I’m a bit early posting this blog this year, but lately my brain cogs have already been turning about my plans for 2016! So it seems like a good a time as any really.
So what was great about 2015! Quite a lot as it turns out, but let’s start with the more ‘outer’ things such as..
Music!
Music still wasn’t a big thing for me this year, but it had a bigger place than it had last year. I went to a few gigs this year, both ones of people I never thought I’d get to see- Kathleen Hanna, as part of Julie Ruin. My review of that is here
I also went to see L7, but I didn’t write a review of that. I couldn’t really see much but it was amazing anyway!
I did go to a few local gigs again as well. I went to Village Green this year and we saw The Selector who were lots of fun! I didn’t buy much music, I did get Paolo Nutini’s album ‘Caustic Love’. I got so used to hearing some of his songs at work that I ended up quite liking it!
I did listen to the radio much more, but found I still kept coming back to music I know and love, and listened to rather a lot of Absolute 90’s. I then discovered Spotify, and listened to even more 90’s music…but I also listened to some new music that way, and one newer album I found by accident there that I really like was the debut from Sexwitch, which features Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes. Here’s one of the songs from it..
Books
I set myself a challenge on Goodreads this year to read 50 books…so far I have read 47….it could still happen!
Having a look through here are a few of my favourites (not neccessarily released this year as most of my reading material comes from the library)
Films and TV
The only film I saw at the cinema was ‘Suffragette’ which I saw with a few of the members of my women’s circle. I did really like it, although I did feel the ending was rather abrupt.
T.V wise, I can’t think of much that has stood out this year. The latest series of Doctor Who was a big disappointment I thought. The last ever series of Peep Show is on at the moment and that has been hilarious. Other than that, Russell Howard’s Good News is always great. The only new series I can think of which was quite good was ‘Humans’.
On Netflix I have mostly been enjoying ‘Orange is the New Black’.
Photos/Moments/Things I did in 2015
Did more poetry readings, I think I did 3 events this year- one at a tiny art gallery, one at my friend’s ‘ Soup’ event and at a Sundown Open Mic.
My Circle really picked up this year, our meet ups got much deeper, but the group also expanded from a regular maybe 4 people, to October’s meet up being the largest ever with about 10 people! And there is 40 people on the Facebook page, so every month there seems to be at least one new face 🙂
Had rather a lot of adventures this year which included: seeing Simon Amstell’s Stand Up show live, going to several protest marches- Million Women Rise, and 2 anti cuts protests (one in Manchester) and a very small one in Southend that was anti war. Going to Brighton for the vegan fair, going to Clacton, went to an animal sanctuary in Kent, went on a Tribal Goddess weekend
Received the Munay Ki rites
Completed my Supervisor training and managed a store for a day
Ran my first workshop which was about connecting with your inner child
had a chapter published in a book!
year 3 of attending Witchfest
did a creative writing workshop
and finally the most popular blogs I wrote this year…
- I’ll Think of You…a poem for my nan who sadly passed this year
- The Great Soup Unconference
- Witchfest 2015
- E.D.E.N 2015- Transformation
- Spring Equinox Freshness
Hayley Heals 