Attempted to give a casual acquaintance a compliment. Ended up looking like a weirdo. Will now have to hide any time I see them even vaguely in the distance.

We interrupt our planned hiatus to announce we’d forgotten how dreadful the public art is in the town of our birth, Gateshead. And that they could have done anything when they redeveloped the town centre and they choose THIS…

Newsfeeds are very shrill (with reason). I’m not in a place to deal with the overwhelming bleakness of it all right now, so going to take time out for a few days. Take care, here’s Jack.

Today is weird. But I’m ok.

Walk

That emotional wobble I had a week ago is back. I have to do something I really don't want to do, which has many thorns and abrasions, bc after asking myself many questions, not doing it is marginally the worst option in the circumstances. I have developmental PTSD. I have to step back into it.

Blimey #SCD I’m not sure I’m ready for this version of Nikita Hot Pants Kuzman… 🔥🔥

At age 15, I thought Patricia Morrison was the coolest woman on the planet. And her baselines make this album which I used to listen to on my cassette walkman under the covers. Now I have it on vinyl and it still sounds magnificent.

Just sent Coffee Bitch out in the howling rain for more wine for #TOTP whoop! It’s really cosy in our front room and I’m really content 😌

Really enjoyed Del Toro’s Frankenstein, though many liberties were taken! Now watching Tim Curry’s IT. Really good but blimey it is so early 90s visually.

Jack has the right idea.

Morning Skyfolk. I'm a bit downbeat today. Physio this morning. I was trialling excessive vitamin B2 for migraine, which I could tell was helping me sleep better, but as soon as I titrated up, I was hit with a huge allergic reaction. So, back to sleeping with violence 😔

A metaphor for my existence.

Very much toying with watching the whole of Supernatural again bc I just ain't clicking with anything else, including stuff like Interview with the Vampire, Mayfair Witches etc, and given Netflix cancels everything, anything fantasy based on there (Half Bad was fantastic you sods).

PIP renewed. May sob quietly in a corner. Destitution averted for 3 years.

Taking 5 before the serious stuff starts.

I can't go into detail, but I'm having a proper emotional wobble tonight, and feeling pretty helpless about something. I'm normally pretty decent in a crisis, but some things just take your legs out from under you. Pets and daft pics would be most appreciated.

So, a few weeks ago, I deleted my Facebook account. I've so not missed it. Just saying.

Saw Favourite Person today. She was funny and sweet, and a little bit subversive. So very lucky to have her.

DWP texted me on Monday to say they’ve made a decision on my PIP review (without an interview), but they won’t tell me by text or phone what it is as they’re writing to me. No letter yet 😱😱😱😱 I do believe they exist to torture people for being disabled.

Last moments in Whitby.

Yes, our view is spoiling us. #Whitby

Morning Skyfolk. Last morning in Whitby. The boys are watching the sun come up.

Today’s Whitby is rainbows, skeletons and Alice.

Morning Skyfolk. #Whitby

An early good morning, Skyfolk. Indeed, I'm not sure I've been asleep, my brain had the rattles. Off to Whitby at lunchtime. Weirdly stressed about it, though once there, it will be fine. Hope you're all doing grand.

Good morning Skyfolk. Ouch! Beer bad.

I love Halloween £

Right, I'm putting away my worries for a while, it's Halloween, it's my wedding anniversary, a new Creeper album just dropped and if you like OTT Sisters of Mercy Jim Steinman hybrids eulogising heaven and hell, then you will find it aces! And we're headed out for chips and wine!

It’s actually really good to have a gp who states that they have reached the end of their competency in treating me and that I need specialist treatment, and are therefore referring me directly to neurology going forward for treatment. Like, really good that he acknowledges I’m complicated.

Packing continues. I’ve never actually worn this jacket, bought it second hand more as a pinboard for my pins and brooches. But perhaps it deserves an outing.

Morning Skyfolk. Latest man cave- my bed.

I just rang to book a table for tea on Sunday and apparently the entire hotel is being decorated by goths today and it sounds absolutely fantastic!

Good morning from North Shields.

Anyone any advice on how to polish metal brooches? The one on the left is silver, the other two costume jewellery. Cheers.

And yes, it’s my favourite hotel again. They’ve booked us an abbey view room.

Anyhow, this is my Sunday night hotel frock, and I have the sweetest little goth winkle pucker shoes with moons and a high neck shear lace blouse to go underneath, so yeah, bring on the goth! I love goth weekend, but I find the sheer volume of people on the Saturday overwhelms me now. So Sunday!

Just had a polite email from our Whitby hotel regarding the fact they're having a huge goth party on Sunday night and 'it might be noisy'! It sounds like fun!

Man cave.

I’m so happy that I stockpiled Greggs before wine 😀

Anyway I’m back in Pink Flamingo land and have found someone who will sell wine by the glass. At the gig they tried to sell me an entire bottle too. Stop it, Newcastle!

Glenn Hughes was insanely good. Unfortunately an audience member took very unwell so the gig was cut short. But Burn was incredible.

Found a better bar.

I’m in gig jeans and it’s obviously cocktails with the girls night. I’m in. Sex and the City dystopian universe. And my half of Morretti tastes like the devils urine.

I’m staying in a reasonably decent hotel, mostly chosen out of nostalgia bc it’s where my favourite person used to stay. Room is decent, but the bar is 1980s cocktail stockbroker levels of naff. The coffee machine is broken, you can’t buy a single glass of wine & the cocktails are slamming!

Currently a tourist in my own town and River Island is like a fever dream. Riverdale Gossip Girl eat your heart out!

Morning Skyfolk. Pre therapy therapy.

OK no body meltdown. Just REM sleep meltdown. The cinema in my head went full Carrie.

Supposed to be doing my last writing course assignment, which is well underway, but my brain is sludge and so instead I'm listening to The Mission's Butterfly on a Wheel & feeling rather whimsical. I have just been sniffing some rather nice M&S perfume with patchouli; think the vibes are getting me!