I realise as I write this that I’m extremely lucky to be able to be this picky. I know this a privileged position to be in, but bear with me. I find Christmas really tough, for no other reason that I really struggle for what I want for presents. I’m fortunate enough that if I …
Category: Opinion
Women’s Fashion – Part 1
I’ve deliberately not posted too much about the pandemic or about lockdown, since I think we’re all pretty much sick of it. However, I have been lucky enough to visit the National Gallery a couple of times (more on that later) and one recent trip, I stopped on the way home for a glass of …
Hate Following and Social Media
I’m fairly active on my social media, I post less than I used to, but I still like to check in what everyone else doing, send likes, comments, that kind of thing. One thing I am horribly guilty of is ‘hate following’. I follow a couple of people I really don’t like very much and …
Petty Revenge and Infidelity
So we had started tentatively creeping back into the office to work, not because we needed to, more because we wanted to get out and see other humans that we used to spend so much time with in a physical capacity. Somehow the conversation got round to infidelity and what we’d do if we thought …
Front Gardens and Poverty
A lot of people in my neighbourhood make a big deal of their front gardens, which is really nice, because you’re essentially doing it for other people’s pleasure of seeing your nice garden. People rarely sit and admire their front gardens, least of all sit in them for pleasure. However, I’ve seen it happen a …
Microwaves
I want to say microwaves really boil my piss, but they don’t. Firstly, because I’ve never tried and secondly, because they probably wouldn’t do it anyway. I was quite young, probably under 10 years old when my mum got her first microwave. I say it was hers, we weren’t allowed to use it as kids …
The rise of the ‘Stay-cation’
We all knew about the word ‘stay-cation’ previous to us having to cancel our fancy foreign holidays this year, but I’m getting super annoyed with people misusing the word ‘Stay-cation’. It does not mean a ‘holiday in the UK’, it means staying at home. In your own home. This is either for the purposes of …
Pornstar Martinis are not all that…
Controversial food opinion and a hill on which I’m prepared to die. Pornstar Martinis are not all that. I keep seeing adverts on line for ‘Bottomless Pornstar Martini Brunch’ and ‘Pornstar Martini Tree’ – an elaborate bit of ironmongery that holds 6 glasses which will undoubtedly get spilled on its journey from the bar to …
Pronouncing Words
This is something that has annoyed me many times in the past, and something of which I’ve also been a victim. Reading words, understanding or not understanding – gaining that understanding and context, but not knowing how to pronounce the word. And let’s face it who wasn’t surprised by the word, ‘hyperbole’? Don’t lie. A …
I don’t share food
This is a true story, although I can’t pinpoint the exact date it happened. My niece and nephew were really young, and my dad has passed away, so post 2008, but almost certainly no later than 2010. There was family pub outing. Me, mum, my sister, her husband and kids, and my sister’s in laws. …
Jaynage 