TW: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation I’ve been thinking for a while about what to post next and on my laptop I have a bunch of headings of stuff I want to talk about in no particular order. …

TW: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation In my last piece I talked about how I was going spend 2023 trying to get to grips with the increasing suicidal ideation I’ve been feeling. …

TW: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation My name is Emma. I’m a forty something year old mum, autistic, really good at my job, almost never take a day off sick and for the past three years I’ve kept data on how many times I’ve thought seriously about not being alive anymore. …

(With apologies to The Futureheads) This is the first year I’ve not put Christmas decorations up. I don’t hate Christmas, in fact I love it. As a child I adored the time of year. My birthday is two weeks before Christmas so the whole month of December would be an…

As a photographer I’ve got used to not being in photos. Nowadays with social media and the rise of the selfie that’s less often the case for some photographers and a good deal of Instagram feeds don’t show you much beyond the face of the person who wields the camera…

Since the pandemic began I’ve been working at home and apart from a week long holiday with my closest friend’s family in 2020 I haven’t been in any group situations for the past 18 months. One of the things I enjoyed doing in the pre-Covid world was going on residential…

I always felt I was “a bit autistic”. It was a phrase I often used to use, usually apologetically, when I was doing something a bit pernickety like moving a glass away from the edge of a table or neatly labelling storage boxes of media at work. It was however…

Ever since I started to use Virtual Reality regularly I began to think about VR fitness. I had used VR before; initially at work and then in the privacy of my own home via PSVR on my PlayStation, but all the experiences I had used were largely sedentary. I went…

For the past year or so I have been playing around with 360° photography but it’s taken me a while to really appreciate it. Whilst I totally understand the appeal of being able to capture an entire scene (including the sky above your head and the ground beneath your feet)…