About

This website, or blog, or whatever we want to call it is written for fun.

It is an unfocused mess of personal blogs, thoughts on books, sometimes things I’ve watched or played, and hodgepodge of things I have learned (probably a lot about my menstrual cycle, soz). I dream that over time it will all form into something that might make a kind of sense… maybe.

I have a full-time job and plenty of general life stuff and far too many hobbies already, which means I don’t have as much time as maybe I’d like for blogging. I blog as and when I can and have learned slowly to be less precious about things like typos and abandoned any idea of a schedule.

My posts will absolutely be riddled with typos. Most things I post will be my first draft! Sometimes I’ll go back and edit after I posted something, sometimes I’ll never notice!

And that’s ok, because this is my personal website and I can do what I want 🙂
(I’m telling this to myself, not to you!).

Here are some answers to some imaginary questions I’m sure you’re dying to ask!

Who are you?

My name is Alice and I have lived all my life in England. There are a few things about me that may or may not be relevant:

• I am a cisgender woman passing from from my mid to late 30s.
• I am a hardcore introvert.
• I am prone to anxiety, especially social anxiety.
• I love to work on anything creative, watch TV, listen to podcasts and read.
• I love to “Google” and learn new things that I promptly forget.
• I am a homeowner and n00b gardener.
• I am child-free, but I am obsessed with my two cats.

Why are you writing this?

Writing is something that I have periodically returned to my whole life. I used to write a blog for fun in my 20s but gave it up when life got busier. I’ve also made a few (very) short-lived attempts to write novels.

I also miss learning. I used to enjoy researching and writing up essays in my university days, I miss that. I don’t know what I will write here but I’m excited to see what comes out.

I also have a frustratingly poor memory for retaining new, interesting information so this is also an experiment to see if fully processing what I read so I can write about it will help!

I like that this website is like my digital scrapbook.

I also finally came off hormonal birth control and my brain feels like its started working again, so I kind of want to know what it can actually do without the fog.

Why did you choose the name The Wallflower Digest?

Wallflower: (noun) Someone with an introverted personality type (or social anxiety) who will usually distance themselves from the crowd and actively avoid being in the limelight.

I’ve always felt like a ‘wallflower’ – I don’t stand out in a crowd, but most of the time that suits me as I am also extremely uncomfortable with attention! I looked up the definition and it fits who I am and the community I’d like to find.

Digest: (noun) a compilation or summary of information.

I know this website will be a mess of different topics. I also liked the idea that I’m digesting my experience and the things I learn, the regurgitating my findings back to you, my audience, like a mother bird… beautiful yet disgusting imagery.

And, honestly, this was the best name I came up with that wasn’t already taken!

Contact

As above I am keeping this blog purely for fun. I am not interested in any sponsored content and affiliate programmes, and I also don’t take requests for book reviews or read advanced reader copies (ARC) of books for review.

If I feel like I have to write something for this blog it would not be fun! I just want to do what I want to do.

I also don’t like dealing with solicitous emails, so please don’t email me about these things! (Although the people that do that I’m sure won’t be reading this, as most of the time it is very obvious they’ve never looked at my blog!)

If you want to get in touch for a friendly chitchat you can leave a comment on one of my posts, leave a message in the guestbook or find me on Mastodon or Goodreads.