About

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Anna. 45. San Francisco. Brighton before that. San Francisco before that. And Brighton (again) before that. Before Brighton, predictably, London. Formerly living in Glasgow. Before that, on the Isle of Iona. Before that, Derbyshire. Before that, Manchester. Before that, Derbyshire again. Before that, London. None of my family live in London anymore. So where am I from?

I have a BA and an Mphil in subjects (acting, and dramaturgy) that didn’t seem but actually turned out to be extremely relevant to what I do now (TBD), and now I write stuff and tell people how to write stuff for varying amounts of money (and here, on this blog, for free). And it’s nice.

From March to September 2002, I made 635 candles. That’s a lot of hot wax.

Ten things

  1. I kept this blog from 2001-2013, then life took over, spammers squatted the domain, I lost control of the wordpress and all the posts disappeared. In 2017, as a birthday gift, My Beloved scraped the posts he could from the Wayback Machine, bless its holy name, and put them in WP ready for me when I was ready to blog again.
  2. I was not ready to blog again for another five and a half years, it turns out. But I think I am now. (As of November 2022, please check back in a few months to see if I’ve managed any more than a couple of posts). I am still not ready for comment boxes again. Not yet.
  3. When scraping the posts to move them over, they lost all formatting. So I’m adding back archives… but slowly, as I would prefer that they don’t look like shit.
  4. AND that they don’t reference things that are too vulnerable or reference people that I assumed would never see them back in the day. I was ever so green about what would and wouldn’t be findable on the internet (and what it might be used for if it was)
  5. I am split on whether I’ll use this blog to talk about work things sometimes. I probably will. Fact is, my work (words and stuff) is pretty meshed with my passion (words and stuff) so there will be inevitable cross-over.
  6. But I am not expecting I will get many high-profile jobs from the inevitable deluge of posts about how great peas are.
  7. They really are the pinnacle of all vegetables.
  8. Have you tried eating them frozen, straight from the bag? They’re the perfect snack. Really refreshing, crunchy, fresh.
  9. They’re also nice cooked. But not overcooked. Just lightly steamed with a little salt and perhaps some fresh herbs.
  10. Or in a risotto.

Oh dear, this became a list of things about peas. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, I guess.

Contact me:

If you should, by chance, want to email me, then send a message (remove the bit in capitals in the email address, remember) here. I’ll read it, promise.

If, by some awful happenstance, you have stumbled on here hoping to learn more about what I do or have done for a living, I can highly recommend LinkedIn instead. That is, by the way, the only time you will hear me say the words “I highly recommend linkedin”. Dreadful place.