• Ella and the Art of Safety

    I’ve written lot about my chickens, how they burst into my life and insisted on teaching me to expand, to grow, to learn to love, to learn to change, to learn to trust, to learn to accept, to heal. Each of them fixed a beady eye on me and demanded that I evolve. When they arrived, a skinny, scabby, shabby, scrawny huddle…

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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…
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Enjoy the ride

There are moments in your life when you feel your heart crack open. For some people it’s looking at a baby but that’s not me I’m afraid, I would have run a mile from a baby in my past life. Though now I can actually stand still in…