This dress has been in my charity shop for weeks. Each time I go in, it is there. Nothing generally stays in the shop for more than a day, so I felt really sorry for the dress and bought it, and it is gorgeous.

Necklaces, air-conditioning pleasure, no caution needed in my running today - it was so hot - and in Missoni for the rest of the hot day.

Oh hi pretty dresses from the charity shop 🩷

There’s a book I’ve been wanting forever from @manchesterup.bsky.social and it is out next month. I’m counting down the days.

In my shorts and a vest, practising for the hot weather.

Before the heatwave begins and I have to try to find things to wear in hot weather (I am rubbish at this!), I wore my little ba&sh knit, a shirt and a huge skirt.

Pretty things in May 🩷

Sunshine and my favourite white dress.

I love socks with everything.

Jo Whiley playing Ash’s Girl From Mars reminds me of my 1996 Indie loving days at Bangor in my Top Shop dress and feather boa.

Tucked in, ready to PhD the night away.

You can get my pamphlet, Portrait in Mustard, for less than a coffee. Make your coffee a feminist one a celebration of Feminist Fortnight.

Having crisps and dips and a really strong coffee for my tea.

It is almost 3 years since I graduated from my MA in creative writing. When I graduated, my first book had just come out @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. Now, in these last months of the PhD, I’m so excited for my new work to come out, and for me and my lovely maquettes to emerge after 3 yrs together🩷

Casual dressing in my charity shop outfit to buy dahlias. I love them so much 🩷

Reached a new low in boring dreams, dreaming I arrived at a National Trust property and had forgotten my membership card.

Today has been another day for dressing in pink 🩷

Started in just the vest for the first time in 2026. Was freezing!

Just had an MRI. Piercings out: yes! Bra off: yes! HRT patch off: PANIC CENTRAL.

Hilariously Whitney’s One Moment in Time came on the radio after parkrun. Obviously I’ve not just competed in the Olympics, but parkrun gives me that feeling of achievement. And after a week in which I’ve felt a bit disappointed, it gives me the sense that the best is on its way.

Am really into dressing in dangerously light outfits.

Charity shop 100% cashmere jumper. Really into cute colours atm in anticipation of my blonde makeover in May. Pictured is my other purchase.

My gift to my 40+ self is the elasticated tulle skirt. Pretty and gorgeously comfortable 🩷

Thank you @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social for this recommendation. I absolutely love it.

The pretty things are my favourite things 🩷

All booked in for later this month. Rejection hair.

A huge disappointment resulted in a night of crying and my first non PhD poem since 2023. Oh hi poetry. I’m back! 🩷

Hey Bluesky folks. If you’re in education or just follow for my thirst traps, would you please sign this if you can, and share far and wide? c.org/dCKk9vjqxY It’s much appreciated. My university is cancelling all UG humanities degrees. We need support and love right now x

In 2001 I had a bleached blonde bob and an asymmetrical top and I’m really thinking I may go back to this look.

In my pretty charity shop dress and counting the days until the gorgeous part of my HRT cycle starts and I am back on the progesterone. Day 15, I love you 🩷

Charity shop lovely outfits. My Sézane dress and cashmere cardigan 🩷

Really jealous of my spring 2025 charity shop looks.

Things I have done today include change my HRT patch, and brush my cashmere charity shop cardigan. I will title my day, Locating the Wild Times.

Done everything possible to avoid the PhD. I even ironed which I hate. So now the PhD seems quite hot compared to ironing.

From too much leopard yesterday, to neutral today. These outfits make me feel terrified for spills. At least neutral hides everything.

I am supposed to be PhDing. Instead I am making up outfits for summer and reading this amazing book.

When the sun was so hot and bright before I started running, this was the time to take off my mesh under-layer. But no! Too obvious. Why not wait, then try to take it off whilst running, flash your bra, and get the top stuck on your head?

Things I love in one picture: Charity shop outfit Too much lipliner, 90s style Books EVERYWHERE Hoops Hoops hoops hoops (I love hoops) Crisps I have just eaten

Leopard etc..

Leopard. The love never gets less.

This week in outfits ❤️

For years I did postal voting due to being away as cabin crew, now with that in the past, I’m off to do it in person!

Loving this.

Funny how huge, bronze sculptures are such a comfort in times of grief. Revisiting this research trip in 2024 shows how, in the midst of sadness, the warmth of bronze soothes and envelops. These trips held me together, and continue to do so still.

Our next book is the incredible PAIN SONGS by Daniel Sluman. Here's a poem from the collection, 'Chronic'. Out 14th May, ready to order now: ninearchespress.com/publications...

When full of nerves, the comfort of spending time with your own PhD, feels like a person you know inside out, in the way they end a sentence like winged eyeliner, cite Rachel Blau DuPlessis at any given occasion, and that you love the work of Griselda Pollock.

The weekend and her menstruating faces.

Had to cover self with scarf in cinema as was eating olives in a white dress which is a dangerous decision to make when you are as messy as me.

No hoops! No necklaces! Just the prettiest dress ever 🩷

My skirt is a map which I will never be able to follow, and will always get lost anyway. Useless outfits etc 😂