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  • a year without cinema

    Hello! After a big trip to London last week, I didn’t think I’d be wanted to write another review so soon (am I just a review blog now? I could do specific book review posts!) but on the day all… Continue reading

    a year without cinema

  • a blogging writing block

    Hello! I’ve been consistently writing blog posts for somewhere upwards of two years now – when I started in 2014 I had no idea what I was doing, in 2015 I did a 365 day challenge (successfully, might I add!),… Continue reading

    a blogging writing block

  • handling anxiety when working from home

    Hello! There are so many stereotypes about anxiety but like any other mental illness, everyone experiences symptoms differently. Not everyone’s anxiety is a racing heart and shaking hands. Not everybody’s anxiety is feeling stuck in bed and not getting dressed. It… Continue reading

    handling anxiety when working from home

  • learning to work from home in a pandemic | graduate job

    Hello! I’ve not written about the graduate job market or ‘post graduate life’ since I finished my undergraduate degree in 2018, since then I’ve finished a Post-Graduate Certificate in Professional Development Planning, a MSc in Digital Media Production and I actually… Continue reading

    learning to work from home in a pandemic | graduate job

  • Have yourself a Tier 4 Christmas…

    Hello! After a post about how we’re all facing a different Christmas, the British Government went ahead and put another spanner in the works with six days until Christmas! I don’t think I can explain the whole tier system to… Continue reading

    Have yourself a Tier 4 Christmas…

  • a different Christmas

    Hello! With the ongoing pandemic and an astonishing amount of people that seem to find it impossible to remember the face mask goes over your nose (if they wear one at all), this Christmas is going to be looking very different.… Continue reading

    a different Christmas

  • giving up on my 2020 goals

    Hello! Today’s blog post was going to be all about setting some goals for the ‘home stretch’ of 2020 and prioritising what’s important for me to work on at this end of 2020 (inspired by Hannah Witton and her yearly… Continue reading

    giving up on my 2020 goals

  • life after my masters degree (in a pandemic…)

    Hello! I think this might be the first time I’ve intentionally taken a month off blogging since I started in 2014! With my masters degree dissertation deadline looming and the dire state of my mental health (that I feel like… Continue reading

    life after my masters degree (in a pandemic…)

  • mental health in a pandemic – 6 months on

    Hello! Writing about mental health is always incredibly subjective – there’s such a broad spectrum of symptoms and each person who lives with mental illness handles it in incredibly different ways that often contradict each other, so bear in mind… Continue reading

    mental health in a pandemic – 6 months on

  • using my bullet journal to create routine

    Hello! I’ve been writing about my bullet journal for a long time now – flip throughs, monthly set ups, weekly spreads, why everyone should bullet journal etc etc… but you’d think in a pandemic lockdown I wouldn’t put an effort… Continue reading

    using my bullet journal to create routine