My mum has found boxes of my old diaries in her loft. My first thought when she told me was 'I hope to fuck she hasn't flicked through them...I'll be MORTIFIED if she has.' One of the two she handed me today was from my second year at university in 2009 when I'd just had… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #19 – Looking Through My Diary From 2009
Category: My Wyrd Life
100 Days Of Blogging #18 – Four Things I’m Grateful For Today
My daughter Saga (4) stroked my hair and kissed my forehead when I lay on the sofa, bone-tired and with a stomach ache. Visiting my mum and finding she'd bought soya milk for me to have with my tea. (I haven't had cow's milk in a long while, and even the smell these days is… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #18 – Four Things I’m Grateful For Today
100 Days Of Blogging #17 – World Book Day Was Always Disappointing When I Was A Kid
I remember being so excited about World Book Day as a kid. At school we would all get a book token worth one pound, which we could take to a local bookshop and exchange for a book which had, if I remember correctly, been written especially for the event. The books were always shit, year… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #17 – World Book Day Was Always Disappointing When I Was A Kid
100 Days Of Blogging #16 – Hlyd Monath
The Anglo-Saxons called March 'Hlyd Monarth', which means 'loud' or 'stormy month.' And I can confirm that March, 1,600 years later, continues to be stormy. The rain didn't stop all day, and the clouds were some of the most ominous I've ever seen, but I had this unusual lightness about myself. I'm looking forward to… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #16 – Hlyd Monath
100 Days Of Blogging #15 – The Last Day Of Winter
I've only just realised that it's the last day of winter. That isn't like me. That isn't like me at all. Usually, I'm counting down the days with dread, wishing the cold season would just hang on and then some. But this winter has left me confused, worried and upset. I don't know what to… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #15 – The Last Day Of Winter
100 Days Of Blogging #14 – Nordic Cult Folk (Solveig)
I don't think I've talked much about my Nordic Cult Folk project. (I mentioned it in my 100 Good Things From 2022, but I think that's about it.) It started as a project to photograph folk in Norway wearing bunad/lusekofte and corpse paint. The project has expanded since my initial idea (which I had a few… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #14 – Nordic Cult Folk (Solveig)
100 Days Of Blogging #13 – I Was Up At 5.30Am To Shoot My Friend
The last time I was up at such a cruel hour was when I waited overnight at Manchester Airport for a flight to Iceland. It was the same as before that…and the time before that. (Hell, EasyJet, PLEASE CHANGE YOUR GODDAMN FLIGHT TIMES. I can't while away another night in the bleakest airport ever built.)… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #13 – I Was Up At 5.30Am To Shoot My Friend
100 Days Of Blogging #11 – Three Things You Should Seek Out If You Have Also Had ‘A Day’
Today has been a day. But I want to cast these things out to you in case you, too, have just had ‘a day,’ and need something to haul your head back into at least a semi-good mood. Greg Davies: The Back Of My Mum’s Head I thought this was a new stand-up show from… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #11 – Three Things You Should Seek Out If You Have Also Had ‘A Day’
100 Days Of Blogging #10 – A Moor Of Her Own
I went up into the hills today. It was unseasonably sunny, so not ideal photo weather…but I was feeling inspired as fuck and couldn’t stay inside. I was expecting to see HORDES of walkers on my wanderings because of the summer-like weather in winter. But, to my absolute delight, I saw not a soul. It… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #10 – A Moor Of Her Own
100 Days Of Blogging #9 – I Have A Thing For The Mermaid From The Lighthouse
I've had many obscure (or perfectly understandable...you decide) crushes over my lifetime. Sir Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing from the anime Hellsing, Storm from the X-Men cartoon, the dad from Casper, the dad from The Secret Garden, Kristoff from Frozen, and the valkyrie from The Northman, to name but a few. So it doesn't phase me to admit I have a thing for… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #9 – I Have A Thing For The Mermaid From The Lighthouse
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 