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I’ve taken the substack plunge
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#23 Remembering a friend
Joy and sorrow in Morocco, dear David, and a reminder of the important stuff in life
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I finally got to go to rehab
My weekend inside a £40k-a-week clinic in the Alps and a plethora of recommendations
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Turning 36 and books books books
Thoughts on sliding ever closer to middle age (someone more snappy than me dubbed it the 'millenopause') and books I've read lately
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#21 The truth about being a freelance journalist
The good, the bad and the ugly
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How to pitch a story
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Are your thirties the loneliest decade?
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The exhausting pursuit of your past hot girl self
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#23 Remembering a friend
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Some Substacks I've been enjoying
And you may like too!
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Spring Special! Is love in the air? Is writing about yourself cringe? Is everyone lonely?
Read on for my thoughts amid gratuitous pictures of blossom
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Greetings from a stranger's apartment in Berlin
Some thoughts on housesitting, the German capital, a painful to watch film and - do we all have to be content creators nowadays?
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Things I enjoyed this week
Making do and mending, a brilliant film and dipping my toes back into the dating pool
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The things we yearn for (probably) won't make us happy
Profound(ish) thoughts or the moans of a privileged brat... I'll leave it to you to decide
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Beating the blues by fleeing London, swimming in the sea, becoming the face of ‘perma singles’ etc
A catch up and some lolz
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The high priestess of cool herself is turning the big 5-0
Why are millennial women so obsessed with Kate Moss? (Spoiler: it's because she's the best)
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The exhausting pursuit of your past hot girl self
What it’s like to be haunted by the skinny minny body of your former years and how to break free from all that time-wasting, energy-sapping guff
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The pleasure of the dead days
Reflections on the year that was 2023 and my ins and outs for 2024
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Things We Don't Talk About (But I Do)
Things We Don't Talk About (But I Do)
Personal essays about the things we don't talk about - money, sex, medication, loneliness, recovery, friendship and more. Honest writing delivered to your inbox in prose as pretty as I can make it.
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