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I rarely share my writing, mostly due to fear and doubt, but here we are, braving the internet with a Christmas short story! ~ ~ ~ I sipped my mint hot chocolate, its sweetness deeply comforting, and watched the worl…

Bring Back The Letter

Handwriting is a curious thing. We're born humans with two arms, two legs, and such. We're made of the same ingredients - an egg cell, a sperm cell. Yet, we're all so vastly different. No one is quite alike. Twins ca…

Creativity and Depression: why is my brain crowded with ideas despite its gloom?

In the thick of it, in the deepest recesses of my mind and its experiences with depression I can be at my most creative. In my most recent episode (Right now unfortunately) I have been thinking a lot about my creativity. There…

The Story of Reading

It seems fitting to write a post about my love of reading on the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone. Twenty years ago I was only one years old. A small baby who had no idea as she …

6 of my Favourite Book Covers

Admiring my bookshelves every day, I want to share with you my favourite book covers. The books I have chosen, you'll probably be able to tell I like plain, simplistic and aesthetically pleasing covers. The phrase 'more …

This post is a spur of the moment kinda thing, I don't have much to talk and blog about but I felt an overwhelming urge to write, and probably another method of keeping myself busy. I have spent a good amount of time thi…

Christmas and Birthday Book Haul

Christmas and my birthday go hand in hand, with them being within three days of each other so any gifts I receive are split between the two days. The gifts I receive are always going to include books, every year I write a book l…

"I love learning about grammar, spelling and porcupine rodeos"  Sounds bizarre and hilarious, right? True. This book will teach you the in's and out's of grammar - you will probably become a "gramm…

Hancock P.I Dan Taylor "In all the pictures up until you're about three years old, not one of them has either of your parents in them." Jake Hancock is a private investigator, somewhat not professional, p…

In partnership with Summersdale Publishers   I responded to a tweet the company put out about reviewing a non-fiction book that is in the final stages of publishing, I took up the opportunity and lovely Abbie from Summersdale sen…