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Summer travel essentials
Oh god, here it comes again: the end of term... looming like an enormous brick wall, if brick walls were made from catering responsibilities and floppy teenagers.
This year I have insisted on two weeks in Pembrokeshire in Wales, because it...
My life is an illusion
take away my props and it all falls apart
The other week, I misread a text from my cleaner and I thought she had quit.
come to the Substack party
I simply assume that any party that invites me won’t be much good. Or that it is a scam. So despite being invited to parties given by Substack for its writers for a while, I have never been.
Then I dimly began to understand that these are...
jeans AUGH
I caught myself saying an actual prayer before trying on a pair of jeans two days ago. I had ordered them from Free People and had high hopes. They looked wonderful on the tall slender model and therefore would, doubtless, look wonderful on...
Bed linen
who TF do Piglet in Bed think they are
I brag to myself that I’m the sort of person who spends a lot of money on bedlinen. And indeed, there is a rotation of premium White Company threads on my bed.
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