fuller circle

Tiny bit more progress on this one 👌🏼💜 Phone just won't get the colours right but 🤷🏻‍♀️ * * https://www.instagram.com/p/BqM05EenOVX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1p0yntu7kczpq

As the nights draw in it is most definitely snuggly pet season. Here are a few old pet portraits... * [CW from top/L-R: Rufus & @darkened_nature_nicknackery, Bruce, and Bones] * * #petportrait #ferret #ferretsofinstagram #catsofinstagram #dogsofinstagram #jackrussell https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp77FbpHQH2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1btjn5uxbrem5

This could have been any RWE quote tbh because they're all pretty special, but this one happened to be up in the office... * * Too often I fixate on the 'normal' markers for accomplishment (house, car, career, relationship etc etc), rather than reminding myself of how far I've come and how much hard work I've invested in myself to get here. Maybe noone else can see that, but I know I have helped people, and continue to each day. Its not selfless, its selfish. I need it for myself as much as I'm needed. * * #loveyourself #selflove #growth #development #personalgrowth #empowerment #recovery #emergence #investinyourself #ralphwaldoemerson #autumnreflection #goinwards #godeep #everchanging https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpk2wFMn9cd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=111h1ft86cczm

#frowbackfriday // Ahhh this was SUCH a fun trip...had the best times with these utter babes!! I don't miss the game so much any more but I miss the roller derby community BIG style 💔 Still so much love for @bristolrollerderby It always made me feel like I was in A League of Their Own (1992) 😊 Tbf I do still feel part of it, even if I'm "retired" (for want of a better word). You can take the girl out of roller derby n all that... 😁✌🏽 I'll never not prefer being on skates to feet 😆 . . #rollerderby #rollerderbylife #skatelife #brd #bristolrollerderby #aleagueoftheirown https://www.instagram.com/p/Bo0_072BXt_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tcw5sg3s7dpf

Well straight off the back of #worldmentalhealthday comes #nationalcomingoutday and I am fucked if I'm staying in ANY closets any more (even if it means continually emerging from them). Yesterday was a start...now I'll continue... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 🏳️‍🌈 I identify as bi/pan (depending on context/ with whom I'm talking). It's been fucking hard getting my head around this but other people's transparency, particularly certain lovely humans close to me, have made this possible. . 🚻 When asked by a lovely new, completely non judgemental friend, recently if I identify as cis female I was finally able to consolidate what I've felt all my life and answer "no" 🙂 gender fluid sums it up fairly well, although it's complicated and trying to talk about it makes me feel really anxious, and my head hurt a lot 🙈 But i get that society is the issue, not me, so I'm fine with this. . 🍃 I AM SPIRITUAL! This has been the worst one for me... I've felt incapable of owning this as part of my identity for, like, ever. My beliefs are complex and don't fit neatly into one category. I'm interested in multiple religions and spiritual disciplines...I'm currently in the midst of trying to reconcile some kind of relationship with Christianity (possibly the least cool religion), after having felt completely wounded and betrayed by Catholicism, the religion I was raised in. Maybe I'll do that then move on...or maybe it'll stick. Who knows. But it's not right to feel fear for expressing who you are.. So I'll continue to be brave. One day at a time 🙏🍃💖🌟 . . #loveislove #godislove #spirituality #diversity #recovery #emergence https://www.instagram.com/p/BozUWBKBFjm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z520fwodjahr

So yesterday I stumbled upon my perfect sink 💖 Look at that artwork!! 😍👌🏼 Why are more bathrooms not like this? It's as if we'd rather pretend they didn't exist rather than give them the love we honour the rest of the building with. Well not @thebristoliancafe 😊 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I have this ongoing thing with sinks in public bathrooms... More often than not the taps don't extend far enough over the basic to even get my hands under (and I have pretty regular sized hands). I have to press them right up against the back of the basin to get *any* water over them, and that way I can't really move them to rinse properly. This happens a lot. Like, who is actually designing these sinks?! What are they thinking?! Usability is a pretty basic, fundamental aspect of design, right? I mean has anyone put the plug in to wash their hands in a public toilet in the last what 100 years?! 🤣 No entiendo. . . #sink #washroom #restroom #wc #watercloset #publictoilet #sinkporn #sinksofinstagram (at The Bristolian Cafe) https://www.instagram.com/p/BozF4I0HJsD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1224t1b1cta

Yep, pretty much! . . #sexism #equality #equity #feminism #maisiewilliams #quoteoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/BortRoOhJ-X/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gvjt825xeak4

Inktober: Day 6 // drooling . Let it be known that I did this in about 3 mins while out in a bar, approx two sheets to the wind. Its not big or clever but there we are 😂 . . @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #drooling #coastline #orca #orcawhale #penguin #seal #foodchain #circleoflife #thesea #mermaid4life https://www.instagram.com/p/Bom-HfcnRXy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10buf1gh2sgun

Inktober: Day 5 // Chicken . Pullus maris (Chicken of the Sea) . . . @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #inkpen #illustration #sketchoftheday #sketchbook #chicken #tuna #tunafish #chickenofthesea #friendsnotfood #diver #diving #scubadiving #meditation #underwatermeditation #zen #thunnusthynnus https://www.instagram.com/p/Bokl810nhoq/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=40617bbupo3o

Ahh that's better 💜 Inktober: Day 4 (take 2) // Spell 💫 . . @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #spell #wizard #seawizard #gnarled #lookandlearn #magice #illustration #sketchoftheday #sketchbook #inkpen https://www.instagram.com/p/Boi8XueHZJV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cy4kgak82zme

Inktober: day 4 // Spell . . Ugh so tired! Feel like work is sapping my ability to get in the zone atm 🙈 . . @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #spell #wizard #seawizard #lookandlearn #magice #illustration #sketchoftheday #sketchbook #inkpen #brainfried #isitfridayyet https://www.instagram.com/p/Boh2FrQnr39/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=388wr5tldq4p

Inktober: Day 3 // Roasted . . https://www.instagram.com/p/BofPYHiHsZt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k6mh2stcxm7s

Inktober: Day 2 T R A N Q U I L . . Much love and thanks to @darkened_nature_nicknackery for the cuppa, chat, hair cut and inspiration this eve 💕 Legend. . . @inktober @jakeparker #inktober #inktober2018 #tranquil #tranquility #tranquilitea #tealove #wheretheresteathereshope #sketchoftheday #inkpen #inkpenart #surfer #surflife #sunset https://www.instagram.com/p/BocqNqTHhBS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1mantn83s5yvz

It begins!! Day 1: Poisonous . . @jakeparker @inktober #inktober #inktober2018 #poisonous #theresamay #maybot #harpie #seagull #illustration #sketchbook #sketchoftheday #brexit #fuckbrexit #fuckthetories #idiotclub #brexitbritain #characature #anarchy #annalives (at Bristol, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoaPyg6n1mG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=tpnx4djmxf0m