Jem – UK blogger

When I was, ooh… 17 years old (give or take) I wrote a “dirty” poem for the man I thought I was in love with.…

I plonked my wibbly wobbly stretch-marked belly (maybe NSFW, features underboob) on Instagram last night. It came off the back of a conversation with a gorgeous,…

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)…