No, I do not want to sleep with my male best friend. No, I do not want to date them either. No, I do not think we are destined to be together… This is not a rom com.
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We were lucky, we had a healthy baby. That baby is 6”3 and 21 years old now and he’s done a little experimenting of his own. He has (I suppose) been as honest with me as I was (ahem, highlights only) with my Mum. His stint was very short lived but he asked me questions, for advice, and I readily gave it.
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I don’t need to defend classical music: with streaming services and radio, accessibility to classical music is at its height. Cheap tickets also mean that live music is not reserved for the elite. However, as demonstrated by a rather strange recent article in The Guardian which claimed that classical music is elitist, the genre still falls on deaf ears.
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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.
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Having 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.
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My 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.
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Analysing 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.
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NaNoWriMo 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.
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I 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.
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I 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.
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I’d like you, reader, to bare in mind that I am giving my perspective here as a representative of those who have experienced disordered eating - feelings of guilt, shame and of greed all attributed to food, body image; to exercise.
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A 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.
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OK, so it’s almost here. That time of year when many of us start to look at what we want to change, improve or what we are determined we’re no longer going to put up with or tolerate in our lives. Our New Year’s Resolutions.
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Whether 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.
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I 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.
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Ah, 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.
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One 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.
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The 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.
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The 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?
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The Conservative party had 6 times as many social media adverts as Labour by the later days of the campaign, but I don’t think I saw a single one. Is it really any wonder we’re confused about what happened when we didn’t even see most of it?
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