Depression · Life · mental health

Caution: Fragile


I'm not feeling at my best at the moment. It's been rumbling away in the background for a while and I have been doing my best to hold it off but this last couple of weeks it has caught up with me and I'm sinking. I haven't been sleeping well for a while - I've… Continue reading Caution: Fragile

Just For Fun · Life

73 Questions With Carole


So, apparently Vogue does this 73 questions thing (with interesting, famous people) and it's really popular and people across the bloggosphere have been joining in because it's something to post when you're in a January slump good fun. I like not having to think up new and original ideas in January personality quizzes and things… Continue reading 73 Questions With Carole

Life

5 Things I Hate About Winter


1. It's Dark. All. The. Time. Or at least that's how it feels sometimes. Through January and February it feels like days can pass without you seeing the sun - especially if you happen to be indoors at sunrise and sunset, which seems to be the only time the sun shows its face half the… Continue reading 5 Things I Hate About Winter

Life

What A Week…


Let no-one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men ~ Quintus Ennius This week has not been a good one for the arts and music community of Great Britain and beyond - mourning the loss of both David… Continue reading What A Week…

Family · Music · Music I Want My Children To Listen To · Parenting

Arthur Has An Earworm…


He has two, actually. They have been rotating since about a week before Christmas, interspersed between Jingle Bells and The Imperial March which are less earworms and more just like breathing when you're a four-year-old Arthur. They are not earworms I expected him to get - though I must say that I approve of his… Continue reading Arthur Has An Earworm…