On Friday this week, it will be the fifth annual Wear Yellow Day for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and the third year running that I have chatted about it here on the blog. In previous years, I have…
In a couple of days I’ll hit a bit of a mini milestone: I’ll reach the grand old age of 34 and officially enter my mid-30’s. I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about it, or if I’d feel…
Today marks not only the welcome end of an INCREDIBLY warm week, it’s also the fourth annual CF Trust Wear Yellow Day which is your chance to get involved and support a great cause by posting your ‘yelfie’. Wear something…
CN: Mental health chat A few weeks ago I got some quick photos of this outfit, which I felt quite nice wearing, and wrote a straight forward little review post about it not long after. It wasn’t one…
***This is a guest post by Andrew Godfrey-Meers, a PhD student writing about comics, disability and performance at the University of Dundee. Find him on Twitter here. All NHS demo photography c/o Andrew Godfrey-Meers. *** The NHS & Me…
As I’m sure you’ll know by now, this Sunday is Mother’s Day in the UK. I’m not usually too sentimental about it, but my Mum reeeeeeeally is; me and my brother are on pain of death to never…
I bloody love engagement stories. The small ones, the silly ones, the magical ones. The grand gestures, the intimate ones and the ones caught on video that go viral; I lap that shit up. I didn’t always love to…
Events feel like they are in free fall right now, history is happening at a rate of knots and it’s very difficult to keep up, or keep from getting overwhelmed by it all. I’ll admit, over the past…
Image from Hideyuki Katsumata exhibiton, DCA, 2015 My non-New Year’s New Year resolution was to be upfront about the chronic illness I live with. It feels important to show it and talk about it, especially just now when…
So this is it, my last post of 2016. What a ride it’s been! To round off the year I decided to check out my blog stats for the last 12 months and find out which of my posts have been…
As promised, here’s the second instalment of my tattoo series, a feature requested by you! This month I’m talking about the tattoos I most often get asked about, the ones that make up my half sleeve. I…
Last week an exciting new online magazine, She Might Be, launched in the UK. Why is this one exciting, you might ask? Well, it’s the first of it’s kind in that it focuses on plus size fashion, beauty…
