The day the government announced that all schools in the UK were to be shut because of the coronavirus was for me, as I’m sure it was for many other people, the starting pistol on a massive drinkathon. I mean fucking hell. Is this really happening? It can’t be, can it? Is it? Is it really… is this really happening?… View Post
So here we are, in this new place. Although you and I are still here, in this old place. But I find that in that new place, which is also here but not specifically here, there are new patterns. The most significant one is that where once we used to be a get-out-in-the-morning family, we are now a go-out-in-the-afternoon family. This… View Post
This is really the embodiment of the true fact that a burger – any burger – is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s not really about the burger, it’s about the combination of dill, gherkin, French’s mustard, mayo and tomato ketchup. And lettuce. It will make it all totally delicious – and when I say delicious what I… View Post
I don’t know about your children, but my children don’t really want to eat potatoes. Chips, yes – potatoes? No. Kitty will eat mash and baked potatoes but Sam will only tolerate chips and during this… thing … I’d like to find a way of getting them both to eat potatoes in the same format. And I think the answer… View Post
How are we all, then? I woke up pretty depressed, I don’t mind confessing. Even though all things considered I have it incredibly easy. I’ve only got two children at home, we’ve got a garden, the sun in shining, we are still in employment. But I woke up this morning and for the first time since the children were really… View Post
Well…. GOD, guys. Just… god. Selfishly, I am just praying for our school to stay open. I am outwardly subscribing to the view that if you shut the schools a) all the kids will just meet up elsewhere and exchange germs anyway b) people who cannot take time off work to look after their kids will send their children to… View Post
Thank you to Lauren McQuistin for this excellent guest post. She runs the @BrutalRecovery account on Instagram, which is very much worth a follow. On the 6th of March 2018 when I was 25 years old, I was ready after years of dangerous and irrepressible drinking to truly commit to sobriety. Being in my twenties, female, and a graduate… View Post
I am writing about this because three women I know, all in their 40s, have recently started taking collagen supplements and the effect has been extremely noticeable. It was one of those things where I saw them for the first time in a while and I said: “My god what have you done to your face, you look amazing!” Shortly… View Post
This is a novel by Jeanine Cummings about a middle-class woman from Acapulco in Mexico fleeing a drug cartel king pin with her young son, to America. You have most likely heard of it recently because of the massive controversy it has caused in America – critics say it’s an exploitative story about 2D “Latin” characters that Cummings has no… View Post