Slip-ups in mind, I have learnt a few things and the best piece of advice I could give anyone attempting a drastic dietary change is to always plan ahead! Research alternatives! Read food labels! Or you’ll find yourself sitting on the kitchen floor stuffing your face with cheddar wondering how it all went so wrong.
Read MoreHaving a side hustle is the first step towards this, but it also gives you something to focus on outside of your full-time job. When I leave my office at 5pm, I leave all the stress, worry and problems of that job behind, and I come home to my side hustle. Its taught me that your job should be just that – a job, and not your whole life.
Read MoreMy Mum died very suddenly in January, 12 years ago. She went to the doctor on the Friday, got taken straight into hospital and died on the Monday. For years before that, I worried about how I would cope when she died, how I would be able to function in a world that didn’t contain her.
Read MoreAnalysing one’s passions is a bit like going for a job interview: from day-to-day your passions simmer under the surface of your life, present but unspoken, occasionally rising up and presenting themselves to the world in glorious, untamed manifestations of self-expressionism.
Read MoreNaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, a concept invented in 1999 and has since grown into a not-for-profit charitable organisation which helps communities in the USA with writing fluency and education. They host several events a year, the largest and most well-known of which is NaNoWriMo itself, in which participants are challenged to write a 50,000 word novel across the span of November.
Read MoreI thought it would be helpful to provide the couple with some potential career moves that would allow them to live a comfortable, yet modest, lifestyle and raise their son (seventh in line to the throne, no less) as best they can.
Read MoreI found myself really questioning if I was f-ing the whole experience up. Was I missing out on opportunities because I’d chosen to do things this way? Was I working too much? It’s not like I could afford not to.
Read MoreA few weeks ago, I turned 23 and was affronted by the mildly alarming thought that it had been exactly five years since my eighteenth birthday. At the age of eighteen, opportunity and possibility seemed limitless. My five-year plan contained as many bullet-points as an entire biography. Buy a house. Write a book. Have children. Get married. Start a business. Go in a hot air balloon. A whole lifetime squeezed into a regimentally scheduled half-decade.
Read MoreWhether it is perceived as a transformation or a tragedy or the beginning of a new journey, or sometimes even a liberation, the fact remains that Death is so mysterious and impenetrable that it's difficult to describe it adequately.
Read MoreI was called from next door where I’d been playing with my best friend, they were crowded around the end of the piano where the phone lived, a space opened up and I was enveloped inside it as the news was told. Dad was dead, drowned.
Read MoreAh, January. The grey, frayed no man’s land part of the year. It’s like a dejected child at the end of a party - bleary eyed, bloated and on a sugar crash. It is the Bounty of the months: slightly gristly and only enjoyed by psychopaths.
Read MoreOne of the most demeaning things that a woman in a Westernised society has to do is discreetly hide a tampon or sanitary towel in the sleeve of their shirt or the pocket of their trousers when on their period during working hours.
Read MoreThe only problem is that quite a few of the birth rate policies aren’t very funny. It would be nice to discuss increasing the birth rate without imagining an Atwoodian regime. This time, in the name of the nation, I’ve reinterpreted some government strategies for increasing birth rate to present some legitimate and well thought out alternatives.
Read MoreThe pressure to do well is everywhere - in magazines, on the TV, in emails - and with that pressure, there is cost. A cost that a lot of people can’t afford. So this year for your last minute Christmas presents, why not join me in spending less and making more?
Read MoreI have a confession. I hate Christmas so much this year that I involuntarily flipped the birdy and muttered “fuck you” at the fairy lights. Thank god the kids were in the living room watching Youtube.
Read MoreI ended up, unexpectedly, travelling solo across Southeast Asia this year. At first I was completely terrified. As I sat in Cairns airport in Australia about to fly to the Philippines on my own, part of me thought that I should just fly home. But thank god I didn’t..
Read MoreIf I had never orgasmed through penetrative sex, and none of my friends had either, and the internet was corroborating my story too, then HOW ON EARTH did every man in the world think his partner came during sex? In fact, how did EVERY woman think that she should cum during sex?!?!!
Read MoreMy oldest, Leo, is autistic; I am his registered carer. I haven’t come across many parents of autistic children admitting that parenting is boring, stifling and terrifying online. Apparently, we are all blessed with special children by God because we are special parents. We are stoical in our “suffering”.
Read MoreThe shorts are intelligent and go beyond the acknowledgement of our lack of representation, asking participants key questions to delve into the complexities of the black British identity in the media beyond misrepresentation.
Read MoreAs we lurch towards 2020, it seems that if aliens do indeed invade, there are far worse things on the horizon that should be feared. That is, of course, if that horizon isn’t already underwater. As the devil says in Angel Heart, ‘the future is not what it used to be’. We have exchanged one possible future for another, and this time there is a strictly no-returns policy.
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