If you check my blog regularly, you will certainly have noticed the lack of writing over the past 8 weeks. Indeed my writing over the year has been quite sporadic due to several reasons. The main one is simply…. Life. There are less hours in the day available, as work is so busy and…

For those loyal followers, old and new, you have probably been wondering where the heck I have been. Sadly due to multiple illness issues including a full knee replacement, seasonal cold, ear infection and now Pleurisy and Influenza, I haven’t been up to writing anything much. Please bear with me, as I will be…

Over the past nine or ten years, I have been attending Twinwood Vintage Festival. Initially as a half day, then a whole weekend camping, then renting 20 person bunkrooms, to having to adapt to attending in an electronic wheelchair. Fast forward to the past two years where I have attended with my two mentally…

If you are a long time reader of my blog, you will recall a trip last November to Bali and Singapore with Boo. The trip was organised for Plus-Size traveller, and Boo and I would be meeting them all for the first time. Completely out of my comfort zone, but you have to try…

Many, many moons back, I lived with an extended family including my Auntie Gwen. I have spoken about her on my blog in articles past, and she was instrumental in my upbringing. She would sometimes call me Floss or Flossy and it was a cute pen name that only she ever used.  Her middle…