Category: who knows

• May 27, 2021

  Thursday Photo Challenge is Changing.

  I’ve been doing these photo challenges for six months, now, and despite the fact that I’ve been part of the photography wordpress community, I wasn’t prepared for how bitchy and cliquey people can be. So far, I’ve had to delete more than a handful of really nasty, shitty comments from people who think they’re photographers,…
• April 17, 2021

  Sorry, Italy, I disagree about coffee

  In Italy, they are very particular about their coffee. It stands to reason, since they’re famous for coffee. Half our coffee words are direct loan-words from Italian. Latte, cappuccino, espresso, doppio espresso, to name a few. Many successful coffee shop chains have given themselves Italian names and the main coffee machines used in those coffee…
• October 31, 2020

  Top 10 Hello Kitty gadgets for adults on Amazon

  I’m a huge Hello Kitty fan. I have so much Hello Kitty stuff. Her real name is Kitty, not Hello Kitty. She is also from London, like me. And we met in China. I didn’t really get the whole Hello Kitty thing until we moved to China. Now my life is full of Kitty. I…
• August 9, 2020

  The worst tests for bipolar

  UPDATE October 2020: I’m just putting a little update here as people keep finding this post, I conclusively found out I have ADHD and PMDD, not rapid-cycling bipolar disorder, and since starting treatment for PMDD, my moods have been completely stable, after years of misdiagnosis and taking mood stabilizers. Don’t give up looking for your…
• April 15, 2020

  Applying for Midwifery Science and Dietetics

  

  So I’m still thinking on this, but it’s something that I’ve been wondering about for a long time. Being a midwife over here isn’t the same as being one in America. Over here you’re part-obstetrician and part-obstetric nurse (we don’t have ob nurses over here at all, just midwives). In Northern Ireland, midwives do all…
• April 13, 2020

  Look at this baby with Covid-19. Still want to travel?

  

  I honestly don’t know how anyone can look at this tiny 6-month-old baby in hospital, on a ventilator that’s too big for her so had to be taped over at the top, fighting to survive, and how, after seeing her, they can still contemplate making unnecessary journeys for stupid reasons. Her name is Erin Bates.…
• April 8, 2020

  Changing things up

  So I got up at 10am this morning, which was an achievement. The flipside is, my eyes have been trying to close since about 11:30am. Baby Jellyfish is teething again, we found out last night. He already has his front lower two teeth, which came through at once. The dentist told me his top two…
• April 7, 2020

  Waiting

  

  I’m now signed up with two different ways of working in the health service and I still haven’t been deployed anywhere. Hurry up and wait seems to be turning the days into a miasma of ennui. Getting out of bed has reverted to being very difficult. It’s rare for me to manage it before 2pm…
• March 24, 2020

  The UK is in lockdown and it’s all Britain’s fault

  That title is probably confusing if you don’t live in Northern Ireland. Basically, “Britain” (or Great Britain) is England + Scotland + Wales. The United Kingdom’s full name is “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. Here in Northern Ireland we have only had 77 coronavirus cases and 1 death. Britain, on the…
• March 16, 2020

  Everything’s out

  

  So we moved to Northern Ireland where we have been for the past 9 months since leaving China. I’ve been trying to start blogging again since I got back but honestly I didn’t know what to write. I had so many ideas for articles but every time I came to write them I didn’t know…