Current Projects

A colourful painting of several faces in profile. Where the brain would be is a bright yellow light and the image of a brain on a lolourful gradient.

A Scanner's Life

My very own blog about building the Scanner Life of my dreams!

A colourful painting of several faces in profile. Where the brain would be is a bright yellow light and the image of a brain on a lolourful gradient.

Emotional Intelligence for Life

Learned EI, practiced EI, and now I'm teaching EI.

A colourful painting of several faces in profile. Where the brain would be is a bright yellow light and the image of a brain on a lolourful gradient.

Ethical Automations

Helping people sell their products to the perfect clients at the perfect time.

A circle with an M followed by the letter yrthe. A Dragon snakes through the letters.

Planet Myrthe

Fantasy novels and short stories set on Planet Myrthe.

a typographic made up of words like mind, feeling, belive etc in the shape of a brain

Mindset

Ever since I started training my brain, my life has gotten better every day.

The words Financial Independence are written in dark green, 3D. The image is framed by bank notes

Financial Independence

- Or, never having to work for a living again. Yes, please!

The logo: A leaf shaped like a D. A dodo has eaten a hole into it and looks through. An M.

The Dodo Munches

No sugar or processed foods for me anymore. Sharing my experience and recipes!

Two Ds in a Yin and Yang circle

The Dodo Designs

Mash-ups, vector drawings and "thank you" notes, all created in Affinity designer and photo. Now also on merch!

purple and grey leaves

Yoga

My favourite exercise for body and mind.

A button of the Portuguese flag.

Olá!

I'm learning Portuguese!

A view from a mountain

Trips in the Arrabida Nature Park

I have become a tour guide, taking people up mountains and along beaches.

A park in front of the sea. The Genre book club.

The Genre Book Club

My very own book club! We discuss one novel and it's genre once a month.

green letters and numbers on black background

Watch every Keanu Reeves movie

The title says it all. One of my favourite projects. So much fun!

Shelved Projects

A yin and yang on dark blue background. Inside the small circles are the symbol for HTML 5 and CSS3

Front End Development

HTML, CSS, Git, GitHub, Bootstrap, JavaScript... all the good stuff.

Blue writing in 3d: 'Good morning!', quoth the Quokka. On the right is an image of a Quokka (a small brown marsupial that looks like a large rat and lives on Rottnest Island, Australia). The Quokka smiles into the camera. The image has a dark blue frame.

61 x Art and Fun

In June and July 2022 I'll share a piece of art on Twitter every day!

purple and grey leaves

Posture

A two-month project so I'll finally sit up straight! May and June 2022.

abstract green and blue blotches

Painting

Acrylic paint, window colour and nail polish on canvas.

a mountain rage on the shore of a lake in Scotland at sunset

Culture Wise living

A blog filled with tips for successful intercultural communication.

a black and a purple and black striped scarf

Knitting a scarf. Or two.

I tried knitting for fun, relaxation and because I needed a new scarf.

words and phrases describing wordgroups, like nouns and adjectives; in different colours on black background

Teaching English

After getting my CELTA, I taught English online.

The letters PhD written over the Union Jack

Postgraduate Studies

First a MA in Gender and Media, then a PhD in Film and Media Studies.

Dark blue musical notes on lilac background.

Hosting a Radio Show

A bit about my stint at University Radio Falmer in Brighton.

sunset in Rotorua

New Zealand

Two islands in ten weeks. Exactly as much fun as it sounds!

a sunset in the outback in Western Australia

Australia

2 years of work, travel, sunburns, weird animals and amazing people.

green letters M.A. written over the image of a book shelf

University Degree

Magister Artium in English Literature.