I heard you talking, Mom and Dad, While I was fast asleep. (Well, really I was wide awake, But didn’t make a peep.) You said I’d be too short, too scared, That when I woke I’d be In charge of carrying the bags – Just coats and Mom and me. The next day came and … Continue reading Space Mountain
If I think back to being small, I remember liking two things above all else: Disney and reading. I liked other stuff too, of course: beanbags, Angel Delight and Jim Davidson's Generation Game, to name a few. But Disney and reading always came out top. This is me, havin' a good old read in bed … Continue reading #DisneyBookWeek: Making reading magical
The other day, I was running down the stairs at work and my shoe fell off. Like, one second it was there, the next I had walked out of it and left it on a step. I won’t lie to you: it was quite an embarrassing time for me, partly because I did an alarmed … Continue reading TAKING LIFE ADVICE FROM A SNAIL
When I was six I heard there was a place Like nowhere, like nothing. And four went strolling, hand in hand: Through pinks and golds and clouds and swells Of music, Smells and people, always. Crowds, not like before. The images are hazy But my favourite. When I was eleven I said I couldn’t. I … Continue reading WINDOWS AND DOORS
Last night I went to an event in London. I finished work, drove to the train station and jumped on a train, spent just over two hours in the capital and then came straight home again. On the journey there, I ate too many breadsticks and felt a bit sick, then thought a Milky Way … Continue reading The terrifying art of self-belief
What were your favourite parts of being 14? I myself enjoyed Monday nights, because that was when my friends and I hit up the local youth club. The adults who ran it had painstakingly graffitied the walls, because kids love graffiti, and from 7-9pm every Monday I would sit on bean bags and talk about … Continue reading HOW TO BE A POPULAR GIRL IN 2004
YOU GUYS, THE SUN IS OUT. The sky is blue and it's sort-of-warm and the palm tree I told you about is waving its leaves around like it lives in Spain. Even my palm tree is excited. I can tell it wants an ice cream. But generally it prefers sorbet, and its favourite flavour is … Continue reading THESE ARE NOT JUST HOVERFLIES
HELLO FRIENDS. A while back I said I might write about my cat, but the other day I realised I have not mentioned him, as of yet. I feel like it is important to tell you that this cat isn’t actually alive anymore, and I don’t mean that in a morbid way but really because … Continue reading MR. TIGGS THE CAT
I charge my electric toothbrush There's not much that makes me feel like more of a failure at adult life than my toothbrush running out of juice, mid-use. HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO ILL-PREPARED?? I switch it off and on again a few times as if it's my mum's computer and then make an … Continue reading THINGS I DO TO FEEL LIKE MY LIFE ISN’T A MESS
Today I have no energy to do anything, largely because I keep sniffing and sneezing and my back aches and I’m just really Not Very Well. I’ve done that thing where you keep using the same tissue for hours on end in an ‘am I lazy or just the least wasteful person ever’ kind of … Continue reading STILL ILL, SAY CHEESE
