We’ve been in our new place for a couple of months now and memories of waiting in the rain for buses, 45minute commutes and the screaming kids across the street are beginning to fade. We’ve made numerous trips to Argos and Woolies (ever the classiset group of housemates), carried flat pack furniture on […]
It’s not yet Halloween but I keep getting hit by wafts of the Chritsmas spirit. I find myself in conversations about how, despite the good weather lasting until mid-October, it is almost definetly bailey’s season now (Will and I took a vote, bailey’s won); how soon there will be gingerbread lattes in starbucks (soon!); […]
Working where I do its rare that more than a day goes past without spotting an MP who is in the public eye, admittedly sometimes it’s a public eye that is looking teh other way. I regularly walk up the stairs to my office rather than share the lift with William Hague, who seems […]
Congratulating Will and Simon on their 10K run on Sunday, I was asked by one of the runners if she could borrow my phone.
We were stood outside a cafe in Hyde Park, which was packed with a mix of runners, their supporters and Sunday brunchers and the girl was weraing one of […]
There was frost on the ground as I walked through Regent’s Park the other morning. The joggers have switched shorts for tracksuits and the occasional scarf. The rain we didn’t have all summer has returned with a vengeance. Its beginning to get dark when I leave work and the clocks haven’t even […]
This is a question of etiquette I’ve never quite managed to master - what is the correct way to say goodbye to people as an adult?
When we were children this was never a problem, the thought that there should be physical contact between you and your playmate was inconceivable - you just waved to them […]