The Art of Letter Writing

In some ways, I’m a bit old-fashioned. As you already I have the hobbies of a 1950s housewife, but I am also quite old-fashioned when it comes to manners. This week I received not one, not two but THREE beautiful bunches of Get Well Soon flowers from Bloom and Wild, sent to me by various…

An interlude

Mama wasn’t here yesterday. I don’t like it when Mama goes away. But it was okay, because she came back. Mary, we’ve been through this. We said that I’d be doing the introduction. But the youngest goes first when Mama plays Monopoly. I’m the littlest — No. Mama told us you’ve got to listen to…

D&D, M&M and Me

As you may know, I’m kind of a nerd. I like Lego, comic books, and I play Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). It has been pointed out to me that playing D&D is a very on-brand™ thing for me to do, but in fact I’ve only been playing it for a couple of years. I wanted…

Smear Campaign

Confession time: I’ve always been a goody two shoes. I always told the truth. I never got in trouble. Well, there was that one time I called Tom Finlay (not his real name) a bastard for not letting me be part of the year 9 poker ring at school. But generally, I went to school…

Navigating the Lockdown labyrinth

So the UK is going in to another lockdown. And, yeah, it kinda sucks. But in the dystopian world we now live in, we have to do everything we can to protect the most vulnerable amongst us. I know lockdown is a scary prospect for all sorts of reasons, whether they be financial worries, health…