So it’s over. I’ve left. But not without a bit of a bash and a bang. One of my lovely workmates arranged a night out at the Queen of Hoxton with the Social Athletics Club – they came along and organised a round-robin table tennis tournament for us, complete with scoresheets, plastic visors, and medals. … Continue reading »
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All change please, all change
It was a warm indian summer, the end of September, and a week before my 28th birthday, when I moved to London. I had a month’s worth of work with a company called Northstar, whose offices were at Kings Cross. I didn’t realise when I was packing up to catch the train, that I would … Continue reading »
Resolve (or the lack thereof)
I never make New Year’s resolutions. Anecdote and experience both make it clear that they’re impossible to keep. They also tend to be impossible or unachievable goals. I don’t need to make resolutions because the past few years my general aims have always been the same: 1. Lose half a stone 2. Pay off my … Continue reading »
IWD guest post: The importance of motherhood
My lovely mummy makes another appearance! I wrote last year as a guest on this subject, about the continuing struggle of women across the world to be educated, treated fairly and allowed to be free to make life choices. I also celebrated the freedom we have in this country, bought by the determination of women … Continue reading »
There were ten in the bed and the little one said…
Pyjama parties and sleepovers. I’ve still not fully grown out of them, even though I’m decidedly 30. They’re not normally planned – impromptu stopovers at the end of a night out are most frequent, but whenever we have multiple guests staying, inevitably, we share rooms and beds. It’s not sordid, we’re friends and it’s all … Continue reading »
Lads don’t make passes at girls who wear glasses
This week I got an earful from one of my colleagues at work who can’t understand why I don’t wear my glasses. The answer is very simple. I’m vain. But then, according to the Daily Mail, 7.5 million other women are exactly the same as me. So I’m assuming I’m in fairly good company. Paul … Continue reading »
The ‘extra’ things that make us human (Wandsworth Road)
‘We are also beings who take in more than we can easily process from the world around us; we know more than we realise, and that helps us to become self-questioning persons who are always aware things could be different. ‘We learn this as children through fantasy and play; we keep it alive as adults … Continue reading »
Festivities
As the Venga Boys once sang, ‘We like to party. We like, we like to party.’ Especially when partying means an excuse to dress up and look pretty. I got out my party dress and GHDs. And then a pair of tights, since it started snowing heavily and there was no way I was going … Continue reading »
The M1
On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the first section of the London to Leeds Motorway, more commonly known as the M1, I woke up at 4.45am to travel its length. I was on a job to the Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford and we had to be there by 11am with a large … Continue reading »
4: Top Gun
I got sent to Italy on a job for work, flying to Pisa for an international car launch. Me, with no motoring knowledge at all, and a group of men, some well-known, who have built their careers around writing about cars. You couldn’t have dropped me in the middle of a more masculine event to … Continue reading »
