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Aslan is on the move! Post-winter plans, and the execution thereof
WINTER IS ALMOST OVER! SAINTS BE BLOODY WELL PRAISED! I can’t be the only one who constantly talks myself out of everything. I might be lying in bed going “Oh God, take your love of refined sugars for...
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Trying to find a witty but appropriate headline for a blog about a homeless...
It’s a cliché that you must learn something valuable from volunteering. As though, rather than something you do to help or to fill your spare time, it’s Lucy’s cordial, healing you and making you feel...
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The rise of the girl gamer
In 2010 I wrote a feature for GamesMaster about the then-future new Tomb Raider reboot which has just come out – I was genuinely blown away. Partly because the new Lara Croft looked like a person,...
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It’s hard the Shard stays mainly in the clard
I’ve wanted to go up to the top of The Shard for ages – or at least, ever since I stopped worrying that something was going to crash into it and destroy SE1. So when I got a call asking if I’d like a...
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Mourning someone you never met
Two incredible women have died this year, both young, both of cancer. I never meet either of them, but through their blogs, Twitter and the sheer force of their personalities and achievements I felt...
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“Oh my God, YES!” recipes
This weekend has not ended according to plan. I woke up on Sunday feeling rotten, a few hours before friends I hadn’t seen in ages were coming for lunch. Given I’d cooked everything already and wasn’t...
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Latitude, with all of your ladies you are spoiling us
A cheery email announcing Latitude Festival‘s first line-up has just come a-pinging into my inbox. Here we go! Here’s the line-up. Let’s have a look at it and have vivid flashbacks to festivals we may...
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A story for you, written quickly
Today I have accomplished the followingly seemingly impossible tasks Obtaining tickets for Punchdrunk’s new show despite only remembering they were on sale 50 minutes after they started Getting...
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A story for you: Honey
“Do you remember the first time I said I love you?” She leaned over and rested her head on her arms, smiling at him. “Un?” He was half-asleep of course, she shouldn’t be trying to get any reaction out...
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The saga of Cat Brown: mastering how to get in things and out of things
Since it transpired that Ambridge wasn’t going to keel over and die immediately from her heart condition (probably thanks to the vast sums I wrenched out of my credit card and waved at the vet), I have...
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The saga of Cat Brown 4: I have literally broken my cat
The last few weeks have seen the breakage or the loss of a frankly ridiculous amount of my things, to the point that my mother looked at me with genuine concern on Easter Monday and asked if I was...
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*Does jazz hands for a good five minutes, then sings*
I went to the David Bowie exhibition at the V&A on Monday. It was…fine. It certainly perked up when Annabel spotted a visitor wearing non-ironic lederhosen, but for the most part it was nice...
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‘Inpats’ and a brilliant new project
For the last couple of months, I have been working on a wonderful project at work, called A Postcard from the UK. It’s aimed at people 25-45 who are thinking of moving to work in the UK, and as a...
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The best news I have had all day
*puts head between knees, tries desperately to calm breathing* OH MY GOD IT’S A 3DS SEQUEL TO A LINK TO THE PAST! Annabel is not picking up her phone, so I will continue to ring it until she screams...
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We live in a digital age – that doesn’t mean we stop being human
I am a feminist. I believe in equality for women and men and think that women should be able to go about their business how they choose without being bothered or shamed, cut, hit or raped, or snidely...
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Volkswagen’s tall woman ad: actually brilliant
“I like your tallness columns,” said my friend Scott, namer of this blog and avuncular uncle of the internet. “What do you think of the new tall lady dating car advert?” I heaved a sigh that fell...
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Running like a girl
Many’s the time that I’ve said a book has changed my life. I just never thought one would change the way I think about running. I never thought I’d love running because I never thought I was capable....
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The saga of Cat Brown 5: agrophobic, addicted to beds and plastic
Ambridge has become immortalised! From this: To this! Thanks to Cethan Leahy. It’s an accurate portrait, because Ambridge is fulfilling the destiny of someone who sleeps 26 hours a day by becoming a...
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Write Club goes to Canadamerica!
At the end of June, Elizabeth and I are going to Canada and New England! On a cruise! This is a joy for many reasons. 1) I have never been to either. I have been dying to. I was actually planning an...
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Dreamy times at Totleigh Barton *insert custard pun about Devon here*
I didn’t really like my 30th birthday for Reasons, none of which actually had to do with turning 30. Once I realised you don’t burst into flames and life continues pretty much as usual, that was all...
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