Landlocked Mermaid

  Happy Hallowe'en my lovelies! May your day be the best kind of spooopy 🎃🎃🎃 Drop a comment below with who you are dressing up/have dressed up as ⤵⤵⤵ I was Miss Scarlett .

  I have nearly been at my job for a year now and I have yet to aimlessly ramble about it in a dedicated post. How rude of me. My official job title is Digital Content Copywriter, and I work for Overclockers UK. We sell some pretty hench gaming computers, hardware, and all the shiny things do with PCs. Learning all the bits and pieces was very brain consuming, as you may have noticed with my silence earlier in the year. I simply did not have enough brain left at the end of the day! Basically, what I do is write the product descriptions for the items we sell, detailing their unique features, what makes them good, and how they work. I do this for existing products pages which need a breath of new life in them - important SEO and keyword stuff, I assure you. I also get to write a lot of the content for new products dropping, which can be pretty nerve wracking but always hella exciting. Over the last six months or so, my role has developed to include writing regular blog articles and p...

  The week I got my new job, I also backed my very first Kickstarter. As a game where you take fish meeples and make aquariums, well I wasn't not going to back it. A couple weeks ago, it arrived! Now, I am going to share this beautiful game with you. Aqua Garden by uchibacoya The aim of the game is to create the best aquarium in town, using the available resources. It plays up to four, in addition to having a solo mode. (Always love a game with solo modes, because Human doesn't always want to play with me.) Over the course of three or four rounds, depending on how many players there are, you gather fish from the market or sea board and place them into your aquarium. At the end of the game these fish are worth different amounts of points which you tot up. Whoever has the most points, has the best aquarium. Winner, winner! There are more ways of gaining points, too. Placed by the central board, are four goal cards. If any one of your tanks meets the conditions set out on the goal...

  Last weekend was the Market Drayton 10K - a staple event in the family running calendar. Except this year, I made the executive decision for this to be my last hurrah. Having decided much earlier in the year that running was no longer for me, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to hang up my running shoes.Not that I can really call them "shoes" anymore, they are that falling apart! My relationship with running has always been that of a love-hate variety. Some days it would be easy and I would wonder why I did not run more. Then other days it would leave me crippled. I am not exaggerating here either, I have incredibly tight calves and some days the running would leave them rock solid. Which left me, unable to walk. Quite often this is how the 10K would leave me. Clearly, my body was trying to tell me something. I am not built for running. It hurts my calves, it hurts my back, it hurts my boobs. So, why do something I clearly don't enjoy? That's not to say I haven...