Real Life Ate Christmas

Real Life Ate Christmas

I mentioned a few weeks ago how about how my plans for Christmas completely and utterly changed with one phone call. Suddenly I went from having a quiet Christmas with just my partner and children to having various arrangements for parents, siblings, nieces, cousins etc.  I've literally just closed the door behind the last of [...]

What Is the True Meaning of Christmas to you?

What Is the True Meaning of Christmas to you?

I am missing a major event in my Christmas calendar this year. Every year for the last 3-4 years the company I worked for organised a Christmas Dinner at a local homeless charity. The majority of the staff helped out. The night before we'd be roasting turkeys and peeling vegetables ready for the day ahead. [...]

Appreciating my SLife Surprises

Appreciating my SLife Surprises

There have more than a few over the last week or so which have given me so much confidence in myself. It started last week when I received, not one, but two notifications from the Avi Choice Fashion Awards to let me know that I had received nominations and had been shortlisted. The Glamour Sauce [...]

How Much Solitude Should One Seek in a Social Virtual Reality World?

Sometimes I want to be alone in Second Life. Now, it's true that sometimes that is because I withdraw when things are bothering me and sometimes it's just because I like the peace and quiet. Many of us treat SL as a bit of an escape and the things we can be trying to escape [...]

All Good Girls Really Want a Swamp…Don’t they?

Once upon a time there was a girl with a vision. She had seen other girls playing with their beaches and forests and she wanted something to play with herself. But this girl wanted to be different. She wanted a swamp. She wanted the grit, the murkiness and dankness of a living, breathing swamp. While [...]

The Broken Body Clock

This whole extra hour in bed sounds like a great idea but in practice it doesn't work. In the UK British Summer Time officially ended in the early hours of Sunday morning when our clocks went back an hour. Technically this meant an extra hour in bed which sort of worked out on Sunday morning [...]

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 [...]