Hello all, I know it’s been a while! In fact, it’s been exactly two years since my last post in 2020 which, incidentally, I also posted on my birthday (Yes, it’s today!) 47 and counting… Happy Birthday me!!!! 🙂 To be honest I am not even sure where or how to start this post. At …
Every little bit helps….
For the last 3 months, since I lost my job due to the virus, I have been living off the UK government-funded Furlough pay. It has made me very aware of how grateful I am to be living in a country that was able to support me during this COVID 19 period. It also made …
The Stars Are Aligning
Approximate reading time: 60 minutes Hello all, I’m back!!👏 Apologies that it’s been six months since my last post! To be honest it has kind of felt like my creativity-well dried up. I would be lying if I said I have even thought about writing during that time. But now, I think I am ready …
It’s just hair.
Approximate reading time is 12 min For the last 6 weeks (pretty much my entire Summer holiday😯) I have been applying for modelling and casting jobs. I haven’t really been discriminant… if I fit the age, height and size criteria then I applied. (uuhmmm…ok… if I didn’t fit the age criteria I still applied😏) During …
What I learnt from 6 months in Nursery. (Part 2)
Approximate reading time is 30 min All eyes on you Towards the end of the last term, I took an assembly with my nursery children and the two reception classes. At the end of the assembly I put up a YouTube video of one of the songs that we always sing and then I sat …
What I learnt from 6 months of teaching Nursery. (Part 1)
Approximate Reading time – 25min When I signed up with my supply teaching agencies at the beginning of the year, I had two very explicit instructions: No teens, preteens or anything remotely related to teens. (People always comment on how much patience I must have working with children, but let me set the record straight: …
Dating stories- Part 2
Reading time is 25 minutes Take-Two with Amos Fast forward to the next weekend, another meet- up and who should I bump into but Amos. I met Amos about 4 months ago at one of my first ever meetups. I wrote about the night where we spent most of the evening dancing together and then …
Dating stories…Part 1
Reading time is 20 minutes Oh my God, I feel like I’m so backlogged with dating stories. I’m like 4 weeks behind already…..sometimes I get carried away with all this deep shit, like loneliness and life lessons. 😂 I mean I do secretly love my deep shit, really! But writing dating stories is so much …
Accepting loneliness, Embracing solitude
Reading time: 25 minutes I recently finished reading a book by Gail Honeyman called ‘Eleanor Oliphant is just fine.’ It’s definitely a very interesting read about a woman who struggles with the basic logistics of everyday life. Having had an abusive mother as a child she was consequently moved from foster home to foster home …
DeAd Cool!
Reading time: 25 minutes I left London in 2010 to move back to South Africa and I swore blind that there was no way in hell I would ever, ever be moving back here. When I eventually decided to move here last year, it was a “grin and bear” it choice based mainly on my …