I've been thinking a lot about strippers recently. Hear me out! I've started pole dancing. My current writing project involves a piece about a stripper. It's a monologue that includes pole dancing and is hopefully going to be performed one day. Not by myself, I might add, as...

04 June, 2018 /

At the time of writing this I am two weeks away from turning The Big Four Oh.  At the time of you reading this however I am a mere five days away from turning forty. Five days away from a life changing birthday. Well, it doesn't have...

21 May, 2018 /

{Jawline examples from 2009} The first time I ever heard about plastic surgery was in the early 90's when I found a picture of Dolly Parton in one of my Saturday magazines. I was so fascinated by the picture that I cut it out and...

24 April, 2018 /

I grew up with nothing. Literally nothing. Totally untrue of course but that's what my 'deprived' teenage brain told me. It told me that I was at a disadvantage in the, seemingly, third world country I was living in as I didn't have access to the...

09 April, 2018 /

Last week I had the privilege of going to the theatre twice. On Monday night I went with a friend to The Old Vic to see Fanny and Alexander and on Wednesday night I went with my work friends to the Noel Coward theatre in...

19 March, 2018 /

My niece looks like my brother. Sounds cute but she's actually my sisters daughter. I'm not saying she's currently resembling a nearly 42 year old man but, Tiny, as we like to call her, has the same heavy brow and cheeky smile that our brother...

08 March, 2018 /

As the process of buying a piece of jewellery, at the shop I work in, went from a handwritten receipt to a few taps on an Ipad I knew that I would never again hear those sweet words ~ “Oh haven’t you got beautiful handwriting”....

19 February, 2018 /

{Top L-R ~ Walk of shame Moscow, Rennes, JacquesMus, Caron Callahan. Bottom L-R ~ Simone Rocha, Caron Carahan, Rejina Pyo, Rachel Comey}   I recently executed an enormous Instagram cull and un followed about 400 people. Big news I know but this needs to be discussed.  Like the...

05 February, 2018 /

{clockwise from top left ~ Rupaul~Rupaul's drag race, She's gotta have it, Reni Eddo~ Lodge, Sasha Velour~Rupaul's drag race. Dear White people, Orange is the new black, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Underground}   The one good thing that came out of President T**** being elected is that...

22 January, 2018 /
Show more