Smear, Far, Wherever You Are.

Hello team! Just a quick disclaimer: Please remember that in this post, I talk about my experiences and mine alone. I understand that not everyone will have the same experience as me. Some people may experience more pain and discomfort than me. Some people may not feel any at all. Some people (probably) enjoy it. …

  Part One Over Here! Soon after getting home, we discovered that my parents weren’t best pleased when that surprise turned out to be a puppy. “What the bloody hell have you got a dog for?!” Said my dad “What are you going to do with him while you’re at work?” Said my mum Both …

 “I’d like to get a therapy dog,” I said, “I miss dogs. I don’t feel right without them.” I’d gone from being surrounded by dogs on all angles - working with them every day, and then coming home to our Barney every evening. All that had gone - Barney had gone to the Rainbow Bridge …

2017 – What The Hell Was That?

Well, 2017 has been a weird old year, hasn’t it? I mean, it started out with good intentions - despite a questionable entry to New Year’s Day that involved about eighteen beers, a few very strong passion fruit martinis, waking up in a room I’d never seen before, vomiting continuously into an orange B&Q bucket, …

Look at this happy kidney, and other Uncommon Goods

Here we are at last - September. The kids are back at school, the longer nights are beginning to draw in, there is the tiniest hint of a chill in the air and I’m starting to crave various flavours of soup of an evening. I realise that we still have a few remnants of what …

The Trials and Tribulations of Being Diagnosed With an Incurable Illness

Up until 5th April 2017, I was a distinctly average 23 year old. Average height, average weight, slightly below average shoe size and generally nothing to write home about. I was two months into the Salon Manager promotion that I’d been pursuing for the past two years, was working full time as a dog groomer …

Six Ways Of Dealing With A Break Up In The Most Dignified And Noble Way Possible.

It hasn't escaped my notice that the title of this blog post teamed up with the title of my last blog post is somewhat ironic. So the long and the short of it all is that my cynicism towards Valentine’s Day as a concept has proven to be well rooted, as my would-be relationship to …

I Don’t Really Know How To Feel About Valentine’s Day

What's this? Two posts in quick succession? What a new and novel concept. On the subject of novel concepts, it was Valentine's Day yesterday. I still can't work out how I feel about it - I remember being being unnecessarily cynical about it as teenager but I can never quite work out why. I seem …

Not Worth Reading – Part One

If you know me well, you’ll know that I have been known to describe myself as a writer. Cringe. There is of course one major issue with this claim – it’s very rare that I ever seem to write anything. Thus I find myself here – in an ambiently lit bar-slash-cafe in the middle of […]