Leicester Pride 2025
my life
London
I went to London and had a wonderful time, which I was very surprised about because it’s been a terrible week.
Tourists were literally queuing up to take pictures with the red phone boxes.
Big Ben, the London Eye and the South Bank is my favourite part of London.
The seagulls may look peaceful but we saw them getting into an animated fight over an eel plucked from the Thames.
We were in London to see The Hunchback of Notre Dame in concert, HOND being my favorite Disney film and the songs being among the most electrifying I’ve ever heard. Saw the actors entering the theater dressed as monks:
It was an amazing show. HUGE standing ovation at the end.
Pictures from the Leicester trans rights protest
Here’s me!
And here’s a video I took and now can’t upload to anywhere else because it’s too big:
It’s a lovely day at the Cleethorpes boating lake, and you are a horrible goose
Actually, him and his small army of goose friends weren’t horrible at all. They were very nice.
Life things
I don’t write in this journal quite as much anymore because I went back to my paper journal for a bit. I hadn’t written in it since 2014. It was nice to see it again. (It’s a VERY thick folder.)
My mental health has not been great since the job loss but to be honest I think the antipsychotics I’m on aren’t helping either. I just feel so utterly unmotivated all the time, and my attention span is shot. I can barely focus on anything longer than five minutes. I spend a lot of time on Twitter and it leaves me in utter and complete despair. The world is awful.
I asked for an autism assessment and they sent me the forms to get a child assessed, twice, which makes me feel just greaaaaat.
Went to Bradgate Park
Met a peacock! Isn’t he beautiful?
Saw a random piece of rusty machinery sitting in a field looking abandoned.
And encountered some wild Nature.
Berries
Recently we discovered that the tree in the front garden is actually a cherry tree!
I’m so pleased! And in addition to that, we have blackberries and strawberries coming up!
Lost my second job
I spent ten years with that company. TEN YEARS and all I got was a message in my inbox saying “We regret to inform your your contract has been terminated.” TEN YEARS. Everyone else was fired too, because we’re worth nothing to them. TEN YEARS of work. I can’t get over it. I’m so fucking angry and depressed.
Bluebells and trees
I had a very bad mental health time this weekend (for once, actually not my fault) but a walk in the bluebells of Linslade Wood actually helped a great deal. They looked and smelled so nice.
Here’s a vast tree that many people have carved their names (or someone else’s names) into. I was almost tempted to do the same thing myself but I didn’t have a sharp object, and I’m not sure I could bring myself to vandalize a tree.
