Candyfloss & Dreams

I started blogging well over 15 years ago. This website was my income for a while. I met so many wonderful people. I was offered lots of lovely products and freelance work because of it. When covid hit I completely lost all momentum and I never really got it back. Its still here, I still pay for hosting, but I hardly ever update it. I hardly keep up with social media. I’m not really the same…

This was a long time coming. My first experience of savage raiding was in Endwalker and my experience taught me a lot about raiding and how to play a couple of jobs on an ‘okay I can clear savage’ level which really just made extremes and normal content a bit more straightforward for me. I was never able to finish a tier. Some of that was my own lack of skill, some of that was group dynamics and…

The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy has been a surprisingly enjoyable visual novel style game with tower defense combat to jump in and out of over the last couple of weeks. I’ve got around 60 hours of playtime with one full playthrough and I am currently making my way through NG+ to unlock some of the various endings and reveal more of the truth of what is going on. I didn’t actively follow…

I first saw this game advertised as an upcoming release on Xbox Game Pass in March I think and was curious about it so went ahead to read more. It looked like the sort of thing I’d enjoy with an interesting narrative premise, a creative art style and one of my favourite things in video games; turn-based combat. I pre-installed it so that I could try on its release on 24th April and for the last…

This has been something I almost new was a certainty but didn’t want to admit it. Home education has been a back and fourth in my mind, and in conversations with my daughter for a really long time and the first week back after the January term started I finally made the decision and deregistered my daughter from her secondary school. This blog probably wouldn’t have started, or not how it did,…

Currently, as of 2025, the education in place in England as it stands right now is sub par, exclusionary and archaic. Mainstream school with the current national curriculum that has been in place for decades does not adhere to the growing technological and multicultural country we live in. It is outdated for a modern age. Huge change needs to happen to the subjects being taught and more…

I feel like the title says everything about this post. I have been playing video games since the PS1 era of video games, so that’s quite a long time at this point but the variety and amount of games or franchises I’ve stuck to has been quite small until the last few years where I have branched out a bit more I suppose. Then in 2023 I got a proper gaming PC and therefore had more access, and…

I’m going to preface this right now with homeschool is not an option for me. As an AuDHD person that attempted a form of Crisis Schooling when schools closed it was equally as stressful as trying to convince a school refuser to attend school. I lack the mental energy from complete burnout to try and creatively think of ways to ‘unschool’ or come up with some kind of learning. I can’t drive which…

Committing myself to evil atrocities in my second full playthrough as The Dark Urge origin character was pretty fun and something I really recommend for a second playthrough. I also used it as a chance to do things I had missed out on in my first playthrough of Balders Gate 3 where I did mostly play a good character. Now I’m considering could I actually try and play in a harder difficulty and see…

I was completely in the mood for a short and sweet YA contemporary romance and something a little more on the nerdy side was just my thing. Dungeons and Drama is a cute high school romance with fake dating to full on flirty swooning. I had some real laugh out loud moments throughout my read, I read it in two sittings because it was addictive and I really liked the characters. Riley is loud,…

For the longest time I have been trying to figure out a way of getting back to being myself, that I have been just kind of existing in time and space being a parent which hasn’t left a lot of time to really focus in on what I love and what fills my cup so to speak. But I am craving it. I miss being creative in those little ways of taking photos of books and trying to improve, of moving my body,…

It’s a pretty coming trait amongst ADHDers to have time blindness. The concept of time is unfathomable to me. I sit here writing this having already procrastinated and distracted myself from writing this post several times, knowing I need to be ready to leave the house at 9.10am this morning, knowing how long it takes me to get ready so I’ve given myself enough time to sort my stuff out. Morning…

Having never played any Yakuza game in my life, picking up Yakuza: Like A Dragon with very little context on the series was a choice, largely dictated by the availability on Game Pass, seeing two odd screenshots in a discord server and exactly one commendation of someone saying they liked it. I remember seeing many memes following release footage of Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth and Final…

I got a planner for 2024 that encourages monthly full moon illuminations and new moon reflections. It’s an interesting idea and something I’d like to try and stick to as a way of journaling. I probably won’t write a blog post for each and every one but I’m also feeling a desire to write so it makes sense to go with it. With the moon at it’s fullest it’s a time when things should be coming to…

I could have left playing Persona 3 Portable in such a short space of time honestly. These games aren’t exactly known for being done in a short space of time. I know, for one, having already played Persona 4 Golden and Persona 5 Royal. However, nothing kicks in my ADHD hyperfocus quite like a deadline, particularly if it’s something I enjoy. So how did I do, did I manage to actually complete…

Spoilers below for the RPG video game by Larian Studios Balders Gate 3 based on Dungeons & Dragons. Balders Gate 3 is an incredible good game and worth putting in the long hours to get to the end of the story. I finished a complete play through last night which was the second campaign I started after kind of messing things up on my first campaign and deciding to start again. I have since gone…