Good Enough

Last year, while CC and I were sharing close quarters in a VW van, we got chatting one night about whether our expectations of men in relationships were unreasonably high. Should we settle for someone who is good enough? According to Lori Gottlieb, yes, we should. In 2007, she wrote an article for The Atlantic … Continue reading »

Ten years

Traditionally, this is the time of year when you reflect on the past and voice your hopes, aspirations and resolutions for the future. I’m not really very good at it and never make New Year’s Resolutions. This morning I was sitting, drifting off into the recesses of my mind when I should have been concentrating … Continue reading »

Notes from a road trip: part three

‘Anne and Henrietta, finding themselves the earliest of the party the next morning, agreed to stroll down to the sea before breakfast. They went out to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted. They praised the … Continue reading »

Notes from a road trip: part one

Novel references: 1 – Black Beauty. All those wild horses had the theme music stuck in my head… Shower facilities: 2/10 – large oily black hand prints on the tiles meant it was impossible to forget we were showering in the men’s toilets in a service station Self-timer photos taken: 1 Food and drinks consumed … Continue reading »

Notes from a road trip: intro

Everyone has dreams and ambitions. Some of them are realistic, some of them are not. Ever since I was about 15 years old I have wanted to own my own VW campervan, ideally split screen, with the notion that owning such a vehicle would give me the freedom of the road, and that I would … Continue reading »

and finally… Thirty (part four)

Well this should be the last post about turning thirty, but who knows? It’s hard to stop writing every day when you’ve got into the swing of doing it for 101 days (ish). Maybe I just won’t stop… But more on that another time. So far: I celebrated my birthday three days before it happened. … Continue reading »

Thirty (part two)

Dear PastMe, Hello you! It was such a surprise to hear from you – long time, no see! Grey hair! You have absolutely no idea. In six years time you’ll realise that pulling out the odd stray grey is now no longer an option and you will have to resort to dying your hair. So … Continue reading »

Thirty (part one)

There are a lot of things to say about turning thirty so I’m going to split it into parts. Here’s part one. When I was 24 I wrote an e-mail to myself via a website called FutureMe. Once it’s written and sent you can’t edit it and this afternoon it arrived. Reading it is slightly … Continue reading »

0: rubbish at maths…

‘…this could be mathematically embarrassing.’ June 25, Me and the Girl from Clapham It seems that I’m rubbish at maths. Because I’m not going to turn 30 until day -1 (i.e. tomorrow), rather than on day 0 like I should have done had I worked this out correctly. I could blame the girl who got … Continue reading »

2: party

Parties can be fraught with potential doom. Will we have enough drinks to offer people? What is the right amount of food to offer? Will anyone come? Are there other people with cooler parties happening on the same night that will trump mine? Still, it’s not often you turn 30 so I braved it, bought … Continue reading »