There’s this thing called ‘sonder’, and it describes the profound understanding that every single person in the world – every stranger that touches your life, however briefly, is living a life that is just as unique and complex as your own.
So this is just a place for me to share some of the odd things that happen in my own silly little life.
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Stranger Things radio station!
Tell me why I spent about 30 minutes yesterday translating morse code from a radio broadcast? I fear I’m in this Stranger Things fandom too deep. But I’m going to be entirely unapologetic about it because it’s fun. For those who don’t know, the final season of Stranger Things is currently airing and they are…
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The West Highland Way
At the end of April, and the start of May, my mother, brother, and I, all walked the 97 miles of the West Highland Way in Scotland. And ohmygoodness, I loved it! I find that I’m actually so sad to be back home right now because I sorely miss the sheer freedom that I felt…
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Slow Horses
I have recently become obsessed with the Apple TV+ show, Slow Horses. It is a masterpiece of a show and I would a-hundred-percent recommend everyone get round to watching it – even if that means binging all four of the seasons that are currently out in the 7-day free trial that Apple TV+ offers. The…
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seong gi-hun defense squad!
Okay, wow, so I’ve not posted to this blog in a long while. Damn. Well, I can say that life has kept marching on: I volunteered in Sweden for a time in October and November, helping in the restaurant food prep for a ‘Christmas Buffet’ and walking some absolutely lovely huskies; I put together an…
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Bartholin Cyst Awareness
I’ve decided to make this post because, before I myself was diagnosed with a Bartholin Cyst, I had never before heard of them – which is wild considering how common they actually are in women. I was in Cambodia, at the start of a 10 week trip that would have seen me travel from Cambodia,…
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The best laid plans of mice and men…
So… That happened. I never expected that my first surgery would come so soon – at 24 years old – and happen whilst I was on the other side of the world, in Vietnam, alone. It entirely blindsided me. But, I suppose, such a thing would blindside anyone. And so, the best laid plans of…
An Odyssey Of Being 