June 2025
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Moving On
Yesterday was three months since Dad died. Today sees me divorced for two years. Both of these events seem simultaneously longer ago and shorter. The former is grief in action. It does not get smaller – instead life regrows around it. This took a while as there was the funeral to get through. Plus Dad
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Dad
My dad passed away yesterday. It wasn’t sudden nor a shock – he’d been on end-of-life care since Christmas 2024 – but he was my daddy, and I’m deeply saddened. Diane and I went to the care home yesterday to organise a few things. Death comes with an awful lot of paperwork! We were asked
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The Re-evolution of a Nerd
I was a shy child. Well, that’s not entirely true – rather, I was aware of being weird and kept quiet in order to appeal normal. It didn’t always work and I was often bullied. So I shrank away from the other kids, growing up into an adult that avoided situations where I met other
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EM-Con 2025
Yesterday, my son drove me and my daughter (Luka) to Nottingham for Todd Stashwick EM-Con. The journey took an hour and twenty, and I’m really glad he was doing the driving. A state that only increased throughout the day due to the various things wrong with me. Oi. First port of call was Todd’s table.
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Kinky Boots
I went to see Kinky Boots the other night, and I absolutely loved it! Such a joyous show. Based on the (mostly) true story of Charlie Price, Kinky Boots charts him going from reluctant heir to a shoe making factory to saving it from closure by teaming up with drag queen Lola to create the
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Adventures in ADHD Part 2
I had my ADHD assessment this morning, and I absolutely have it. I was fairly sure, but the assessor marked me high on hyperactivity, which came as a much bigger surprise than the inattentiveness. It turns out that hyperactivity looks very different in girls/women to boys/men. In general, boys are physically active and loud, whereas