A few weeks ago I announced my unceremonious book-buying ban. I have a serious book-buying problem and often fear that my floors will cave in from stashing hundreds of books in the same room! But it’s now the season to
17-minute read I’d never paid much attention to who I’d end up with in life. As a child, I thought myself destined to be a vet with two kids and living in a house-that-definitely-doesn’t-exist-in-England with a white picket fence. As
This week, I finally experienced what feels like a ‘big break’. You know those Tweets that circulate asking (probably rhetorically) what you’ve achieved this year? I’d begun feeling negatively towards all of those because it hasn’t been the huge year
The whisper of the early leaf-fall. Hazy mornings, mist hovering just-so before your eyes. Sleepy, dusty light drifting through the curtains. Evenings drawing tighter, darker, closer. A brisk chill, knitted through your bones as you weather the will-it-won’t-it rainfall. The
