this has been one of the worst years of my life, but there have been a couple of positives:

• started the new year with my boyfriend
• lots of beautiful, sunny days
• have read many books so far
• became health and safety rep of sorts at work
• accepted into an incredible university for my masters (#2 in the country for my chosen course of study!)

• Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• I Was Born for This by Alice Oseman
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow
• Wilder Girls by Rory Power

• Black Lives Matter UK
• Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust
• Reclaim the Block
• Choose Love
• Dogs Trust
• local food bank

• cloth sanitary towels
• bamboo toothbrush
• reusable bags*
• shampoo and conditioner bars
• beeswax food wrapping
• returning packaging to lush*
• taking bottle tops to lush to be recycled*
• ensuring all recyclables are clean
• supporting local eco-businesses
• buying secondhand books
• reusing postal packaging
• regrowing veggies
• no face wipes
• less water in the kettle
• minimising food waste

* currently difficult to achieve

• basking shark
• epaulette shark
• floral banded wobbegong
• great white shark
• greenland shark
  • they are blind
  • they live for hundreds of years
  • they swim really, really slowly
• hammerhead shark
• sand tiger shark
• tiger shark
• whale shark

• 19/06/1996
• cis woman; she/her
• born in the eu
• socialist
• intersectional feminist
• round
• bookworm (BA English)
• vegetarian
• in love

alternate title: call me grandma

• I like sitting out in my garden, reading and watching the birds
• I've started buying a lot of bird food
• I own a lot of plants
• big, cosy cardigans are my thing
• I hate loud music, it disturbs my quiet time
• I am somewhat out of touch with current popular culture
• I love shopping in charity shops, for books and mugs mainly
• I naturally wake up early and I go to bed early
• I also love naps
• I sometimes forget that I have a cup of tea to drink until it's gone cold
• I have conversations with my pets
• I carry snacks around and sometimes flasks of tea
• the members of my favourite bands are all...

• Alexander Hamilton
• Aaron Burr, Sir
• My Shot
• The Schuyler Sisters
• You'll Be Back
• Right Hand Man
• Helpless
• Guns and Ships
• The Room Where It Happens

• fat, fuzzy bumblebees
• Susie enjoying the sunlight
• mum giving me a creme egg
• peppers, they taste so bright and tangy
• the blackbird singing on the hedgerow
• the huge dog I met on my walk
• Susie (an indoor cat) going for little walks in the garden
• mint hot chocolate made with oat milk
• my orchids flowering
• the clumsy pigeons nesting in the tree outside my window
• perfecting the art of the omelette
• sudden downpours
• regrowing vegetables (currently pak choi and spring onions)
• guests in my bee hotel
• discovering that both pak choi and basil both flower
• reading voraciously
• goldfinches living in the tree in the gar...

• Agatha
• Agnes
• Anastasia
• Anna; Anouk
• Araminta
• Ariadne
• Artemis
• Athena
• Beatrice; Beatrix
• Bronwen
• Camilla; Camille
• Cassandra
• Cecilia; Cecily
• Daisy
• Edith
• Elizabeth
• Eloise
• Evadne
• Evanthe
• Ffion
• Frances

• I take my coffee strong and very milky.
• I take my tea strong and with a splash of milk.
• I love dunking biscuits in my tea/coffee.
• I cannot choose between dogs and cats.
• I save greetings cards and cinema, theatre and train tickets.
• I cannot stop buying books.
• I never fold the pages of my books.
• I was a featured user on listography years ago.
• I hate the taste of coconut, but love the smell.
• I love listening to classical music, but can name hardly any pieces.
• I have a dainty, high-pitched sneeze and I never sneeze only once.
• I like going to the cinema by myself.
• I hated Halloween with a passion when I was growing up.

• big feet
• chunky
• wears a lot of yellow
• eats six times a day
• loves mushrooms
• sleeps a lot
• moves quietly

• Animal by Sara Pascoe
• Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh
• The Five by Hallie Rubenhold
• Gentleman Jack by Anne Choma
• Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
• Over the Top by Jonathan Van Ness
• Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
• Van Gogh's Ear by Bernadette Murphy

• The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
• The Humans by Matt Haig
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
• The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
• The Princess Bride by William Goldman
• Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• Wakenhyrst by Michelle Paver

• kraft eco A4 subject notebook
• muted print blue A4 Kraft notebook
• mild liner fluorescent set

• Cobb
• Phoebe
• Weber
• Truffles
• Coco
• Huck
• Diana
• Shep
• Bella
• Peggy
• Cherry

• Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack)
• Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood)
• Chandler Bing (Friends)
• the Doctor [9 and 10] (Doctor Who)
• Donna Noble (Doctor Who)
• Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
• Fezzik (The Princess Bride)
• Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)
• Francis (The Secret History)
• Gwen Cooper (Torchwood)
• Harvey Kinkle (Sabrina the Teenage Witch)
• Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie)
• Hobie (The Goldfinch)
• Ianto Jones (Torchwood)
• Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride)
• James (Derry Girls)
• Jean Valjean (Les Misérables)
• Jim Hopper (Stranger Things)
• Joyce Byers (Stranger Things)
• Kurtan Mucklowe (This Country)

• Cinnamon Whirl
• Cinnamon Whirm
• Lady Shoshannah
• Noodle
• Poo-poo
• Snoozy
• Sue-Sue
• Susan
• Susie-Poo
• Suze
• Worm

• sleepy jean
• hermione granger
• sabrina spellman
• diana, goddess of the moon
• circe, goddess of magic
• margarita as she flies over moscow
• rose tyler

• Anathema Device
• Grandmama Addams
• Hermione Granger
• Hilda Spellman
• Kiki
• Margarita Nikolaevna
• Minerva McGonagall
• Molly Weasley
• Paige Matthews
• Phoebe Halliwell
• Piper Halliwell
• Prue Halliwell
• Sabrina Spellman
• Zelda Spellman

• Beetlejuice
• Dirty Dancing
• Ghost
• The Goonies
• The History Boys
• Isle of Dogs
• Loving Vincent
• Mermaids
• The Princess Bride
• Reservoir Dogs