022

A white woman with dark hair is resting in bed wearing headphones and looking at her phone.

The past couple of weeks have seen several high profile attacks against the online Spoonie Community, and so I decided it was time to write a post about its importance and validity.…

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The book Sistersong by Lucy Holland. On the cover there are line drawings in blue, white, and yellow, depicting a character wearing a gold head band looking towards the reader, and two other characters behind them. The one on the left is facing left and their hair is like waves in water. The one on the right is looking right and their hair looks like flames.

Review of Sistersong by Lucy Holland

September 10, 2022

An illustration of a man sitting cross legged and holding a laptop, with a ginger cat beside him. Behind him is a large screen showing 4 different characters on a conference call. Above the image are the words M.E. Friends

Fibromyalgia/CFS• Health & Wellbeing

Introducing M.E. Friends – a monthly zoom call for those affected by M.E.

A copy of the book Perception Check is being held up in front of the camera by someone sitting in a wooden gazebo. You can see a garden in the background behind it. The book has a dark red cover with a diamond shape cut out, with a girl with dark brown hair turned away from the viewer. She is wearing a red beanie hat and is looking at two worlds, the one on the left looks like a modern city, the one on the right looks like a medieval fantasy land. Around her are crystals, flames, leaves, and a cloud with lightning coming out of it.

Book Review• Books• LGBTQ+• Reviews

Review of Perception Check by Astrid Knight

A graphic with 10 books on and the words My 10 favourite LGBTQ+ Fiction Books (so far...)

Books• LGBTQ+

My 10 Favourite LGBTQ+ Fiction Books (That I’ve Read So Far…)

A graphic illustration with an orange background and a rainbow falling into 6 characters standing in a line at the bottom right, all standing in a line and looking to the left. They are in rainbow colours, as in the person on the far left is red, the next person is orange, the next person is yellow, then green, blue, and purple. Above them are the words "support queer owned businesses" in white text. Beside them is the hashtag #pridemonth.

Queer Owned Businesses to Support During Pride

A pale yellow background with a book on the left hand side called Early Bird Special by Priscilla Goins and text on the right which reads "A delightful romance set in a retirement community in Miami... Come and meet Delores - you're going to love her!" The front cover of the books shows a one storey house with a pink and yellow front and a yellow door. There is a palm tree and shrubs in front of it and the sky is a pale blue.

Review of Early Bird Special by Priscilla Goins

January 22, 2022

A read painted heart with a white border on a bright yellow background.

“I Am Unapologetically Me” – My Affirmation for 2022

January 1, 2022

A grid of book covers, with 3 rows of books with 5 books in each row. The books are as follows - top row - fangirl, Simon vs the homosapiens agenda, as far as you'll take me, carry on, perfect on paper. middle row, felix ever after, loveless, not quite out, cemetery boys, the house on the cerulean sea. bottom row, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, pet, untouched, autoboyography, cherrington academy.

All The Fiction Books I Read In 2021

December 29, 2021

A hardback copy of the book Untouched by Jayme Bean, which is a dark brown cover with a face on it covered in vines and the words "some places are better left untouched" in white font

Book Review• Books• LGBTQ+• Reviews

Review of Untouched by Jayme Bean

September 23, 2021

Sometimes I Wish I Could Care Less…

September 21, 2021

A white woman with long dark hair, is sprawled across an unmade bed. She is wearing a white shirt and black shorts and covering her face with her arms. It is a vision of despair, the best I could find to express the trauma of PIP

Health & Wellbeing• Politics

The Trauma of PIP(Personal Independence Payment)

September 2, 2021

A selection of books to read instead of Harry Potter, including from left to right and top to bottom, Strange The Dreamer, Raybearer, Shadow and Bone, Akata Witch, Percy Jackson, Amari and The Night Brothers, The Frost Eater, Cemetery Boys, Earthsea, Wee Free Men, The Hunger Games, The Magician's Guild, Wild Magic, Magnus Chase, and Sorcery of Thorns

Middle Grade and Young Adult Books to read instead of Harry Potter

August 13, 2021

The book The Shield Road by Dewi Hargreaves is being held and rested on my legs as I sit in the garden. The book has a blue cover showing a castle in the distance in front of a full moon. In the foreground the silhouette of a character with a shield on their back crouches under a tree with bare branches.

Book Review• Reviews

Review of The Shield Road by Dewi Hargreaves

a white woman with short dark hair and wearing a blue top is laying in bed with her eye closed.

Health & Wellbeing

You do NOT want my life (don’t risk getting post viral illness)

The book cover for This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron, which shows a black teenager girl wearing a red top and blue jeans and glasses. She is surrounded by plants and vines growing. This is on a dark blue square with white writing that reads, "This Poison Heart is a fascinating YA fantast that mixes modern life with ancient mythology, drawing you into a world of mysteray and leaving you constantly wondering what will happen next". The entire thing is framed by a green rectangle.

Book Review• LGBTQ+

AD | Review of This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron

An image split in half vertically. On the left hand side there is text that reads "I thought I was straight until my partner came out" on a beige background. On the right is a rainbow of colours.

Family Life• LGBTQ+

I thought I was straight until my partner came out

The book Autoboyography by Christina Lauren. The cover shows two silhouettes holding hands and standing on a giant book overlooking a city skyline at night.

Book Review• LGBTQ+• Reviews

Review of Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

A Free Palestine March in Kensington, London. There are people wearing masks (because of Covid) and carrying placards saying Free Palestine.

Resources to Educate Yourself on Israel and Palestine

The book Not Quite Out by Louise Willingham, which has a pale blue front cover with two white male characters drawn on it. One has blond hair and is wearing a blue sweater over a pink shirt and looking towards the reader. The second has brown hair, is wearing glasses and a pinkish purplish shirt and is walking away from the reader but looking back over his shoulder. Next to the book lay a postcard which says "you are tenacious" on it, with 3 horizontal bands of colour in pink, purple, and blue; a blue book plate saying the same thing and which is signed by the author and a blue bookmark with the book's title on it. They are all laying on a piece of dark purple tissue paper.

Book Review• LGBTQ+

Review of Not Quite Out by Louise Willingham

February 2, 2021

a white square with 16 icons on it depicting various forms of disability in black and blue colours. From top left to bottom right these icons are: someone in a wheelchair; a wheelchair in a house; someone in bed; someone helping another person using a cane; an eye with a line drawn diagnonally through it, a pair of dark lensed glasses, two hands using sign language; an ear with two arrows pointing to a hearing aid, someone sitting on a bench, someone using a cane, someone being pushed in a wheelchair; someone using a walking frame; a wheelchair user playing basketball, a wheelchair using a ramp, someone with a prosthetic leg using a cane; and a wheelchair user getting onto a bus.

Health & Wellbeing• Politics

We Need To Talk About Ableism

January 19, 2021

an image split in two, with the left half having a pink background and 3 text boxes that say "7 favourite posts of 2020", "7 think I loved most about 2020" and "7 things I'm looking forward to in 2021" and the right side having a blue background and 4 numbered blocks showing the year 2020 being turned to 2021 by a hand.

General Musings

My Best 7 of 2020 (Vlog)

December 29, 2020

a globe on a desk showing parts of Africa, Asia, and Europe

General Musings• Politics

Living Through History

November 8, 2020

Health & Wellbeing

My favourite resources for the worst days

October 9, 2020

General Musings• Health & Wellbeing

A Year of Change – June and July