Dear lockdown 2, A day or two has passed and things have changed a teeny tiny little bit i feel. How have you been? It’s two weeks now since you’ve been … put on us …a bit less even. The weather is worse, but that’s expected. I have finally managed to introduce some sort of …
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Self imposed writing challenge: Texts on lockdown life (1/5)
Last weekend I asked a few of my friends to give me subjects to write about for a self imposed writing challenge. So here is post no.1 on Lockdown life ( Thank you Nicky): Dear lockdown 2 I thought you and your brother are twins… but it turns out you’re not. Your face is very …
How about Plumbing
Well, and it’s happened again… this time .. as all the other times before actually , now that I think of it, it’s been fairly expected… and yet it’s unexpectedly distressing. Jobless again. The two years that I’ve been with my partner now I have lost my job twice and now a third time and …
Have you been there too?
“ been there, done that” seems to be a common phrase for people of this country, or people of this country I’ve met. It’s an age thing I reckon, but is it? In the last four years there have been so very many things I did I’d never done before and it fills me with …
feeling good…. sometimes
I think it’s quite difficult to push oneself and believe in oneself when it occurs that people who are very close to oneself seem to have opposite feelings to that. Of course, strength and confidence comes from within or should come from within and at the age of 32 one should probably be able to …
Back to what?
so, I’ve been lucky. Very lucky indeed, to have been gone for seven weeks. There was a 30th birthday that I went to at the end of July in the south of Germany. There were many old friends I hadn’t seen in ages and it was great to hang out in a relaxed almost pre-covid …
what ever happened with green corduroy
When I think of clothes I think of the stories they carry. When I was a child in the early 90s my mother made me a puffer jacket with fabric she had very obviously bought in the 80s. Fresh green with muti-coloured black rimmed hearts on it. The other kids didn’t think it stylish … …
9 answers to 9 questions (2/3)
Those few years ago Rife magazine invited me to go on screen and answer 9 questions on equality and change. Here’s the second part of this little series: 4. What does equality mean to you? Equality means respect. Equality is humanism, is consciousness. It’s the opposite of unquestioned repetition. What we’re used to is inequality, …
9 answers to 9 questions (3/3)
This is the last part of this little Q&A series on equality, gender and change that was conducted for Watershed. Enjoy 🙂 7. In the last 100 years we have achieved? In the last 100 years we have achieved a lot. On a political level very much has been done towards equality, I’d almost say …
9 answers to 9 questions (1/3)
a few years back I was invited to take part in the creation of a short film that was recorded and distributed for International women’s day ( Yes I was read as a woman.. but well… it’s for the political outcome is it, so I said yes). I was asked 9 questions, and their answers …