Hi Carol

I not been seeing you around Hive for so long?

I took a year long break to deal with some IRL stuff (My mum has lung cancer), and also for my own health reasons as well. I had to give up the ink well and hand it over to others to run, I just couldn't handle the amount of work it entails. Anyway, I've been back on hive for maybe three months now. Started by cataloguing all my hive fiction then posting some photography posts and some political ones as well 😂 then I did a month of poetry, started making digital art (you know me, I can turn my hand to anything creative). for the LMAC (Let's make a collage) competition... here's a good one called LMAC/Hive creative singularity.

Chronic illness continues to kick my ass a lot of the time, but I've been reading my poetry out live at poetry nights recently for the first time in a long time. I've been asked to collaborate with a musician, and also three people asked where they could buy my poetry collections, so I've got a lot of cataloguing work ahead of me to get all my hive poetry organised into themes etc so I can produce some paper books. Also thinking of entering a few mainstream competitions, so I need to get busy with those tasks 🙂

I hope you're well Carol.