Anyway. Have decided to start an email newsletter to share with friends, family, and anyone else who wants to subscribe (free obviously!).
Even if no one reads it, at least it’s a chance to share my thoughts in a less truncated and constrained form than on Twitter!
Am planning to use this forum to let off steam, to share stuff I think relevant/important, and to get stuff out there that would otherwise be endlessly ricocheting around inside my head.
I need an outlet!
Covid confinement means, like so many people, I barely see anyone these days outside immediate family. Much as I love them (and luckily we have a mostly harmonious relationship), the shrunken social circle does feel claustrophobic, and sometime very lonely.
I miss friends playing music together/singing, sharing laughs and jokes in person (as opposed to online/Zoom or on the phone), hugs, dancing, sharing food and drinks, and I miss actually seeing other people in the flesh (no I don’t mean naked), and (vanity vanity) I miss being seen.
I miss partying, small scale (the days of raves and clubs are far behind me!), but also I just miss the way being with other people makes me feel connected, human, real and alive.
Never been the best at spending heaps of time alone.
Twitter (I’m very active on there) allows me to engage with a much wider network, and I've met some amazing people on there, but it's so restrictive sticking to the 280 character limit, plus there's extreme censorship of feminist thought.
Here I can be freeeeeee!
But I will place some limits on my writing - nothing private or personal about friends or family that could be intrusive or annoying for anyone, I promise.
I don’t know what I’ll write about. Covid loneliness and isolation, and fears for humanity as well as for my own future and the future of my family, for sure.
Also books I’m reading, my beloved SciFi!, programmes I’m watching, politics, feminism, gender identity ideology (grrrr), racism, Trump, Brexit, the abandonment of women by the political Left, extreme weather/climate change, grandkids, ageing and mortality, hypochondria vs post-menopausal health complaints (fascinating I hear you say), make-up (I love it!), my obsessive compulsive tendencies, oh….and food and wine!
I’ll try to keep it short and snappy.
xx