Category: books

Week of 1 June 2026 A few years ago I read Sarah Wilson’s book on the climate catastrophe, This Wild and Precious Life, and I wrote a blog post about it at the start of 2021. I wrote about how every year, everyone kept wanting to chalk up the...

Week of 18 May 2026 This week I went to the QUEER AS ART exhibition at Salamanca Social. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Queer as...

Week of 19 January 2026 I’ve been reading Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks, a book I’ve written about at length on here. I bought this book when it was first published (I was going to write ‘last year’ but it was 2024), and...

Week of 24 November 2025 The week started off great and ended with me succumbing to a head cold on Sunday. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human...

Week of 17 November 2025 This week I went to two very different book launches, one I had planned for a while and one at the last minute. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring...

Week of 13 October 2025 I had this week off work. Hurrah! It was the week after school holidays. It’s weird. Now I don’t have a school-age child living at home, I have no idea when school holidays is and the only way I notice is there is less...

Week of 6 October 2025 It was a loud week. Too loud. I didn’t do much. Sometimes it’s good to chill a bit. This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my...

Week of 23 June 2025 This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Good news! She’s dead! The Witch of the West is dead! The wickedest witch there...

This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice. Week of 2 June 2025 An interesting week. This happened in Parliament. ISLAND The Menzies Institute for Medical Research, which...