Happy (?) June!

It's going to be a struggle to see June as anything resembling its usual positive self. But alas, the pages in the calendar keep turning and we're finally into the sixth month of this hell year. Weather you were here Here in Scotland we've had a scorching weekend and it looks set to continue today. …

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Moving into 2020!

Happy New Year! I've been ridiculously busy and was ill (again) around Christmas time. Only had a couple of days off work and then into the new year... I beat the post-Christmas blues by taking two weeks holiday from work - and moving house! It's been hard and I'm nowhere near completely moved yet, but …

Winter is here

So winter in Scotland is hard enough, we don't really get an autumn it just hits September and gets ridiculously cold, then October happens and the cold bites into your bones. Every year without fail, it happens and I think it can't possibly get any colder... then November arrives and it does. I'm a November …

Dissertation Update #9

I guess I forgot to write this on submission day, but it's been all over for more than a month and I'm just now feeling the relief that it's all finished. My university career is over! Wtf?! The last few weeks before October 3rd were awful and some of the worst in my life, and …

Just Keep Swimming

I'm still not better. Last night I slept for ten hours, got up and went for a blood test, struggled to eat a single bagel then two hours after getting up I fell back asleep for four and a half hours! Plus I was shivering - even under two heavy quilts and three blankets. Gah! …

Figurative Ledges

So the summer is drawing to a close and there's not been much to speak of weather-wise. I've been working, studying, and beating myself up about all the other things I don't have time or energy to do - including blogging. I'm currently still in the process of recovering from the worst bout of Tonsilitis …

Have you met Dippy?

Meet Dippy the Diplodocus. He's on tour around the UK having left the Natural History Museum in London for the first time since 1905. His show is on the road until 2020 and is next heading to Newcastle on 18th May, having just wrapped up a several month stint in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and …

Hiatus

So I went quiet for a while... Things got a bit dark; dragons and ineffective coffee - I even stopped playing the Sims. I couldn't post on social media (not properly), everything I thought seemed to bland and uninteresting to tell anyone about. Like I said, darkness and dragons. But, I've slowly regained my spark, …

Resolutions 2019

I didn't get to post this before the new year started, but what the hell, better late than never. My first resolution is to read more! There are so many times in the last year where I got too in-my-own-head about the future and things I can't control which would have been alleviated at least, …