There is a scene in The Handmaid’s Tale when June is hiding in what used to be a busy newsroom. Amongst her many finds strewn across desks, including pictures of journalists’ families and hastily abandoned mugs of dried coffee she finds a DVD of Friends. For a moment June allows ...
Your moods eschew the constancy and comfort of my familiar, lazy days spent under the warmth of a perennial sun. Instead you offer yourself in winks and seductive head tilts; a ray of sun briefly and gloriously highlighting a green patch of tender grass, bending softly under the push of a ...
I could tell you a few things about my last decade but I simply don’t have the wherewithal and I strongly suspect no one else does either. I will simply say that as we head into 2020, I plan to adopt the Go Philosophy at every opportunity. Get up and go, let it go, go […]
A friend of mine with three kids once said that if she heard the song “Let It Go” one more time she would pierce her eyes with an icicle. You know, for added dramatic effect. “They have it on ALL THE TIME,” she said through gritted teeth. I concurred and nodded politely, ...
Ok so this is gonna sound a bit creepy but I like to watch. I walk onto the train, grab a seat _ there are benefits to being at the start/end of the tube line _ and ready myself for the show. The Victoria line is my happy place. Sure it can get crowded, hot and […]
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s Christmas. Time to be grateful and acknowledge the gifts we already have in our lives and all that jazz. Some gifts in the parental life, you’ll agree, just keep on giving. Like getting kids dressed in the morning. “The Suckometer is ...
Dear readers, brace yourselves. This is a long post but there was no way around it. When life’s plans change drastically you can either spend the rest of your days mourning your original path or you can remap the journey but there are no shortcuts for that and no pretty summaries ...
Franklin, I don’t know much about you. In fact I know nothing about you. After all I only spent 30 minutes next to you as we waited for an ambulance to take you to A&E, and I never saw you again. You were lying on the ground in a busy high street when I first […]
This could be a post about going on a first long distance plane travel with a tantrumy 3 year-old but why would I want to give you acid reflux and nightmares? I’m not gonna do that to you. You’ve all been there and if you haven’t, DON’T. Sit back, relax and ...
Confession time: I have never used false lashes and I wouldn’t have the faintest clue where to begin with them. In the off chance that I ever take the plunge I am 100% certain I would look like a drag queen on steroids and at least one of the lashes would quickly slip down my […]
