The arrival of my September Craft Gin Club box was a welcome addition to the booze cupboard in my new house, especially given that I’d essentially rinsed my current supply as a result of the house move. September’s offering is inspired by enchanted forests, mythical legends and magical creatures, with a spiced, citrus flavoured gin … Continue reading Craft Gin Club Subscription Box Review | September 2020
It’s been a while since I did an OCD-covid related check-in, so I thought with it being OCD Awareness Week this week, it would be an idea to post one. A lot has happened since my last OCD update - I’ve been getting out a lot more, I’ve seen a few more friends and fam, … Continue reading Anxious Ramblings 6 | Contamination OCD & the Coronavirus Pandemic 3: Surely It Should Be Over By Now?
October is a big month mental health wise. Not only was last week World Mental Health Day, this week is OCD Awareness Week. Spoiler alert: I have OCD. To put it politely, it’s a complete and utter fucking ballache. I’ve written quite a few times now about how my brain works with contamination based OCD, … Continue reading What Is OCD? | OCD Awareness Week 2020
After a bit of a break, The Therapy Diaries is back! While we’re coming up to my most recent brush with my local mental health service, I felt that I wanted to do a post around the journey that led up to it, as it was certainly a stressful one. Of course, my previous experience … Continue reading The Therapy Diaries 5 | Long Waits and Too Many Assessments
I’ll be honest, August’s craft gin subscription box has been somewhat overshadowed this month. Not surprisingly, the whole buying a house thing impacted my focus on what the August box had to offer, but that’s weird in a way, especially considering that in the week running up to the move I was essentially 90% gin. … Continue reading Craft Gin Club Subscription Box Review | August 2020
Apologies for my absence these last couple of weeks - it’s been a bit crazy. As I write this I’m trying to put together as much content as I can so that I don’t end up falling behind like I did last time, but if anything that might delay my comeback even more - so … Continue reading Five Lessons I Learned Buying My First House | 30 Before 30
Hello friends! I'm finally back after what turned out to be quite a long hiatus. Following our disastrous house move and me generally just being a lazy bitch, I took a lot longer to come back than I'd hoped. I'm well aware that I'm now three months behind on these wrap up posts, but as … Continue reading July 2020 Wrap Up
I wasn't particularly expecting to write this post so soon, but if 2020 has been anything, it's been utterly batshit crazy. Earlier this year I mentioned that we had started proceedings into buying another house, and things just started moving again when coronavirus took a massive shit on all of our lives. I'll tell you … Continue reading A Very Last Minute Hiatus
You’ll probably already know that Taylor Swift recently dropped a surprise new album - Folklore. My regular readers will know that I am a committed Swiftie, so this news literally made my day when I first heard it. I immediately ordered the album for my car collection of Taylor CDs, and streamed it pretty much … Continue reading Tay-Tay Top Five: Folklore
Yes, it’s another one of those bloody letter-to-myself-in-the-past posts. Sorry. This was never actually on my content plan for the month, nor was it my intention to write another one of these letters, but if you’ve been listening to Scott Mills and Chris Stark on Radio 1 over the last couple of weeks, you’ll know … Continue reading A Letter To My 10 Year Old Self
