Relationships – Should you Trust From the Start?

Relationships – Should you Trust From the Start?

Trust is a word that has featured a lot in several conversations the last few days both in SL and in RL. Trust is an anomaly, it's something so simple and fundamental and yet complex and multi-layered and you can't have a relationship, of any kind, without it. That Man Has Guilt Issues My rl [...]

It’s the Most Wonderstress Time of the Year

It’s the Most Wonderstress Time of the Year

I know I am not alone in finding the pressure piled on as we approach the Christmas season. In real life there is the shopping for presents and food, making sure the house is ready for the impending guests. There's work parties, secret santa gifts, food to prepare ahead of time, cards to write, gifts [...]

Have you seen ‘Christmas Offence’ with your own eyes?

Have you seen ‘Christmas Offence’ with your own eyes?

Last week I had quite a long and heated conversation with a friend about wishing people 'Merry Christmas'. He works in a customer facing environment and said that every year up til now he had passed on the greeting to people in his store, or on the phone, at the end of each conversation. But [...]

Love, I Get So Lost Sometimes

Love, I Get So Lost Sometimes

I'm not gonna lie...this week has been tough on my emotions and my patience...and Lord knows I didn't have a whole heap of the latter in the first place! I talked a few weeks ago about the shocking news that a cousin of mine had passed very suddenly in Egypt. She was buried the next [...]

There’s Hydrogen and Helium, Then Lithium, Beryllium Boron, Carbon everywhere, Nitrogen all through the air

My friend Zim once nicknamed me Nerderella and I will freely admit to being a bit of a geek. I think I'm more of an aspirational geek than a real born-to-geek type though. I put a lot of this down to the fact that I was so rubbish at Science at school. When I went [...]

Don’t Look Back in Anger…I heard her say

I blog for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes my blogs are specifically for my sponsors, sometimes they are just for me. This is my forum for processing my thoughts. I find getting them down in writing helps me deal with things and I often get feedback from others who are feeling the same. This [...]