• Missing Niala

    September, 2023
    How the chickens saved my life (part 2). You can read part one here.
    I have three chickens. I don’t have favourites, but each of my girls holds a very special place in my heart. If I was a chicken, I would be Niala. Noisy Niala. Exuberant, childish, enthusiastic. Niala is the little chubby girl in…

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No bad decisions

Like most of my subjects I have a wave of inspiration and spend an hour writing in my head, trying to drop off to sleep but too involved in my narrative to sleep, too invested in bedtime to get up and put it to paper. And then the next day…

Enter the Chickens…

August 2018 How the chickens saved my life (part I) This blog post is dedicated to Annie, my mentor, who first encouraged me to write about my chickens. We had 5 ex-battery hens – we got them in September 2017 after a serious…
Image by Sarah Richter from Pixabay

Safety is on the Inside

I’ve loved all of RuPaul’s Drag Race, firstly the UK series, and then the US seasons going back 14 years. It took a bit to get used to the US seasons, a culture shock if you like, but fascinating watching the changes over 14 years, the…