Bad hair, great hair
I don't know about you, but I have been SO READY for the hairdressers to reopen. I had a hair appointment booked in January, but then the third lockdown was announced and it got cancelled. And then as a challenge to myself, I refused to cut or dye it til I got back in...
Flash Fridays: Cherry Blossoms
It's time for another Flash Friday!This week (or month…or bi-monthly? I really need to check how frequent this competition is) to celebrate the arrival of Spring, the theme was Cherry Blossoms. I loooooove cherry blossoms - it's my dream to go to Japan and experience...
Flash Fridays: Gold
This week's Flash Friday entry is slightly different - instead of 350 words, it's only 100. If I thought 350 words wasn't a lot to work with, then 100 words is a whole different game. But you know what, I love a writing challenge and it's restrictions like this that...
More credit, please
First things first - I think I've finally figured out how to add comments/navigation to posts, so all being well, those things SHOULD show up at the bottom of all my blog posts from now on. If they don't...I'm just gonna throw the computer out of the window and live a...
Flash Fridays: Dawn (part 2)
Welcome to a new ‘Flash Friday’ post! The idea behind this series is simple – I’ve been entering flash fiction contests on a website called ‘voice.club’ in an effort to both regain my writing confidence and to meet fellow writers. You can check out their regular...
Learning a new skill
So my husband's new work iPad arrived last night and I decided to have a play around. We got the iPad to help us with our design work that we do (both for clients and my husband's business), so my husband also bought the Procreate app. We use the Affinity suite on the...
Times like these
If you've ever read my previous blog, you'll know that I suffer from anxiety - anything you can think to worry about, you can bet I've already thought and obsessed about it. Social anxiety, work anxiety, raising-a-child anxiety, and today's topic - time anxiety. For...
Feeling Sunny
Just a quick update with some of the things I've accomplished this week - this post isn't supposed to be a brag, this is me trying to 1) keep myself accountable for what I'm doing and 2) when I inevitably slip back into my anxiety-fuelled...
New book smell
Lately I've reading a lot of non-fiction - mainly gardening books/magazines (hello Gardener's World subscription!), autobiographies (Becoming by Michelle Obama) and reading around topics that interest me (Quiet by Susan Cain - HELLO FELLOW INTROVERTS/HIGHLY SENSITIVE...
Flash Fridays: Dawn
Welcome to my first ever 'Flash Friday' post! The idea behind this series is simple - I've been entering flash fiction contests on a website called 'voice.club' in an effort to both regain my writing confidence and to meet fellow writers. You can check out their...
A proper hello
I'm back! Chaos still reigns – last night was the first time in the whole 2.5 years since Little Terror came into the world that I actually wanted a glass of wine after he went to bed from sheer stress/having a meltdown (both me and him). And this is coming...
Welcome
Hi there - and welcome to my brand new author website! In case you haven't guessed, I'm Zena, and the aim of this website is to bring you all my latest writing updates, life musings, and photos of cake/dogs. Right now, I'm desperately trying to figure out how to use...