Parenthood brings sleepless nights, tears and tantrums, nappy changes from hell, and the firm belief that you’re Cameron Diaz … wait, what?! New mum, Jen Wight, definitely wasn’t expecting that. But after her son was born, her worldview shifted in strange and unexpected ways. Within weeks, Jen found herself living a very different life – working […]
I’ve started writing again. (Yipee!) as I want to improve my rusty fiction skills. I’m working my way through The Way To Write by John Fairfax and John Moat of Arvon fame. It is aimed at the beginner writer but the language is sophisticated, engaging and brain expanding. One of the first exercises they recommened […]
In these best and/or worst of COVID times, online shopping is having a heyday. Jeff Bozos’s wealth is estimated to have increased by $24bn from December 2019 to April 2020 thanks to all the people shopping on Amazon. If you have a few spare quid and feel like doing something great, why not buy a recently released […]
My interview with Emily at BBC World Service’s Outlook programme aired last week. On the BBC. World Service. I KNOW. Gwad, it’s weird to hear your own voice coming out of the radio. I am so glad to have been interviewed by the BBC and hope this will really help raise awareness of PPP and […]
When my sister, Jo, was three or four she had an accident. She was climbing up the outside of the bannisters, which she was expressly forbidden to do, and fell, catching her arm in between two of the uprights, breaking her arm badly. My parents took her to The Queen Elizabeth’s Children’s Hospital in Haggerston […]
Follow my blog with Bloglovin My big sister has had severe schizophrenia for almost 30 years. When she was first ill and I was in my teens someone said something to me that I can still remember to this day. I was working in my first job at Hackney Community College and having lunch with three other […]
Jen S. Wight 