Blog
09
Jun
Video games and meaningful meaninglessness
I consider to be a blessing the psychological zoom-out that my health situation has afforded me. I do have a
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15
May
Being part of the real world
I'm not going to blog incessantly about my health. Partly because that would be much too depressing, but
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27
Apr
What is chemo like? Mental effects
Context for this post is here and here. This is the second post in my mini series about chemo!
The
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27
Apr
What is chemo like? Physical effects
For background, here was the post where I talked more broadly about my breast cancer diagnosis. And there’s a
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24
Apr
Emerging, and mortality
On 10th December 2024 everything stopped - I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 44.
Here we are, and at
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09
Nov
Autumnal Englishness
On 8th November 2024 I went on another little nature jaunt to reconnect with my sense of physical place after
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19
Oct
Reconnecting with the northern coast
After almost five years working for American software company Automattic out of my bedroom office, I took a voluntary redundancy
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03
Oct
The North Land
I have written an acapella arrangement for three voices (SAT, or really AAT/B), a nostalgic song about Scotland based
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20
Nov
Twenty Months Later
The last post I wrote here was called 'hiatus'... and that was a long time ago. I think
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12
Dec
Our wedding
We had a lockdown wedding in December 2020, at Judges Hotel, Kirklevington. Due to covid restrictions we were only allowed
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