The DIY guide to feeling better in lockdown

Oh I am just so over all these lockdowns now! I miss eating a panini in a garden centre café, I miss the hygge of post-work pub drinks and I miss having a friend over for a catch up over a pizza. But this is the situation we’re in, and it is what it is….

World Mental Health Day: it’s never just you

It’s World Mental Health Day 2018, and I am BIG on supporting mental health. It’s something that most of us have issues with at least some of the time, but it’s so easy to feel isolated or like it’s just you when you’re standing in the street with a racing heart and mind and you…

Share the hygge with a compliment

January is finally behind us! I don’t think anyone is too sad to see the back of it, right? Now the bleakest month is over, I’m thinking about New Year’s resolutions. I haven’t typically been very successful with my resolutions – to be honest, I rarely make it past the first week of January before…

Auti-Sim: The game that shows you how it feels to have autism

“SHUT UP. Why can’t I make it stop?” An interesting thing happened when I started to play Auti-Sim. My browser, laden with tabs upon tabs and massive, complex web pages froze. I couldn’t close it, I couldn’t click anything. Everything on my laptop became unresponsive. Everything, that is, except the cacophony of distant screaming and…