Book – Into The Woods
As some of you may have seen on Facebook, I’ve had an exciting week. On Tuesday I lunched with my editor Kate Taylor from Middle Farm Press, on Friday Booka Bookshop agreed to help with the book launch and yesterday morning I met with the skilful and energetic illustrator Anita and watched as she created … Read more
Periods are political
Thank you to everyone who came to the Red Tent this week…it felt very special to be talking about the thing that we never talk about. Our periods.
We told our menstrual stories; when we started, how we felt about starting our journey into womanhood and how the start of our menses changed how some … Read more
Red Tent
Last night was the first gathering of the Oswestry Red Tent and it was amazing.
There were 13 women, of all ages, most of whom only knew one other person, if anyone at all and yet through the evening there were some deep connections, reflections, laughter and tears. With strangers. Such intimacy.
Because it was … Read more
Mother Threw New Born – Who cares?
I spotted this headline outside our village shop and saw red.
The story in The Advertiser told of how a 31 year old woman who threw her newborn baby out of the window.
She had kept her ‘unwanted pregnancy’ ‘a secret’ and had ‘had expressed a desire to kills both herself and her unborn … Read more
Hormones and The Female Brain
OMG.. I have read another book that you HAVE to read. It will help you underestand yourself and the hormones which influence your life.
It was part of my book-a-day holiday fest and I wish I had had it when I was a kid; but then the research has only been available in the last … Read more
