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Substack housekeeping
There is a post about lip balm waiting for you over on Substack. Grab yourself a moving buddy and let’s go. Click this link to create an account at Substack, that’s all you need to do for now. Why Substack? Because WordPress has caused me unforgivable amounts of technical problems and I’m just sick of it. It also has formatting… View Post
Cargo pants 2022
God, I’m depressed. I’m in one of those vortexes created by sudden child-related anxiety, work doubts, lack of Vitamin D, being over 40, lack of exercise, the rain, the end of Christmas and therefore the loss of True Purpose. I’ve also had no domestic help since the start of December. I need to be careful what I say about this… View Post
Books for children
A thing I have noticed in conversations with some other parents about whether or not their children read is how much morality they, (the parents), probably unwittingly, attach to this. If your child reads it is a good child, if your child doesn’t read, it is – if not exactly bad, then somehow less good. It’s a bit like the… View Post
Christmas partywear
I’m going to come right out and say that the high street has made a right fucking pig’s ear of Christmas party wear this year. All we want, all we’re asking for, is 900 different kinds of black or silver dresses covered in sequins, or made of velvet with twinkly buttons. IS THIS SO HARD. Instead what we’ve got, what… View Post
Dear Husband…
…. or boyfriend, or wife, or girlfriend or partner. It’s that time of year again! My letter to your other half, whomsoever that may be, about what TF to get you for Christmas so that you do not end up with a set of knives, a pair of floral-patterned gardening gloves, (despite regularly claiming that you’re not interested in gardening,… View Post
Monika Blunder
Well I don’t know about you but I looked like total shit this morning. I couldn’t nod off last night, I can’t think why. It was definitely nothing to do with the fact that I got home from the movies at 10.30pm and then ate some cheese on toast and drank 1.5 glasses of white wine. I lay there in… View Post
You need a cape
If you’ve been looking at your winter outerwear recently and thought that it’s just so… sleevey… then consider a cape. I bought two last year, a short camel one and a longer dark blue one. Don’t leave! Hear me out. Really, really – I wouldn’t suggest this if I hadn’t thought about it hard. You won’t really look like you’re… View Post
Ted Lasso: why? (spoilers)
To Ted Lasso. I was recommended this comedy series, which is available to stream via Apple TV, by more than one person in the comments section and I sought it out. I arrived at it to find that it is hugely successful and has just won a hatful of awards and got some sort of unprecedented recommission. Coming late to… View Post
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