As we entered 2020 I felt like I had already assumed the brace position as focus was fully applied to the end of TLK (remember when gigs happened? Yeah, that was this year haha). To follow that I’d prescribed myself a “quiet” year of getting my head down, knuckling down Read more…
I watched the final of Great British Bake Off last night. A series we’d been watching as a bit of light-hearted entertainment, which we’d powered through even though we weren’t particularly enjoying it and weren’t enthused by any of the contestants. After the winner was announced and as the credits Read more…
I went to France to help a brother out and now I have to self-isolate for two weeks. I’ve also come off my contraceptive pill for the first time in about a decade and I don’t know what’s going to happen to me as all the hormones my body has Read more…
I miss you. I know things have moved on and we’ve adapted and drilled new patterns into this (shudder) “new normal” but I wanted to let you know that I miss you. I miss making plans with you. I miss NOT making plans with you. I miss the spontaneity of Read more…
I haven’t written much recently about how I’m coping with all this COVID-19 nonsense. I guess I kinda shut down to it all. It all got a bit much, yknow? And life got in the way. Lots has changed. I had to move house. I changed cities. I got to Read more…
Today my boss posted a memory. She posted a memory and a photograph of herself, my colleague and me at the end of one of the most gruelling periods of work I’ve ever experienced. A summer that consisted of 17 stadium shows alongside 10 outdoor concerts that entertained 1,060,000 people Read more…
I have to sing. Or perform. Doesn’t necessarily have to be singing although that is what I’ve loved for the last few years. I’m a performer. I have to do it. It’s part of me, it’s inside me in a way that I can’t articulate very well. It’s a need. Read more…
Week… seven? I am writing this on day 42 since I went into proper isolation at home, but week 7 of this whole debacle. This is the lowest I’ve felt so far. I am absolutely drenched in PMT, which seems to have taken its cue from everything else in life Read more…
I’ve been writing this piece over the past few weeks. It started out as a positive spin on how my anxiety was seemingly tamed by the situation we currently find ourselves in but my mood, approach and attitude are evolving as the weeks progress so I decided to break it Read more…
I read an article today that so perfectly articulated some of the thoughts I’ve been having now we’ve settled into some sort of routine in our isolation and one phrase keeps rolling round and round in my head: “this is our chance to define a new version of normal” Following Read more…