As a child, I regularly regaled my Mum with affirmations of visiting Cornwall. Even then I felt an affinity to the most Southern county of the UK. Each time, she rebuked these claims, maintaining that we had never visited Cornwall. This was something I refused to accept wholly, the connection…

One of my January reads came about after I signed up to an online Guardian Book Club with George Saunders. I had not heard of George before signing up for it, but it was a gamble well worth taking. Not only was the book, Lincoln in the Bardo, an interesting…

Today, Powys County Council brought proposals to close four schools to Cabinet. Two of the four schools are in the Montgomeryshire area and one of them, Churchstoke C.P. School, is the school my children attend. We moved to the village at the end of August 2020. It was a monumental…

It’s been over five years since I became a Special Needs Parent. Five long (and often challenging) years of advocating for a child who cannot use her own voice. Five years of learning how to navigate a life of hospital appointments, blood tests, speech therapy, EHCP’s, SAPRA’s. …

Welcome to February’s Weight Loss Wednesday. I can categorically state that while January wasn’t an all-out failure, it wasn’t a success either. I ended January 0.2kg heavier than I started it… Throughout the month, I lost weight, gained weight, and overall sabotaged my own progress. What worked well in January? In short, very little actually…

This post contains affiliate buttons for Bookshop.org, an online bookshop that supports independents and authors. If you buy through one of the links on this post, I will receive a small commission from your purchase. As we enter February it’s a good time to reflect on everything book related that…

This week my prompt was ‘The Vessel’. I wondered what I could possibly write about. It was a challenge coming up with something so I took one of my passions and created a story set 3000 years ago. The scene comes from Mitchell’s Fold Stone Circle, just a few miles…

The third lockdown has wreaked havoc with my motivation and drive to get things done. It has resulted in me binge-watching again — something I haven’t done in so long I can’t put a time to it. …

Love After Love is not the type of book that would typically make my reading list. Still, as it was included with January’s A Box of Stories box, I felt compelled to give it a go… however, I was left empty. …