Haven't visited here for a while so thought I'd better bring everyone up to speed with what's been happening these past few months.

I flew to Melbourne in June to visit family and friends and decided to extend my stay here. I miss my BJDS - I only took Violet my Soom Uyoo with me - but I know they are being looked after and loved well by Arkady. I only had mobile broadband for the first few weeks I was here and haven't really been frequenting any of the BJD forums, so do let me know all the news!

I started work on Mai, my Fancyboots Liebchen earlier in the year, but she turned out to need extensive sanding so she's still in bits in her box and work will not resume on her until I return to London.

Despite being broke I am thinking more and more about getting a tattoo. There are several things I would like to get done, ivy, a unicorn, but I think the first piece will be a phoenix, symbolic of my ongoing recovery from fibromyalgia and depression.