Stuff that Happened-Volume 2

Volume one of ‘Stuff that Happened’ was published in 2017, it was a collection of Autobiographical comic ages about events that happened in 2013-2014 . This new Graphic Novel picks up the threads around four years later and takes the form of a diary covering the year 2018. In the days before Covid19 and the massive changes that the pandemic brought, I was enjoying weekend trips, life in the highlands, working at her pottery studio and adventures with her animals and family.

This book started as a travel diary when I had and overwhelming ‘mid-life crisis’ style impulse to do some travelling. I went to Austria on a working break to assist a lively family at their homestead and ceramics studio for ten days. Upon return from this trip, the diary continued. A compulsion to make sense out of a life woven with many threads.

Volume 2 covers some difficult life changes, menopause, mental health, family stuff, trauma and recovery, chronic and acute health issues, including hospital admissions. The seasons come and go in the remote West Highland village where we live, with partner, poultry, pets, garden and pottery form the backdrop to a slowing down and middle aged autobiographical chronological, hastily scribbled during moments in-between all the ‘stuff that happened’.

Volume 2 and 1 of Stuff that Happened are available directly from me . email pottery@balnacra.com
or the publisher Markosia UK. or from Amazon.