sidmouth

Sidmouth folk festival was my second home for many years. Today I visited it for the first time outside of festival season. It was a beautifully sunny day, so it was very busy. Nowhere near as busy as festival time, but busy enough to remind me of it. Yesterday I was listening to a Russell […]

sharing stories

Sharing stories, the trauma from our past, it’s a gentle yet powerful tool in finding the ways through the cracks to unlock a story in the other that has been hidden away. There you are thinking you’re listening to someone else’s story, and then all of a sudden it hits you how that story is […]

Ejaculate responsibly

Oh blimey, when I shared that image on facebook I had no idea what I was opening my feed up to. It was an image about the current women’s rights/abortion reform stuff going on in America, and it’s also relevant to the abortion law in Northern Ireland (which is actually more severe I believe, but […]

but you don’t look autistic

If I am struggling with something in a strange environment, more often than not these days when I start to explain my needs then as soon as I mention I think I might be autistic, people often do their best to help me, when before they might have thought I was being a bit weird. […]