Diary of a Nail Tech

A cottage found me - a fifteenth-century dwelling with crooked beams, witch marks, and alchemical symbols carved into its walls.A house that had lived through the Dissolution, the Reformation, and cen...

11 Nov 202510min

In this entry, The Snake Scales, The Nail Tech descends into the underworld — or rather, a Camberwell cellar — to repair the skin of a giant serpent sculpture.What begins as a simple act of restoratio...

10 Nov 20258min

In this ascent, the mountain isn’t made of rock or ice — it’s made of memory.A journey that began with a talk by Ben Fogle and became an inner pilgrimage spanning years, dreams, synchronicities, and l...

9 Nov 202512min

In this entry, The Nail Tech returns to a lifelong dream — her grandmother’s house in flames — she traces how that fire became a map for her life. What once felt like destruction revealed itself as de...

8 Nov 20259min

In this diary entry, The Nail Tech opens the door — literally — to two Jehovah’s Witnesses and a far older conversation about belief, blood, and the body.What unfolds isn’t an argument, but an invitat...

7 Nov 202511min

From the folded notes of childhood to the love letters that never found their way to a postbox, this entry traces a lifetime of ink and longing.The Nail Tech reflects on the sacred act of writing — ho...

6 Nov 202511min

In this entry, The Nail Tech traces the art of listening to life itself — through misdirection, through silence, through the maps others draw for us.A story about making space, collecting signs, and l...

5 Nov 202511min

What if the dragon was never meant to be slain? In this entry, The Nail Tech meets her own Dragon — not in myth, but in the rain. A story of fire, freedom, and the fierce grace that comes when we stop...

4 Nov 202511min