An Introduction

When life and work feel unmanageably busy and you're disillusioned with blogging, what's a girl to do? Why, sign up again to Blog Every Day In May: that's a sensible decision, right?! I already know there is no way, not a chance in hell, I'll manage to blog every single day, but I figured I'd give it a go and hopefully recover my blogging mojo in the process. I completed both #BEDM and #BEDN in 2013 and made so many great new blog friends that, even if I fail miserably, it seemed worth a try.

The topic today is 'Introduce Yourself' so, for both new readers and old, here a few things you may not know about me.

1. Although I'm now a teacher, my past jobs have included travel agent, barmaid, book seller, legal secretary, and club promoter.

2. My hair has been every colour from pink to blue but for the past few years I've settled on red. However, I'm a natural blonde under all the dye.

3. My absolute favourite place on earth is Portland, Oregon. With my bed running a very close second.

4. I read voraciously (I managed nineteen books in April). Check out my books tag to see some recent reviews.

5. I'm a body positive, queer, trans inclusionary, intersectional feminist.

6. My go-to film when I'm feeling sad is the high school cross-dressing soccer comedy She's The Man. It's not great cinema, granted, but it makes me very happy. I wish I could say my movie taste is more highbrow when I'm not miserable, but that would be a massive lie.

7. I have a weird aversion to tension: I can't watch anything vaguely scary or even something that's just dramatically tense. As a result, a lot of popular TV shows are out. Midsomer Murders is about as tense as I can handle. Strangely, tension in a book is fine.

8. If I could only eat one food for the rest of my life? Easy: pizza.

9. My partner and I are childless by choice. I love working with kids, I just don't want any of our own. I wrote a bit about this here.

10. My mum is a lesbian; she came out when I was 15.