life – Betty Virago

Covid-19 Craft Hacks

As it turned out, the vital tools for survival aren’t machetes, but sewing machines.
Here’s my favourite tutorials to get us through Covid-19

The Progress of Plodding on – EPY week 5

I sat down to write my now regular post about the EPY week, for about 30 minutes I’ve sat here thinking, what happened this week? Bank Holiday weekend was awful, as usual, we had constant downpours and the strange hot but rainy weather that often leaves me with a migraine, and what a migraine, byContinue reading “The Progress of Plodding on – EPY week 5”

Communicating Poverty

This is a post I have written for the Leeds Poverty Truth commission, which I post here for others to read and ponder. Over the past seven years I’ve gone from being hospitalised every couple months to getting a place at University. I didn’t do it alone and although it was hard work it alsoContinue reading “Communicating Poverty”