Consumerism

“I would wear them all the time,” I thought as my thumb hovered over the ‘add to cart’ button of a pair of £99 hot pink recycled cotton joggers to match a £124 hot pink recycled cotton hoodie. “I’d feel more pulled together, less scruffy,” I reasoned as…

As we head towards week five of lockdown in the UK, conversation is turning to what we’re all going to do when everything is ‘back to normal’. It’s been the subject of call-ins on the radio, posts on Instagram and threads on Twitter. In lots of ways it’s really comforting…

I’ve been a little quiet on here over the past few months. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I launched this website with the intention of expanding my writing career and it worked! Since I re-designed and relaunched the…

I pitched this (or something along these lines) in January just after the study came out and it didn’t get picked up. I then kept thinking about it but didn’t really do anything with the information. Maybe I forgot I…

Last week I was at an award ceremony. I did not win the award I was nominated for but lucky for you I’m not here to cry about it. As I sat at my table, sweating in a 40-year-old dress…

You’re with a friend in a bar and a friend of theirs, unknown to you, comes to say hello. They sit down and join you. You chat, the three of you, and it’s all lovely and jovial and perfectly fun…