The Creased Pages

There are so many things we take for granted in life. Clean running water. Having the freedom to make our own decisions in life. The deliciousness of the skin on KFC chicken! Very rarely do we actually stop to think about what it would be like without these things. There is one particular luxury I think we should dedicate more of our attention to: the library. It's possible that some people may not realise quite how lucky we are to have libraries dotted all over the country for us to make use of at our leisure.

The Story Corner is now live! I mentioned yesterday that I'd be looking for a good way to share my stories with you, and now, I have found one! I did originally try to set up a page on this blog where I could put my stories, but it wouldn't have worked very well, and they would have been a little hidden away. So, instead, I have given them their own blog space, called The Story Corner !

I'm fully aware that the posts on this blog haven't exactly been consistent - I haven't set myself a schedule to know when it's time to write a new post; and the choice of subject matter has been more random than a cheerleading banana, pole dancing to a Jedward song in the middle of a rugby field full of ice cream. Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with randomness in some contexts. Okay, a banana in a cheerleader's outfit might be going a little over the top, but in terms of a blog being written by a girl in her late teens, who has had so little inspiration for a long time and who is only just regaining some kind of order to her life, random is good. Thanks to the months mainly spent either job hunting in the local towns or at home, job hunting online, my mind went into a kind of zombified, autopilot state, where I was doing the same thing every single day for so long that I lost my spark. But, I wou...