At the start of 2024, I set myself one goal: try and new do one new thing each month. I would love to sit here and say that I did just that, but I didn’t – but I did some great things, in the months that I did. January / the start of something new ..read more

Isha will be the undoing of Jinx, but I believe it will be so in the way to give rebirth to Powder. Here's some rambling as to why I think that, with act 3 only a few days away now ..read more

Back in July, I did something I haven't done for a long while - a solo holiday ✈️. I spent 48 hours in Belfast, a city I'd always dreamed of visiting but the timing never quite working out as I wished it would ..read more

As usual, I’ve started 2024 with my yearly Goodreads reading goal of 100 books! Maybe this year I’ll be successful. It’s unlikely that I’ll be successful (I have never once been successful since I started setting this same goal in 2014). I didn’t read a lot in January, but I did read two books that had been on my bookshelf for literal years. I moved home a year ago, in with my partner, and we do not have the space for books – I have just one singular three-story trolley, which is overflowing, and I have made the agreement that I will read all of them within the year so that I can donate them ..read more

As you know, last weekend was the Hoenn Tour in Pokémon GO. I’ll be recapping how the weekend went for me down below! Was anyone else… disappointed with this event? I fully felt like last year’s tour had a lot more going for it, both in terms of actual activities and Pokémon available. It’s a shame, because I was super excited – Hoenn was the first generation I played, having started my Pokémon journey with the GameBoy game Ruby. Naturally, I echoed that choice and selected Ruby for the weekend. It was disappointing to me that day two was a carbon copy of day one. Some additional challenges (e ..read more

Hi everyone! As mentioned in my January reading recap, I reached out to the lovely Lilac Mills to see if she was interested in having a nice little Q&A with me. Lilac lives on a Welsh mountain with her very patient husband and incredibly sweet dog, where she grows veggies (if the slugs don’t get them), bakes (badly) and loves making things out of glitter and glue (a mess, usually).   She is the author of over 12 romance novels, which have been translated across the world. What do you enjoy most about women’s fiction? Aside from the romance, I like that most of them are character d ..read more

Every year, I set my Goodreads reading goal to 100 books. I’ve never once completed this, but considering I’m going on almost ten years of this tradition – well, I’ve got to try! If you don’t want to read the full mini-reviews I’m going to share here, I have summed up my thoughts in a little TikTok! @wordsfromthepaige Books I’ve read this January! Tablet pics of the last two because I donated them before taking pictures #booktok #whatireadthismonth #jurassicpark ♬ Korok Forest (From “Zelda: Breath of the Wild”) [For Flute & Piano Duet] – daigoro789 This month, I managed to read five piec ..read more

Naturally, this blog post is going to contain spoilers for Netflix’s Wednesday, so if you haven’t watched the series yet, proceed with caution. 1. Who is the boy who passed up Principal Weems for Morticia Frump? We have two possible options here. One – Gomez. Two – Gareth. It doesn’t matter which option, really, as both could have caused the obvious tension between her and Morticia. And both would have caused her to be the first to discover Gareth – she was looking for one of them. I struggle to think that it was Gomez, as the interactions between the Addams and Weems focussed on her and Morti ..read more

Need inspiration on some gifts this festive season? Looking to go handmade and maybe save some money? Here are five perfect handmade gifts you can have a go at creating to give to friends and family this year! Candles Photo by Meruyert Gonullu via Pexels.com Home made candles are a timeless classic – for any occasion! If you have some essential oils laying around and some empty jars – you’re halfway there! There are plenty of tutorials online for candle making, and cheap ingredients (wicks & wax) can be purchased easily on Amazon or eBay. Body lotion Photo by Anna Schvets via Pexe ..read more

I was going to start this blog post with how watching a relatively unknown LGBTQ+ film during Pride month seems to be my annual tradition… however, it turns out I missed out last year! Nether the less, I started in June 2020 with a review of ‘Handsome Devil‘, and now I am reviewing the Amazon Original ‘Uncle Frank’. All in all, this was a lovely film. And whilst the main topics of grief and homophobia are often sad, dark, or even angst and anxiety inducing, I found this film quite the opposite. Eponymous, the film is about Elizabeth “Beth” Bledsoe’s Uncle Frank, and his fraught relationship wi ..read more