The storyline puts women very much as the forefront, but remains subtle in its feminist message. It shows us how women, and their friendships, can overcome any adversity and indeed come out stronger. It shows what happens when women pull together and it guides us to that message without hitting us over the head with it.
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I've been on a journey, for nearly two years now.
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Two years ago, I started the menopause - about 15 years before I expected to if it had been natural, which affects around 5% of women. I had no choice. But one benefit, I had thought would be never having to have a period again.
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I am currently in the middle of what might have previously been called a nervous breakdown. I have faced some life situation adversities in the last few years that have collectively triggered a major episode of anxiety disorder for me.
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I'm embarking on an escape. I need to leave the claustrophobia of London and the South East and feel some gentle freedom in the green and pleasant fields outside the anchor of the M25.
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It's been the music of the Indigo Girls especially that has played a large part in helping me reconnect and re-identify with parts of myself I thought I had lost. Parts of myself that existed before all the bad stuff happened. It has been wonderful. Their music, some of it around 30 years old is still as touching, meaningful, important and revolutionary as it ever was.
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I remember my first L Fest in 2013 and watching the amazing poet and author Jackie Kay perform on the arts stage. She has always been a role model of mine. I thought, one day I would like to be on this stage performing to the L fest crowd.
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Rosie Wilby's new book Is Monogamy Dead (released 3 August 2017 by Accent Press) explores some of the biggest questions about love in modern times in a smart, accessible, humorous, compassionate way.
Read moreOne of the things that triggers my anxiety is that I start to have an existential crisis when think about all the words I'll never get to read or write, the music I'll never get to hear, the cultures and landscapes I won't experience, the food I won't taste or the art I won't see or paint.
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Many of my "exes" have merged so seamlessly into wonderful nurturing friendships, that I don't need to dwell on the fact we were once lovers.
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I always knew this day would come, but for many years I feared it would come before I was ready.
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I've decided to rename this blog The First Day, because I been thinking a lot about new beginnings. Each day is the First Day of the rest of your life, and no matter what happens yesterday or the day before we can wake up every morning with the chance to start again.
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The adventure begins with not being able to find the entrance. It's one of those "in the know" scenarios, as it's not signpsoted where to park or access the main entrance to the Rio Chillar hike. It's less than ten minutes from the coastal town of Nerja.
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I've stayed at Bambu before but this is my first time as a solo traveller. I knew it would be the perfect spot to flex my solo travelling muscles though, as the warm welcome from the hosts (despite getting lost on the drive by around 30 minutes) and other guests immediately put me at ease.
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I am super excited to announce the FREE release of #ShesInLondon - the first UK based LBQ web series.
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