• Principesa Pink

    [Ella (left) and Pink (right). Why "Principesa"? Well Pink has always been a little Princess, and I love Pavarotti singing Nesun Dorma, and the lyrics refer to principesa - I have since realised it's principessa in Italian, principesa in Spanish, but hey ho, the link has been shared!]
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Facing Fear

I sit on the brink of greatness and I feel sick. My unworthiness is coming in waves. After years of this work I feel like I shouldn’t be feeling like this. I’m removing heart walls* every other day but I wake up in a state of heightened…

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…