Victoria Jones

Victoria Jones

09
Jun
Video games and meaningful meaninglessness

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
Countryside scene in North Yorkshire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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