Archive - Things We Don't Talk About (But I Do)

#23 Remembering a friend

Joy and sorrow in Morocco, dear David, and a reminder of the important stuff in life

Sep 15 •

June 2024

I finally got to go to rehab

My weekend inside a £40k-a-week clinic in the Alps and a plethora of recommendations

Jun 16 •

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

Jun 2 •

April 2024

#21 The truth about being a freelance journalist

The good, the bad and the ugly

Apr 28 •

Some Substacks I've been enjoying

And you may like too!

Apr 21 •

March 2024

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

Mar 24 •

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?

Mar 10 •

February 2024

Things I enjoyed this week

Making do and mending, a brilliant film and dipping my toes back into the dating pool

Feb 25 •

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

Feb 11 •

Beating the blues by fleeing London, swimming in the sea, becoming the face of ‘perma singles’ etc

A catch up and some lolz

Feb 4 •

January 2024

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)

Jan 14 •

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

Jan 7 •

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