Jem – UK blogger

With recent posts over here all a bit glum and gloomy, I thought I’d make September (or what’s left of it..!) a bit more chipper,…

A tribute to Robert ‘Bobby’ Addison, as read out at his service today. It would be… incongruous to stand here and tell you all what…

Content warning: suicide, mental health, addiction On Wednesday I sat down and mentally compiled a tribute to my brother, whilst assembling an IKEA table. There’s…

Wow, that title is a bit of a mouthful. OK, so let me decipher: you can customise WordPress excerpts to add a “read more” link…

I was on my break during the Tuesday morning shift at Shropshire Cat Rescue last week when a lady brought in a tiny black kitten.…

I’ve been trying to justify buying a new laptop for nearly 2 years. Despite it being the only thing that allows me to earn an…

I posted this picture to instagram at the end of May: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jem 'jemjabella' Turner 🏳️‍🌈 (@strongmum_)…

With the recent announcement over on my professional blog that I’m now celebrating 5 years of working for myself as a freelance developer, it feels…

(This post doesn’t have an image attached to it because the search for “thinspiration” to demonstrate what I am getting at turned up some fucking…

I say one year on… it’s actually 15 months on, but it’s taken me so long to finish writing this post (as with all posts)…

I have spent a large part of the past few weeks jumping from one ‘chaos moment’ to another (as per usual) and I was sat…

I recently supported a short instagram campaign by the UK Fitness Bloggers highlighting the dangers of so called ‘detox teas’ and their call to use…