Hello I've seen that you prescribed yourself some time at the seaside and followed through with that and I'm just curious, has it cured the ailments or just sort of relocated them and would you recommend this course of action for others? Asking for a friend. Any notes would be helpful. Thanks and kind regards.

There is no surefire solution to life’s ills, and I had the shitty misfortune to move here and then get a brand new chronic illness 8-12 weeks after moving, which has got worse and worse and now it is Not Good, BUT:

- I was sick on and off for periods when I lived in London and I also went through lockdowns alone, and it was truly, truly rubbish. I tried to get in the habit of going for local walks and there was a lot of trying to walk past people’s bins and it was just a lot of high density PEOPLE without much SPACE, and there wasn’t a specific moment where I was like, WOW, I am tired of London (and feel tired of life) but yeah, I was DONE. I’d lived there for ages and I stopped loving living there. I was ready for a change.  

- So yeah, I took myself off across the country and to the sea, and now I’ve been ill in new environments, but it’s considerably better being sick here than sick trapped where I was before. My breathing is better (less pollution), mental health is better (feel less trapped), before I got too sick to walk about much it was just nicer to walk about and better views and the SEA, and there’s something incredible about just watching the waves for dealing with SO MUCH stuff. Unfortunately I got sick before I got a chance to meet many people/do much stuff so it hasn’t been the smoothest transition. 

- So! Ups and downs but if I’m going to be sick anywhere I’d rather be sick by the sea than anywhere else, I feel like there’s space to breathe and a whole horizon to look at, and the Victorians were on to something with prescribing the sea for ailments. (Medicine also helps). 

THINGS WE SHOULD BRING BACK:

that thing where rich people would adopt pet artists and pay for them to just sort of hang out and be the weirdest goddamn person alive in their guest room

being sent to the seaside for your health

guillotine

A White Winter Hymnal kind of day.

phone calls my detested

shoutsout to the band Sea Power & DIsco Elysium and very specifically Cleaning Out the Rooms for making me bawl my eyes out like 6 times in the last 2 days

i have become a frail victorian woman (finally got sick)

in totally predictable turn of events I finished my semester, got through hell travel experience to somewhere very cool I was excited to see, and immediately came down with the flu so hard I am stuck in bed 👍

YUHUUUUU GUESS WHO JUST MANAGED TO CATCH ANOTHER QUEER ENGLISH BOOK IN THE LOCAL LIBRARY

"Le novità nelle lingue originali", I love you, girl 💕💕💕

No one

My Mind high on crack at 3 am: NANI MO KA MOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

thinking of neon//bytes. hope the author is still writing that story bc it was very interesting.

What the fuck are these?

Found them on the oregon coast floating in the water and stuck to a sand dollar

What are they?

Marine biologists help me!!!

sunbathing in the tropics

every time i see a picture of logan holding a fish i lose my grip a little bit more. today i found ones i hadn’t seen before and Oh Baby

where can I unsubscribe from this month, please and thank you

Light blue (affectionately)

this is really funny because i live on an island and regularly go to the beach LMAO

~jay

fall by the seaside; a season filled with love and warmth amidst the cooling breeze of summer.