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Defiance

It takes courage to face any serious disease, but what is unique about Juliet is the bravery that she showed to stand up to the sexist and paternalistic assumptions of her health care professionals about her breast cancer treatment. Her surgeon eventually agreed to perform her second, symmetrising and empowering, mastectomy eighteen months after the first

Putting our breast foot forward

Finding joy in adversity is one of the traits that I admire about Juliet. She didn’t let breast cancer define her, she reinvented herself as a flower gardener, advocate and bill board model.

Viva la vulva: why we need to talk about women’s genitalia

Why don’t we use the right terminology for our intimate areas when talking to friends, family or even medical professionals? I can’t even type the word Vulva without triggering a content warning, which is ridiculous. After all I can say elbow or shin, so what’s the difference?

Muzzled

Everyone deserves to be heard. Don’t let your voice be suppressed.

Ancient Arboretum

We’ve already lost 2.5% of our ancient woodlands and are amongst the worst biodiverse nations in the globe. Let’s protect what we have left.

Going, Going, Gone

We have lost 72% of the Arctic Ice since satellite records began and far more since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Let’s leave something for the Polar Bears.

How does our garden grow?

What would you include if you were capturing your garden in a drawing? Would you just focus on flowers, or would you include insects whether you liked them or not?

Winter Approaches

From books like the Faraway tree to Alice in Wonderland, mushrooms brought a world of magic and delight to my life.

A Stitch in Time?

As I was darning and embellishing this birch bark, I kept noticing more and more holes. The more I stitched, the more I found. Which made me think about the plight of our planet. Every scientific study is finding more problems caused by humanity from the warming of oceans, to species extinction to plastic pollution. Continue reading “A Stitch in Time?”

Flood Warning

Barra, Arwen, Evert, Christoph, Francis, Bella, Aden; these are just some of the storms that have caused millions of pounds worth of damage to property, severe disruption to businesses, destruction of wildlife habitat not to mention loss of life in the last three years.