I enjoyed Robert Egger's film The Northman. However, it wasn't my favourite of his, nor my second favourite, to be honest. My favourite is The Witch, followed by The Lighthouse. The Northman was visually spectacular, but the narrative didn't hold me captive in the way I'd imagined it would. The ending is something special though and I massively appreciate… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #26 – I Have A Thing For The Valkyrie In The Northman
I had a lot of days off school as a kid because of the snow. We lived in the countryside, and to get to school, we'd have to drive a long, high stretch of moor road, which, in blizzard conditions, was dangerous to navigate. One of the best feelings in the world was waking up… Continue reading 365 Days Of Blogging #25 – Snow Day
Whenever I put my daughter to bed, one of the two lullabies she requests is All The Pretty Little Horses. I can't remember if it was sung to me as a child. I'll have to check. Anyway, being a curious so-and-so who's well aware that lullabies, more often than not, have sad or dark origins, I… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #24 – All The Pretty Little Horses
You know those days when it's just not happening? I'm having one of those. I feel heavy, tired, and a fraction anxious because I have an MRI tomorrow. I'm also irritated because I had something cool planned for today's post celebrating International Women's Day. But not every day can be glorious, can it? I wanted… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #23 – I’m Having A ‘It’s Just Not Happening’ Day
The other day I was writing about being happy and listing some of the things I've been consciously doing every day as acts of self-care and preservation. (If you haven't read that post, I suggest you do that now, then come back here.) I'm still happy, though a bit scattered because my day was derailed… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #22 – I’m Happy. What’s Changed? Part II
I was supposed to be writing to you with the second half of my post I'm Happy. What's Changed? But I've just spent two and a bit hours finishing up an interview with a literary legend and I'm tired, So it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Instead I'm going to share with you some images… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #21 – Nordic Cult Folk (Sindri)
I'm feeling happy today. I've been feeling, on the whole, happy all week. There's been a genuine shift in my psyche, and for the first time in my life, I concentrated on putting my health and well-being first so I could begin tracking down the happiness that's been eluding me. You may be under the… Continue reading 100 Days Of Blogging #20 – I’m Happy. What’s Changed? Part I
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
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
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
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 