Somehow, whenever V has a day off and the weather is as fine as it was today and we go out for a walk (and a shop) we end up by the...

This is one of those days when no one can deny that I am a workaholic. 101%. I had a TO-DO list spread across two pages in my notebook -...

Every time I go out of the house and it’s sunny and I’m wearing my prescription sunglasses, I feel like I’ve upgraded my life. J and V...

Few things in life make me calmer than sitting at the front of the upper deck of a bus on a sunny day and reading. There’s a certain...

Let me tell you a story… Once upon a time in a land far, far away, there was a girl who always forgot to drink water. She would sometimes...

I wrote a little review on the blog today: https://www.bside.blog/post/a-popular-unpopular-opinion-on-sally-rooney It’s a bit strange...

I’m not sure if what I’m going to say here will fall under the popular or unpopular opinions on Sally Rooney. If you read the London...

With 10 days left before my next voyage to Romania and less than two weeks before my first face to face creative writing workshop, I...

Yep. J and I woke up this morning, had some breakfast, and then hopped onto Zoom as guests on a podcast. We were invited to talk about...

Today I finished reading my Uncle’s first book. I read half of it last year (and wrote about it here), but then I took a break because I...

I was putting together my promo post earlier, talking about using different methods to get going with your writing, when I realised that...

First of June and the first official artistic collaboration with J. We’ve worked together plenty of times before, but for this project,...

I’m working today, not playing golf. I mean, I am, but, you know, it’s for work. Plus, this is not even golf, it’s ‘putting’ - a golfing...

So beautiful, simply popping out here and there - on the street, in the garden, in the park. Little brave flowers, if you ask me. That...

I really don’t have much to say about today. I read a bit in the morning, I spoke to my parents on Skype, we went shopping, we cooked,...

Jeanine and I have a tendency to be a bit extra when it comes to promoting events. So, today we went on a trip around London for a writer...

18 June 2022 11 am (Ro time) @ the Baia Mare Youth Centre My first face to face creative writing workshop for youth. I can’t wait! I’m...

The best thing about being a youth worker and running projects for young people is, well, everything about it. Look, I spent half my day...

Nick Pettigrew - ‘Anti-Social: The Secret Diary of an Anti-Social Behaviour Officer’. I’m not even one hundred pages in yet (I’m reading...

Here’s some news: I’m taking a trip to Romania in June. And because I am myself, I decided I’d do something fun while I’m there, and by...