This is what you’ll find here:

• Blog – This is basically just an internet cupboard. It has no particular theme or reason to exist other than giving me somewhere to put my thoughts and things that I find.
• Magpies – I’m writing a story with a magpie-human creature in it, and I’m looking for anything magpie-related that might be helpful.
• Day Job – I work in charity communications, and I love it; all the pleasure of using your intelligence and creativity without the soul-blackening side effects of selling people things they don’t need.
• Links – Lots of time spent online means I have amassed a tangled treasure trove of interesting links and resources on communications, London, feminism, fairytales and many shades of geekery.
• Music – I don’t make it, but I love it and listen to it a lot. Here are some things you can listen to, and places you might like to go for more.

About Me

I’m Sarah, a geeky ex-country girl turned city dweller, die-hard charity shopper and cake fancier living in Leytonstone and working as Communications and New Media Manager at Womankind Worldwide. I’m also a trustee for amazing charity Education for Choice. If you’d like to know more about my work, have a look at my LinkedIn profile.

You’ll see that this site isn’t updated all that often, and these days that’s mostly because I’m blogging over on the excellent Bad Reputation blog about pop culture and feminism.

Things I like: robots, gender, the uncanny, democratic socialism, biscuits, indiepop, comics, cities, forests, fairytales and making things.

Why Applejackson?

Well, it’s a hybrid of my surname and my favourite My Little Pony (the tomboy, natch)