It's happened. I've untangled the wooly mess of forgotten, bobbly jumpers congregating at the bottom of my wardrobe, I've enlisted another blanket for bedtime, and I've stuffed a bin bag up the chimney to exclude drafts. This week, I also made my own batch of chicken soup, wore gloves four mornings in a row, and binge ate porridge. Yep, it's official - autumn...

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1 | "Oh you live in Tooting? I heard you can get a really good curry there..." 2 | "Is there a Chicken Cottage near yours then?" 3 | "Sorry I can't make it to your house party. I looked it up on Citymapper and I'd need to change bus three times to get home from Hackney, or pay £60 for an Uber." 4...

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Oh the tube. That glorious, sticky metal cylinder that similarly mesmerises and aggravates me every single day of my working week. On the one hand, I'm constantly fascinated by the sophisticated nature of the system: we're under the actual ground; we're travelling fast; we can get from one side of London to the other in 30 mins! On the other hand, I'm typically...

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Mother's Day without a mum. Now there's a sentence I never thought I would be saying! Reality, and the trajectory of life has altered so dramatically since I wrote this post last June, that I really felt it was time for some good old fashioned writer's therapy. If you've had enough of me penning my thoughts and experiences of grief, then just look...

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My Mum's funeral roses As I well know, grief is a long and difficult journey - and one full of questions. There's no right or wrong way to grieve, all we know is that we must do it in order to progress. There's no manual, there's no guidance, you just let your emotions come and do as you do. The results? Every single...

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"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools just because they have to say something." Nowadays, people talk a lot of sh... No, seriously. Notice how many teenagers use words that you don't even understand anymore, or how many abbreviations, compounds and strange words have been created in recent years ("selfie", anyone?) Well frankly, I'm annoyed - and a little confused....

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