Really, I’m getting married today. But technically/legally, we did it on Thursday. I didn’t think it would mean that much, the legal bit. It’s just a formality, we didn’t get to make up our own vows, we only invited four people. But I was wrong. The ceremony was beautiful, and much more moving than I’d […]
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Facing Friday – Wedding Planning Hyperdrive
The wedding is next week. BLOODY HELL. Next. Week. There is a merry crapload to do, and it is exciting and fun and knackering. If I’m honest, I’ve always kind of liked the show week/exam season feeling of “aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah I have SO much to do!”. Even though I moan about it all over the shop, […]
Facing Friday – Queen of the Textiles
I read True Grit by Charles Portis. Oooof. What a brilliant book. It tells, all from her perpective, the story of Mattie, a fourteen year old girl who launches a pursuit of the man who killed her father. It’s a Western, I suppose. Mattie is wonderful and the writing is spare and tight and perfect. […]
Facing Friday – Mermaid Chewbacca
I read For the first time this year, I didn’t finish a book this week! Booooo. I’m like 20 pages away from the end of True Grit though – I’ll tell you about it next week (I like it). I watched The entire first season of Parks and Rec, about 5 years after everyone else. […]
Facing Friday – Darlings and Dishwashers
Another week full of me running around whining about how busy I am. When you break it down though, I’ve been mainly flouncing about and going for dinner. I read The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman (which CANNOT be the given name of a steampunk author. Surely?), which is a fantasy/adventure romp featuring a librarian, […]
Weight Loss Is Not An Anti-Feminist Act
About two years ago, I decided to lose weight. Nothing unusual in this. I have decided to lose weight about once a year since I’ve been – what? Seven, maybe? I can’t even remember. But this time, rather than launching myself wholeheartedly into a punishing regime (5:2, Cabbage Soup, Slimfast, Atkins… that one I made […]
Facing Friday – Starmen
What a terrible week to be a British national treasure, eh? RIP Bowie and Rickman. Your contribution to UK culture was massive, in both cases. It is a funny thing, to see, and to participate in, the grieving of someone you’ve never met. Sometimes comforting, sometimes slightly stifling somehow. Often annoying. I can’t help thinking, […]
Facing Friday – Back to Work
Hello there, and welcome to a brand new year! Hopes all shiny and fresh, the smell of new pencils and good intentions heavy in the air… Horrible, isn’t it? As part of a new year’s resolution to blog more/generally pull my thumb out of my arse and become a Big Deal Writer I am cataloguing […]
Blogmas Day 17 – This Is Not A Review Of The Year
Last year lots of “big” things happened to me. I bought a house, I took a show to Edinburgh, I lost three and a half stone, I got engaged, I got a pet, I got a promotion. Loads of things to put on facebook, straightforward things that people can like and comment “Yay!! Congrats :D” […]
Blogmas Day 16 – The Christmas Tag
I have 19 minutes to write this if it is going up today. My blood flows slowly, as if it has been replaced by brie and baileys. I have spent the last week drunk or eating carbs or eating carbs dipped in booze (panetonne mulled wine hell yeah!!) and my brain feels like it is […]