A day of lots of moments of joy

I feel like I noticed lots of little nice moments today. I think maybe I was looking out for them.

Waking up with James.

Breakfast with Rosie – she made me feel so much better. And I love our rude conversations in public places.

Choosing a sweet breakfast for a change.

The delicious coffee.

Walking along the canal in the sunshine and spotting the birds popping up from diving.

Walking through the park singing along to the pop songs.

Replacing my really shabby body polisher.

Spotting Gerry in the van and giving him a wave.

Walking through my borough and remembering all the places I’ve done things, all the work I’ve done.

Feeling ready to chat to Jo again.

Home alone, normality with Rosie and Woman World

I’m home alone! For two weeks! I took a bath and lay naked on my bed reading and then masturbated. It felt so much better immediately.

Seeing Rosie. And feeling normal again. And laughing and being silly.

Sarah sent me Woman World and I LOVE it.

Brunch, salty fingers and seaside doughnuts

Brunch in a cute cafe with delicious coffee.

Dipping our fingers in the sea.

The special seaside doughnuts in the paper bag with all the sugar.

Happy music, free ginger biscuit and smiling at strangers

Listening to This Little Light of Mine on the walk in. Followed by the Imperial Brass Funeral Jazz Band. Such happy music.

A free and very gingery biscuit at Romeo’s.

Smiling at strangers in my walk home, and they smiled back.

Better, storms and a really good coffee

I don’t know if it’s the cooler weather or something else but I feel so much happier today. I love my outfit. I feel confident. I feel good.STORMS. I LOVE STORMS.My delicious coffee. I knew it would be okay today. And it was. And it was so yummy.

Morning sunshine, making light of it and an easy evening

The sunshine in the morning, looking up at it from my bed.

Coffee and courgette cake with Jo, making light of it.

Going to see her new flat and eating biscuits and tea and beer and watching TV.

New ideas, second date and Jen cuddles

A nice coffee with an GWer, getting

excited about new ideas

Discovering that we’d already agreed to a second date

Seeing Jen and having cuddles

Adam, train games and Snoop sweets

Drinking coffee and listening to music with Adam and generally not getting much done.

Playing Would You Rather on the train.

Some funny M&S packaging

Morning snack, library books and Hot Stone

A flat white and a custard straw to get me through the morning

Another pile of books from the library

Dinner at Hot Stone with Stuart’s mates. Delicious food and the Greeks are so funny. Head banging and touching hot stones.

Admired, seated and sated

Jo, saying lovely things about me

Getting the good seat at work

The cheap delicious flat white in the collapsible cup

Iced coffee, kissing and my period

A delicious iced coffee that someone else paid for and I drank during a work meeting.

Kissing Stuart.

Blood blood bloody blood.

Jo, volunteering, Jen and lovely words

A lovely coffee in the sun with Jo and deciding to set up Bloody Women. Or something similar.

Volunteering at BGP. I wasn’t really looking forward to it but it was actually really nice.

An afternoon with Jen. Sun walks, a picnic in the park and Floundering with Maria.

Getting this message from someone on This is a Vagina. So lovely.

Yep. Four today. It’s been a lovely day.

Islington, lunchtime treat and things to do

Beautiful Islington. God I love it here.

Going for a coffee and a pastéis de nata at lunchtime on my own, reading my book in the sunny cafe.

I had a proper to do list and actual things to do. It felt good.

New coffee place, slow Paks and sunbathing in the park

Having an iced coffee in the sun outside the new (to us) coffee place near our new house.

Walking slowly round Paks, looking at everything and not feeling rushed.

Lying in the park, reading in the sun on my own. It’s been a really relaxing quiet day.

Anti-office, brew crew and a night in

Being out and about in the van and the sun, not the office.

Brew Crew. Being paid to have a coffee and a chat. That was nice.

A hot water bottle, a bowl of fruit and Love.

A good meeting, life admin sorted, thunder and a family style party

Going for a meeting with coffee, cake, big eyebrows and a walk around a beautiful secret garden.

Walking around in the sun, getting some little life admin things done. It’s nice to have some time off work.

A thunderstorm.

A 50th party in a golf club. Unexpectedly fun.

Socks, fatberg and cocktails

When his socks matched the floor of the Tate. And the woman next to us laughed too.

Getting hyped up on coffee and going to see the fatberg. And the cat memes that helped to get women the vote.

Discount Suit Company. Cocktails and chats.

Live, meetings and Jana

BOW website is live! It’s happening.

Two nice meetings. One drinking coffee and walking around the park, mainly just getting to know each other. And one with two cool architects designing a fun project I want to do.

Dinner with Jana. In a beautiful Japanese restaurant.

Cousin, park walks and a musical

Coffee and catch ups with my cousin at Tate Britain.

Walking through Green Park, arm in arm. And taking photos for her Bumble.

Going to see a musical last minute for £4. The fight scenes were hilarious!

Vulva, the 90’s and Corinne

Sewing a vulva

Watching Dawson’s Creek

Having a couple of coffees with Corinne

Coffee, Sarah and the good housemates

A local coffee with Jo. That turned into lunch too.

An afternoon of Tate pottery and too much cake with Sarah. Where she talked total sense and made me realise a few things. I don’t need to trivialise my sadness. 

An evening with the housemates. Minus the rubbish one. Matt cooked us a roast. And it was just nice.

Breakfast, buzzing and a party in Deptford

Coffee with Jen. She was nice to me and didn’t tell me off.

Going to the WOW campaign workshop. So lovely to meet more fabulous women. And be asked for help on a project by someone who was facilitating it! Such a buzz. 

Lottie’s party. Alec’s stories, seeing Ciaran, drunk Jonny, inflexible Doug and hanging out with Will. It was a really fun night!

Sunday jobs, Sunday activities and Sunday evening

Cutting the grass.

Decaf iced coffee in the sun at Blighty, reading my book.

Beautiful clouds.

Brunch, texts and Fam Camp

Blighty brunch with the core besties. That iced coffee saved me.

Some train texts on the way to Fam Camp.

Sitting around the fire with my family, wearing my walking boots and chatting to some family members that don’t normally get the chance to speak. And singing about bananas and big fat ponies.

More shoots, sunny coffee and park discovery

Even more sunflowers popping​ up.

Coffee in the sun with Jo. I needed hugs and sympathy after last night.

Walking around Gillespie Park. The bit I haven’t been to before. Flowers and bees and beautiful things. 🐝🌺🌼🌷🌻

Double Tate, double coffee and double housemates

All the art. None of the money. Thanks borrowed Tate Card.
Cortado. Delicious, delicious cortado.

An evening with Matt, menstruating, eating ice cream and watching a weird film. Then having some good discussions with Mike. 

A Beyonce start, forest fun and a tiny train

Starting off the day with a Queen Bee coffee.

Running around the forest with the kids, climbing on everything and being in the trees.

Going on the mini train.

Dog lolz, Queen Bey lolz and blue sky days

A bloody brilliant dog photo.

This hilarious article about asking the irish parliament their views on Beyonce.

Being outside in the sunshine and blue skies, delicious coffees and kiwi cafes. What a perfect day.

P.s. and an unexpected but fun WhatsApp phone call about British reservedness

Sunny coffee, Beyonce driving and more perfect light

Sunny garden coffee mid pack with Bivan. 

Beyonce came on the radio as I was driving the van in the sun. The perfect moment.

Walking home with that lovely spring smelling air, the light fading. The light has just been everything today.

Breakfast date, decisions day and a knitted vagina

A breakfast date with Holly before her honeymoon. Double coffee and an almond croissant and three hugs.

A hectic but quite fun day, doing four people’s jobs. The caffeine and mystery dessert left by Gust helped. Pretty sure it had alcohol in it. 

My Secret Santa present from my housemate. He knitted me my vulva design! I was completely blown away – what an amazing and thoughtful (and time consuming) gift!