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July 2026 in photos
Feeling lost and uncertain whilst trying to love these things Working on redesigning my blog/personal site into something new. Looking back over my old posts makes me sad. I got Long Covid in 2020. I only got a diagnosis in 2026, February to be exact. Comparing how much I used to go out, how much…
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Spring excitement, warmth and old friends
Today was a wonderful time, for the first warmth in the sun that peeped out from behind the clouds. The angle of the light is gaining height meaning that the days will soon be longer. There is a promise of spring, in the air, in the soil and in the beautiful colours of tiny dandelions…
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January 2026… a beginning and not sure where to start.
Being sectioned, again, was an experience I don’t really know how to talk about yet. I’ve had many inpatient admissions in the last six years and a reasonable number of section detentions. You think you know how they are going to go. Consider yourself an old hand. Then something appears unexpectedly, and sideswipes whatever stability…
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Current Mood: Shit, so I wrote a poem
** * * * * * * * * * * * The dreams of death and dying. The emptiness inside. This place in which I’m hiding, whilst life carries on outside. That love and life and meaning, with which I just can’t coincide. When all I have are these dreams of death and dying…
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2021 – What a hell of a year…
It’s been a while since I posted here, not because of a lack of good intentions but simply because there was barely enough time to breathe last year, let alone find the time to update my website. I returned to work at the end of 2020 to begin a PhD at the University of Nottingham…
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If you think you’re beaten you are…
A rather fab poem that I return to from time to time when I am feeling deflated. I like the sentiment. It reminds me to keep going and enjoy the journey. “If you think you are beaten, you are If you think you dare not, you don’t, If you like to win, but you think…
