You can always spot the Hackney tourist. In my experience, they are always the ones willingly queueing at The Good Egg, happy to pay £10 for what is essentially expensive organic eggs, maybe avocado and bread – a meal you could make for a respectable £4 if you got the ingredients from Ridley Road market.
Read MoreTo afford to continue renting into our 70s, and without a pension to draw on, we will need to continue working until the day we die - we’ll never retire. It’s grim, but it’s our reality and I think there are others in the same boat as us.
Read MoreIt’s more than just an easy punchline for food related jokes, it’s a serious, multifaceted, incurable illness which takes a huge amount of physical and mental energy to manage.
Read MoreTwo weeks into the new academic year, I came home from work, and he was gone. His stuff, him, everything. No warning, no notice, nothing.
Read MoreRegardless of ethnicity, many elderly people have suffered because of COVID 19, whether that be illness or the loneliness they have had to face.
Read More“I’ll find jobs that fit around being able to gig in the evening, and I’ll say “comedian” even if I earn my keep as a chef, or a baker. Existentialism teaches me that I create my own purpose, and define my own essence through the specific actions that I take”
Read MoreHi everyone. I’m Ramses, and I’m angry.
I should probably also say I’m trans, since that’s why I’ve got the microphone.
I’m Ramses, I’m trans, but I’m mainly angry.
Read MoreI’ve become used to checking my phone first thing in the morning and being inured to whatever bad news it has for me this time. But then, on 27th August I woke, checked my phone with sleepy eyes, and clicked on a Facebook notification. It told me that my friend C had died at just 35.
Read MoreTales about loos, bogs, shitters, throne rooms, crappers, khazi’s. Musings on the littlest room in the house and public conveniences.
Read MoreI have been in remission for 2 years and 4 months. I got Covid and survived and yes I'm still Vegan. I don't know how long Lupus will allow me to continue cheating, but for now there is peace.
Read MoreVegan and cruelty-free beauty is trendier than it’s ever been. The vegan cosmetics industry is predicted to be worth $20.8 billion by 2025, with millennials acting as the driving force, according to a report by Grand View Research. Yet despite these statistics, an alarmingly large group of us still don’t go vegan or cruelty-free when it comes to pampering ourselves. But why is this?
Read MoreThe last twenty-nine years have been rough. So why am I so nervous to turn 30? Surely, I should be ready to turn my back on the last decade, knowing that I’m coming out of it in the best place I have ever been, for both my mental and physical health. Yet I am terrified that I’ll wake up on October 5th, a failure.
Read MoreYou don’t tell him how you can’t understand why you ‘forgot’ to revise for your GCSEs last summer, so only got 4 A’s when you were told you would get at least 9. That most days you physically freeze when the bus to college comes; your arm refuses to raise to stop the bus, so you watch it drive past your stop and disappear around the corner, then dejectedly walk home and watch Fresh Prince of Bel Air VHS’s all day, feeling really bad because you fucked up again. You care deep down, although your lecturers think you are a lost cause and there is talk of kicking you out of college.
Read MoreOne thing that also increased over August, apart from customers and the layers of hand sanitizer on my hands, was the amount of catcalling myself and fellow waitresses faced.
Read MoreTwelve years after the pain started it turned out that I had a hiatal hernia, which is basically when your stomach bulges back against your oesophagus. Your oesophagus has a small opening that should close off to stop food and stomach acid etc to stop it leaking back into your oesophageal tract. Mine wasn’t doing that and my stomach acid was basically burning me.
Read MoreArrogant. Self-absorbed. Superior to others. Unique than others. Lacking in empathy. Manipulative. Patronising. Selfish. Exploitative. Demanding. An excessive need for admiration. These are a few of the traits that Narcissistic individuals display. Even though it may not seem obvious as physical injuries, the consequences of being involved with a narcissist – regardless of whether they’re your partner, parent or family member – can be traumatic.
Read MoreA few weeks before the pandemic rooted itself in the UK, I had returned home from Cape Town. I’ve been considering a particularly pressing question: is there a correlation between the aesthetics of wealth and the ability to connect to community in these two Trojan cities?
Read MoreAt the time of the appointment at the fertility clinic, I felt I had no symptoms of the menopause. My periods were regular; I wasn’t having any hot flashes or night sweats. Although I was experiencing a little breast tenderness and my emotions were quick to change, I hadn’t associated this with the menopause at the time.
Read MoreThe first time I went to Notting Hill Carnival I was 21, which - as a Londoner - you could say was pretty late in the day. I didn’t really know what to expect; all I knew was that 2007 was the year my friends and I were going to get involved. From that first carnival I was hooked.
Read MoreThat afternoon we lifted the curtains of our worlds to each other, as we danced around an imaginary fire, embracing our femininity. I could almost hear the music as we slowly circled together, lifting our hips to a silent rhythm, twisting our hands in the air as we moved around the tiny room.
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