Choosing Your Self

Choosing Your Self

How do you decide which version of yourself to be? Not just at any one time or on a particular occasion, but in general? There are a few reasons why ‘just be yourself’ is often completely useless advice, but for me one of the main things that springs to mind when I’m...
Getting Weddinged

Getting Weddinged

A beautiful princess gown, trailing flowers, an angelic chorus singing you down the aisle while friends and family wipe teary eyes. The stereotype suggests that, as a woman, I’ve spent my whole life planning the perfect wedding down to the smallest detail. Well, to...
Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale

Book Review: The Bear and the Nightingale

I haven’t tried writing a book review since A level English Lit (and if you think I’m going to tell you how long ago that was, you can think again pal), but I wanted to try it out. Fair warning: This review does contain plot spoilers right up to the end of...
A Love Letter to Captain Marvel

A Love Letter to Captain Marvel

When I saw the first trailer for Captain Marvel, my first reaction was not “Oh wow, I can’t wait!” It was more like “Kree? Really? They’re going to keep saying that with a straight face for the whole film?” In all honesty, I was feeling a little over the whole...
How to (Not) Fight About the Washing Up

How to (Not) Fight About the Washing Up

We’ve all seen it happen, in television or film if not in real life. The fight that starts with snide comments over some household chore, escalates into shouting and the hurling of unresolved and seemingly irrelevant past grievances, ends in one or both parties saying...