I watched a documentary on channel 5 a few days ago. An Australian chap with an autoimmune disorder and carrying an extra 100lbs embarked upon a new eating and fitness regime (when he was well enough to exercise) to get well and lose the weight . The regimen was sixty days of nothing but juice […]
So tomorrow it is off to London to drop off Snapshot that I have, probably wrongly, been working on since it was selected for the Shape Open a couple of months ago. I am, typically for me, dreading it. Whenever anyone see’s my work I feel sick. Ah well at least after the drop off […]
I was asked by the lovely @hollybobbs on twitter if I wanted to link up to a post she had written in response to our #SoMum chat on twitter hosted by The Story of Mum about how we see our Mum Body. As always the discussion elicited some passionate responses with mothers daring to love […]
I write this while watching Channel 5’s Wright Stuff, the current news item is a proposal to “test” seven year olds for later mental health problems. This is a horrific idea in my mind and one that I would actually protest happening. I have reasons for this. Not only am I the parent of a […]
I know some mums feel oh so proud Of the lines they have accrued The silver lines, the softer flesh The marks that shout “I gave LIFE!” But I lament, They do not feel like badges of great pride Of proud battle scars that scream out “I am woman, I am mother, hear […]
So on Friday I got the rather lovely news that my piece “Snapshot” had been chosen as one of the selected pieces for this year’s Shape Open first to be exhibited at The Nunnery: Bow Arts 3rd Oct — 27th Oct and then toured at various galleries around the country afterwards. This news fills me […]
So being the sick but busy person that I am, it is only now, a week after the Wickham festival that I have got a chance to post about it. Luckily for us we live very close to Wickham and so what with illness, lots of animals and 2 children (one of whom is autistic), […]
In this post-Capitalist society where you are judged it seems on purely monetary and aesthetic terms what are you worth when society deems you to be invisible? Since becoming wheelchair bound this is a question that I ponder a lot. The way disability is portrayed by the popular press in recent years is one that […]
Weary, Confused and Longing For a chance to sleep and to dream Feeling the memories of another day Slip between my fingers As my brain recycles through the wasteland Of the pointless things we believe Feeling my energy zapping As I fall through the cracks on the floor
I have been quite quiet for a while on lovemakecreate, this is down to a number of factors (mostly family related) but now I am back with what at first may appear a quite controversial post. It doesn’t mean to be but I worry some may take it that way. Feminism and the way women […]