Stripping laid bare

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 I’ve written a character who’s 28 years old. […]

The New Sixteen

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 to be life changing of course, but I’ve decided […]

Written on my face

{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 pinned it to my cork board. Dolly was dressed in […]

#diditmyselfdidnti

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 things I so desperately needed. By third world I […]

Shit loads of money

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 the West End to see Girl from the North Country. While […]

Raising Tiny

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 possessed as a child. She also really looks like her […]

The pen is mightier than the keyboard

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”. Along with “You smell amazing” and “You’re how old?!” it’s […]

Same Old Same Old

{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 majority of the world I found I […]

The Reeducation of Andrea Donovan

{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 we are all now WOKE. It pains me greatly […]

Rising of a new Mooncup

With the start of a new year comes a new moon and with a new moon comes the Mooncup. An incredibly tenuous, if not completely unrelatable, linking of January and a sanitary product but I’m sticking with it because I want to talk about the Mooncup. No, I NEED to talk about the Mooncup. First […]