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I walk with my eyes on the hedgerows and edges. I’m a scavenger, a mudlarker, a bottledigger and a hedgewitch. My eyes dart to anything that shines, a habit that’s filled my house with the detritus of many lives. But one day – the third-best day of my life! – I discovered the village dump. […]

Hey, I never posted this! Me chuntering on about what brand is!

On election day, 2016, I woke up every two hours as America’s votes were counted. Not on purpose, and with very little hope. After the referendum, I was grim in my expectations. I didn’t cry. But the foreboding feeling that would stay with me for the next four years began. You see, America is our […]

Sewing. A humbling experience. You do a bold, brave line and you double back on yourself to make sure the stitching is strong. Then you realise you’ve sewn an arm to a leg, or to yourself. You have to unpick and start again. That’s sewing. And that’s life. You want the lovely jumpsuit? You’ve got […]

This makes up your cycle or pattern in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Different beasts, all feeding and feeding off each other. Certain thoughts can make us feel physical things. Those feelings can make us behave in a certain way. Instinctive behaviours can reinforce thoughts and trigger feelings. Feelings, unnoticed, can make us think in a set […]