• Favourites,  Lifestyle

    Why I am leaving WordPress/Started a Substack

    Hello stranger. It’s been a long time since I wrote a post on here and felt I owed you an update since 2021/22. I now no long work in my local library and looking actively for another volunteer position local. I have decided this will sadly be my last post on this blog, however you will be able to keep reading my content already posted and archives. Also just incase you want to keep in touch via reading my work online, I have created recently an educational and journalism based Stubstack account. I didn’t come to this conclusion lightly but I decided a Stubstack account is capable, in the long…

  • Favourites,  The Library

    Library Volunteering: 1 YEAR ON.

    As you might be able to tell from the title I have now been a library volunteer locally for over a year and what a year its been. I have had my ups and downs but overall helping out has been a good experience & I aim to carry on for another year… Meeting new people In a library, it is impossible to go a shift without seeing and greeting new people. They are either regular members of the library or new-comers. Sometimes you bump into people you know outside the library and start a conversation and get distracted. I love chatting to members about books and how their life is…