Oh shit. The discovery that my maths is worse than I thought is made even worse when I discover that I’d totally miscalculated what was in my bank account. Next year I’m earning money, screw the career attempts my priority is earning actual money. Edit: And then there’s that other feeling which comes from realising … Read More

The woman who had more roles than anyone else and appeared in almost every version of Star Trek passed away this week. R.I.P Majel Barrett Rodenberry. Come on, it was a good line – ‘The network wanted me to get rid of the Martian and the woman so I kept the Vulcan and married the … Read More

So, you know those moments, when you manage to totally freak yourself out…and then you wonder – did I just do that or was that really there? Yeah, took a shortcut through Williamson Park today, now mundane friends have given me mundane reasons that this is a bad plan and magical friends have given me … Read More

Everyone under 35 is being offered an MMR jab because there’s a measles scare at the moment around Blackpool and in the North West generally. The nurse caught me offguard earlier and I’ve been jabbed.

I am who I am because of millions of women who have gone before me. It’s taken a long time but I am comfortable, emphatically comfortable and happy to be a woman. I’m a certain type of woman as well. I’m a historian, or at least part of me is, Ican’t help but look back … Read More