Vegan and accessible: terre a terre in Brigthon
Paul and I went veggie for this issue of Hopezine and it was surprisingly good! Terre a Terre is a restaurant set within Brighton’s famous ‘Lanes’ that has a reputation for the best vegan and vegetarian food in the UK. Now, I was surprised Paul agreed to visit with me as he’s quite the carnivore! […]
Hopezine Editor Erica Crompton’s new medical memoir – out now!
★★★★★ The Mind Surfer is journalist Erica Crompton’s memoir, a collection of first-person prose and journalism that details exactly what psychosis is and how she learned to manage it in her late teens to mid-thirties. This book is aimed at all people, young or old, whose lives have been touched by psychosis: themselves, their loved ones and their […]
How fashion helps with my mental illness
Photo by Johnny Holden Living with a mental illness for two decades has not dampened ERICA CROMPTON’S desire to dress well. Here she explains how fashion helps her with managing her psychotic illness and staying comfy… Fashion boosts my self-esteem, helps me create an identity outside my diagnosis and I take great solace in my […]
Why I didn’t take medication for my anxiety by John Apples
I was 16 when I first experienced social anxiety. I was on a half empty train to London when it pulled up at the last stop and then, a tsunami of passengers spilled onto the train. I panicked as I got squeezed amongst the passengers and broke into a cold sweat that drenched my entire […]
A delightfully accessible day in York
As one of the UK’s biggest tourist destinations, Paul and I fiddled with chocolate buttons and ate like Fat Dan from Rate My Takeaway recently in York. For our stay we drove 20 miles North East of the city centre to Sandburn Hall Hotel which had the most sophisticated wetroom we’ve yet to encounter on […]
Sent to a newly chic Coventry
With its recent reign of City of Culture, Coventry has had a revamp. Think flat streets: the silver lining to a a rebuild after the World War II bombings. There’s chic retro restaurants and the viral sensation that is Binley Mega Chippy, too. We went along to see what it was all about. Our first […]
Soothing as the midnight stars
As the nights draw in once more, I’ve taken to stargazing after being dazzled by the perseid meteor shower last August and September. Don’t fret if you missed those shooting stars as there’s more ahead on 21st October and 22nd October: the Orionid Meteor shower or the Taurid meteor shower, also know as the ‘Halloween […]
“What soothes you?” asks Hopezine summer 2022
This pretty edition of summer 2022 Hopezine has been brought to you by students studying A-level photography at Stafford College. Its’ been inspired by Project Soothe, a citizen science project that urges participants to photograph what soothes them and to share this with others. Leah Greenaway-Lewis has been guest editor of this issue and shared […]
Stanley Clare’s setting sun is beautiful
One thing I find very soothing is watching the sun set. I’m very lucky as Ilive in a dark sky part of the country so there is no noticeable lightpollution to obscure the sun. One of the biggest draws for me to watchingthe sun set is that it is different every time, depending on the […]
Erica Crompton’s wild ponies on Dartmoor
On a recent trip to Devon my boyfriend Paul drove us to Dartmoor tosee if we could spot some of the wild ponies. We were in luck! Here’s apicture of the most gorgeous wild ponies and their foals that wediscovered there. Whether it’s my own cats or wild ponies, I find animalsincredibly soothing because there […]