One of the things I’m very grateful for is my family, better known as Team Bacon. In Addenbrooks hospital when my Dad was diagnosed with brain cancer, he said, “We’re Team Bacon, Team Bacon can get through anything.” That pretty much sums up my Dad; a ridiculous sense of optimism in an annoying but charming […]
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So this isn’t my usual Friday feeling. I feel, mainly, as though I could sleep for 12 hours right about now. I’m exhausted from my new job, new commute and well meeting a whole bunch of new lovely people. It’s been great, but new things are tiring, as are earlier starts and longer days. My […]
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This week has been filled with tears, for many reasons. But today I say goodbye to my first post-uni or proper job as the Editor of Architecture Magazine at the Peterborough based publishers Media One. It was a decision made for many reasons; I moved towards Cambridge and wanted to be closer to my nest, […]
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That’s right ya girl has graduated… again. It was my Gradu-bacon yesterday, when I received my Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Leicester! Not quite sure where those twelve months went, but I certainly have learnt and written more in a year than I have in a long time. I really enjoyed my […]
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After being in education for seventeen years, it was daunting not knowing what the next step was after graduating from my Bachelor’s degree in English. I got my GCSE’s, A-Levels, BA degree; I’d got the set of qualifications my teachers had always encouraged me to get. But, then what? Nobody at the University of York […]
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Thank god it’s Friday. Yes it’s only 10 days into 2020, yes I’m still dazed about what day it is, but man have I got that Friday feeling. It’s the weekend! YAY. My body is not quite back on work, hustle time. I’m pushing through but I would also like to sleep. Sleep for days […]
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Last weekend Dan and I had a festive weekend away in my university city, York. After three amazing years in the city, I was excited to return and show Dan round my favourite places. With our big coats packed, we headed to the North. Yet, no matter how much I visit or how long I […]
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So I skipped two weeks of my Friday feeling posts (whoops) as I got too into feeling my friday’s rather than writing about them, so now you lucky devils you, it’s a thriple, triple, whiple whammy of positivity from the past three festive filled weeks. And oh my has it been festive! Disclaimer though, this […]
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