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Showing posts with label London. Show all posts
Showing posts with label London. Show all posts

Monday, November 22

What a difference a few years make...



 

Do we still read blogs?  

Do I start to write here again, will you read it?  The blow up of spaces like Instagram and TikTok is a huge push in the direction of quick watch.  Is blogging DEAD?  I remember when studying journalism in 2005, we were told print journalism is dead, blogging was the way forward, but do people actually read anymore, and do I have enough to say to be consistent and put out regular content.  

I swear I ask this question every few years!😅

I am ever growing, ever questioning and ever analysing.  It is who I am and will always be.  My ramblings may die away in the deep dark corners of the internet or.... there is a record of my life, in part accessible for all time, or at least until the next phase of the earth where all changes and the internet is relegated to an urban myth.

So.... an update, for those who are mildly interested in seeing inside some strangers brain and life for a moment.

Half of the boys are now men.  Sal is 27 almost 28, in fact I've been saying he is 28 for the past 6 months and was totally convinced that he was.  Does anyone else, rising 50, have this affliction?  He takes total offence (of course, I'm sure the requirement of our children is to be offended by EVERYTHING) in my adding a year closer to 30, but not as much as when I forget his name and call him every siblings name until I get it right!  Now that I KNOW happens to everyone! 

Louie is now a 19 year old not so 'mini' fashionisto, producer, actor, model, internet journalist and academic.  This is all information I receive through the wall when he is talking to work or friends, as most of our actual communication is done through between the teeth grunts, I'm often treated like a whistleblower and all juicy information comes to me after it is public to all.  Sorry no scoops here.

Friday, June 3

Small Luxury Garden Makeover on a Budget



Luxury Living, Ghetto Budget


I am a true lover of gardens and gardening and in 2013 I vowed to reclaim my extra 'outdoor room' from what had become a building site and storage space after my husband built his man cave out there taking up half of the open square leaving me the other half and a small side walk.

Remember when I started?  No?  Have a read of this old post >>>>> Urban Organic Vegetable Garden

Monday, June 3

Travelling with thought: Underground poetry

Teenage me could have been described of as a little unusual and a contradiction of self.  I was a tomboy and would play football for 'steams' with the boys (steams was to basically be beaten up if you missed a goal; there were no holds barred) but dress and wear my hair like the girls.   Fun was reading a dictionary, spending masses of time at my local museum and taking photographs of the evening and night skies from my bedroom window, whilst listening to a selection of hip hop or classical music dressed as Salt n Pepa!