Category: Now

I don’t know if it’s because the weather’s been so utterly shit recently, or because it’s just been so very, very, LONG since the first rushed scurry to lockdown began at the end of March, but this week has been one of the worst so far for me, mood-wise....

Last Saturday night, I watched a streamed screening of Nora Ephron’s play “Love, Loss and What I Wore”. Adapted from Ilene Beckerman’s 1995 book of the same name, the play is told in a series of monologues from 5 women, who weave stories of their lives around particular beloved...

Recently, I decided that I wanted two exterior walls at our house to be painted white. Not even two walls, actually: one and a half. It didn’t strike me as a particularly complicated or arduous job. I thought about doing it myself, but the tricky issue of ladders reared...

And that thing is a list of things I am currently, brattishly, really sad about. It’s v. selfish and uncool to be sad about these things during a worldwide pandemic, and most of the time I do try to count my blessings a bit, but right now it’s Friday...

First off, it’s important to emphasise how much I loved Normal People, the book. It was Sally Rooney’s second book and I’d so adored Conversations with Friends (those eagerly awaited late night emails! the extramarital tension on both sides! Frances’ sense of not knowing who she is without the...