This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting my head around this site, so forgive me if your (and my) first experience is a little clunky. This website is years in the making, I’ve been talking about writing a blog (although that term makes me cringe a little) for an embarrassingly long time and just never got round to actioning it (typical me). But alas, here I am, set up with a website and my very own space to write and share with you whatever it is I feel like ranting about!

The date is July 6th 2020 and anyone who pays even a little bit of attention to the world right now will know that we are in the middle of a complete shit show. Fear not, this is not a rant about COVID-19, just a reminder to myself I suppose that even if by the end of this pandemic I have done nothing but set this up, then that is enough of an achievement.

Now I am going to keep this first one short and sweet and just elaborate a little as to why I wanted to do this and what I wanted to achieve by setting it up.

When I was young I always put pen to paper, probably not as well as I like to think I do now but it was always an escape and a source of comfort. Just the same as reading something that you feel really speaks to you, or a song that gets you right in the feels. As I got older, the writing continued through the woes of teenage life and helped me navigate my way through all of the awkward stages of puberty and trying to find out who I was as a person. I was a teenager in the Noughties and crimping my hair, wearing foundation that was 87 shades wrong for my face, coupled with some sassy blue mascara and my best Jane Norman or Tammy Girl outfit were some of life’s biggest problems on the surface of it all. I’m sure that all of us edging ever closer towards 30 will know that the struggle was REAL.

Anyway, I think that writing helped me to articulate myself well. I then went on to do a degree in History and English (which I have barely used since getting it I might add) and all through my twenties people I meet and people I know have said I should do something like this. Some people have even suggested being a YouTuber or an Influencer but quite frankly I would rather shit myself, but that is a rant for another time.

A big part of what makes me tick as a person is trying to do good, for others and myself. Do good, be good, feel good. So what I want to get out of this ‘experiment’ we shall call it for now, is to help others feel a little better than before they found this site.

Finally, thanks for reading this far, share with anyone you think will enjoy it and leave comments and/or get in touch!

Ona xo