I often claim as a defence mechanism against unwanted ridicule, humour and flashy flirtation that I “shall write this down in my diary”. It is my favourite line. It always gets a laugh. This diary I speak of however is of course metaphorical. To tell the truth, I have not physically kept a comprehensive handwritten [...]
I am the ripe old age of 22. I have permanent forehead wrinkles and a hybrid of psoriasis/eczema which relentlessly plagues my skin. I have a penchant for sugary PG Tips tea; vegan protein stir-fry and the ancient Greeks. I like swimming early in the morning; watching trashy tv in the twilight hours and somehow [...]
If you have ever had the pleasure of stumbling home to my house after a boozy night out; nipped in for a quick daytime coffee or are buzzing my gate so you can pick up what you left on my bedside table a few nights before; then you will know food is never on the [...]
Boys can be great. They can make you laugh until you have tears streaming down your cheeks and they can be as simultaneously sweet as that first cup of tea in the morning. They can buy you pints with charming smiles and stick their tongue down your throat in the middle of a bar with [...]
I have never been ‘good’ at Valentine's Day. When I was 8, I received my first V-Day card from a boy in my class called David. I hysterically cried, immediately ripped it up, shoved it in my red reading folder and disposed of it on the way home. Ice queen from the age of 8 [...]
