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Reading fantasy always makes me want to get back to writing it. Browsing back through The Pairing Fire for old time's sake.

Currently reading. (And will be currently reading until 2022 by the size of it 😂.)

In the spirit of beginning as I mean to go on I rang in the new year on a muddy hill overlooking Edinburgh Castle. All while wearing these highly-inappropriate-for-hiking boots AND I REGRET NOTHING. To make it up and down the ice slick path I needed to lean on two people (my human walking sticks). There's definitely symbolism in that. As you all know it's been a very up and down year. An even more hilly decade. Through all the struggle and rejection I've closed myself off from others more and more. I can rely on me, I thought, why do I need anyone else? I don't believe in resolutions as such (I hate strict diets with a passion), but I'm going to make a conscious effort to go forth into this new decade with a much more open heart. To find the balance and lean on more people (literally and figuratively 😂). I don't need to do everything on my own for it to count. I can still be a strong independent woman with people around me. It's certainly been a festive period of extreme emotion but the one I'm feeling right now is happiness. I've laughed a lot so far this new year. Come at me, 2020, I bloody dare you. (It should be noted, by the way, I didn't know about the hill hike in advance. I'm usually brilliant at picking appropriate shoes 😂.) #baymtgo #beginasyoumeantogoon #2020 #HOWISIT2020ALREADY #thistimenextyearrodney #newyear #happynewyear #cheesypost #basicallyjustwantedtosharetheshoes #shoes #fashion #ootd #someotherhashtagsorwhatever

The year is drawing to a close and it takes the decade with it. My knee jerk reaction is to bemoan my lack of achievements this decade, but actually I've done so much! I've earned 2 degrees, written 5 novels, mistakenly self-published 1 (do not look for it!!), been a finalist for the Wicked Young Writers' Award, longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition, become a self-taught scholar in literary agents and dark history, gained a dodgy search history due to said interest in dark history, lived in Wales, America, Italy, various places in England, and now Scotland. Travelled a bunch. I've worked some horrible jobs, some better jobs, and been pretty penniless throughout. However, I wouldn't change it. Every turn of fate, every decision, brought me to all the friends I've made (some of whom weren't even alive at the beginning of the decade, looking at you little A). It's been a decade of friendship and chasing dreams. Yet for all the rejection, all the intense hard work, I leave the decade as I didn't enter it: a writer. I'm so full of gratitude for you all. Happy New Year, my loves 😘. Xx

Merry Christmas everyone. I hope however you spent it you were safe and content. I had such a lovely day I'm now sad about having to go back to work! Have this picture of Blu muscling in on our game of Dominos for full Christmas cheer. 🎅🏻🎄

I feel like the worst person ever for even thinking about politics right now with other stuff happening behind the scenes here. However, I can't help thinking about all those people who have died because of this government's austerity. People have died and they are continuing to die because the fat cats at the top won't even hand down their scraps. Because they're so greedy for money and power they'll take the bread from the hands of the starving with a laugh. And if they get rid of the NHS, if they make us pay for doctor's appointments and treatment the way they make us pay for dental, how many more will die? Will I be next? My family? I'm not looking to have any conservative voters on here debate with me, I'm just airing how paralysingly terrified I am for the future, and how genuinely baffled I am by everyone who looked at what the conservatives have done and thought it was good enough. Who looked at those below them and thought they could stay in the gutter. When did this country become so selfish? The next five years are going to be hard as hell and it's already such a struggle just to survive. Forget having money left over to live. They say bad things come in threes. Well, mine all came in the same 48 hour period. Where's the silver lining?

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