Daphne Bennett

I just can’t keep track of the days during school holidays and struggle to come back here. After months with hardly any rain, the rain has come earlier than forecasted this morning. I hope it will rain for a while but at the same time I was hoping to use my annual leave to do…

1- Study: I finally received my grade on Monday. It is much better than I expected. I got a merit. I didn’t expect much as I only got 42/100 in my first essay, struggled too much because of a sudden change of plans and could not recover from the jetlag and travel in time. I…

C came back for roughly 10 days. It has been a bit of emotional roller-coaster. I am still in the thick of summer holiday and kids. Can’t concentrate. Can’t finish a book. Can’t complete a paragraph. We haven’t really done anything together and we still share our bed with our 6-year-old. Expectation and reality. Give…

Honestly, I have been talking to Copilot too much for life advice. I really have to stop. So I come back here and talk to myself instead. Last week, the old decking and the old shed were removed by Wally and his team. Now, the new decking is almost completed. It is the first time…

I was listening to Sideways as I was walking home with the dog this morning at 9am. David McGurk is a bank administrator by day and makes mini-figures in his free time. He has made more than 600 figures and collaborated with Abbey Road studios among many big names. Growing up in a poor family…

The eyesore of a shed is being disassembled and demolished after 4 years we have moved into this house. My driveway is crowded with a skip, a workman’s car and a work van with ladder on top. My own car is being exiled to the road side. It is very hard to work in the…

I wasn’t aware of who Jeanette Winterson was when I booked the bookshop event at Toppings & Company Booksellers in Edinburgh in Nov2025. I was staying in Edinburgh for a couple of nights. I was invited to a dinner and a tour around the Scottish Parliament and to attend the First Minister Question time. It…

I arrived at York station at 8;50pm for the 9:04pm train. It was 33c at 6 o’clock, still very warm but at least the sun was going down. As it was warm, a number of train services were delayed, including the one I was expecting. I was on Platform 5. Many were waiting for a…

I was very uncertain whether I should go to Revolution in York for dinner, as I didn’t know anyone there, and didn’t know enough to call myself a woman in tech. I even sent a message on LinkedIn to the organiser. They were predictably nice and told me it was the right kind of place…