The last time I posted to my blog was in the January of 2022, bemoaning the loss of what felt like the entirety of 2021. Though, to be perfectly honest, I hadn’t been the most prolific when it came to uploading content to my website in the year(s) prior to this either, and I don’t…
Insert: that awkward moment when you realise you took a year off the internet and everything fell apart. Do you remember that time when everyone thought Covid was just a cold? When the lockdowns and restrictions wouldn’t last any more than a few weeks… six months… a year… two years…? It’s been a long two…
A year in review. A look back on all the things I actually did achieve in 2020…
Despite being a huge fan of the Jurassic Park films, it never occurred to me to try reading the novel they were based on before now…
When we got home, J made a comment about how many of the games we now owned and I joked that we probably had enough to make a Christmas tree out of them…
Covid Ate My Homework – a reflection on the year 2020. It’s been a year. If we say nothing else of 2020, we can at least say that: it’s been a year. The year of Covid has been
I know I say it in the post itself, but this honestly was one of the most rewarding and terrifying moments of my life! The librarian at Kingsway High School reached out to me after having read my debut novel ‘The Ridge‘, letting me know if I were ever back in Amanzimtoti, she’d love to…
For anyone who caught my post towards the end of July, either here on on facebook, you may already know that I found June a bit of a struggle. I’m generally quite a positive person, who tends not to worry about things unless they’re actually happening — mostly because I feel it’s a waste of…
Grab the second instalment to the Amanzimtoti Series, FREE, for the next few days only! June has been a bit of a rollercoaster of a month for me so far, and with enough ups and downs I honestly don’t know what day of the week it is anymore. So much so, I’d actually forgotten I was…
Despite “theme-ing” my week, we ended up straying from the meal plan quite a bit. I’ve realised that moving meals around the week isn’t as bad as I make it out to be. I always feel like I’m letting myself or the plan down when I have to change things, especially if it’s because I’m…