Victoria Jones

Video games and meaningful meaninglessness

I consider to be a blessing the psychological zoom-out that my health situation has afforded me.

Jun 9, 2025 • Victoria Jones

May 2025

Being part of the real world

I'm not going to blog incessantly about my health. Partly because that would be much too depressing, but also because I want to make the most of my time…

May 15, 2025 • Victoria Jones

April 2025

What is chemo like? Mental effects

Context for this post is here and here. This is the second post in my mini series about chemo!

Apr 27, 2025 • Victoria Jones

What is chemo like? Physical effects

For background, here was the post where I talked more broadly about my breast cancer diagnosis.

Apr 27, 2025 • Victoria Jones

Emerging, and mortality

On 10th December 2024 everything stopped - I was diagnosed with breast cancer aged 44.

Apr 24, 2025 • Victoria Jones

November 2024

Autumnal Englishness

On 8th November 2024 I went on another little nature jaunt to reconnect with my sense of physical place after leaving my fully remote job.

Nov 9, 2024 • Victoria Jones

October 2024

Reconnecting with the northern coast

After almost five years working for American software company Automattic out of my bedroom office, I took a voluntary redundancy offer at the start of…

Oct 19, 2024 • Victoria Jones

The North Land

I have written an acapella arrangement for three voices (SAT, or really AAT/B), a nostalgic song about Scotland based around the melody from the first…

Oct 3, 2024 • Victoria Jones

November 2021

Twenty Months Later

The last post I wrote here was called 'hiatus'...

Nov 20, 2021 • Victoria Jones

December 2020

Our wedding

We had a lockdown wedding in December 2020, at Judges Hotel, Kirklevington.

Dec 12, 2020 • Victoria Jones

August 2020

Then, Now and Always

Here’s my attempt to provide a singable English translation of the song “Je t’aimais, je t’aime et je t’aimerai” from Francis Cabrel’s 1994 album…

Aug 6, 2020 • Victoria Jones

Hiatus

So the changes hoped for in my first post on this new blog came to pass...

Aug 2, 2020 • Victoria Jones