random asides

I asked my dad once “how do you know? You know? How do you know you love someone? How do you know you want to marry them?” (Back then, I…

The lovely folks over at Lenovo sent me this gigantic box yesterday. I love it when people get creative with their ideas around campaigns, and this is one I’ll certainly…

If you know me at all, you’ll know that I have a long history with sleep. Well, more correctly, a long history with not getting enough of it. For the record,…

This is not the first time this has happened. You came home the other day, having shrugged off another stupid attempt to annoy you. It had centred on your name.…

Dear Darling, I’m scared. I know I like you to think that nothing much scares me (and truth is, not much does), but there is something that absolutely petrifies me……

I’ve done quite a few of these before, so if you’re bored, you can read some of them here; here; here; here and here. I was tagged by my (yes, she’s mine!!!)…

I feel an intense pressure on myself (all self-created, I know and realise) to have some insightful thoughts on turning 35. Normally, ever year, I take a little time out…

Moving house is right up there on the stressor scale, and I really think it wigs me out way more than I let on. As you know, we moved towards…

Sweet child, the idea that you are turning ten leaves me breathless. Every parent says it, but it’s so true for me – I blinked and suddenly you’d morphed from…

I can judge the level of how well I know someone, and how well they know me, by the things they say about me, to me (and sometimes, not to…