It’s official: January 2020 was the longest January on record and I refuse to believe that it was only 31 days long. But even so, it’s given me time to read, so I guess I’m not really complaining. Especially because I reunited myself with my literary favourite, John Steinbeck. I started reading The Grapes of Wrath a few years…
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“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.” During the process of Googling around for inspiration to kick off my new year resolution piece, I stumbled across this quote by Anaïs Nin. Needless to…
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As you may or may not have noticed (depending on how much attention you pay), I haven’t written anything in more or less a whole two months. Despite the fact that I promised myself I would write far more regularly than this. It’s been playing on my mind a lot recently, as I see so…
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It’s time; a little book update has been long overdue, and the two books I’ve read recently deserve a little time in the limelight (small though it may be). My lovely new commute (by lovely, I mean it’s an hour shorter than it used to be) has reinvigorated both my motivation and energy for reading…
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So. I realised that I haven’t actually sat down and written a piece for my own personal enjoyment in literally two months. Without going into too much detail, the last couple of months have been full of change for me and I’m coming out the other side with a new outlook on a lot of…
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Between shows, socialising and just, you know, doing life, July has been beyond busy. Which is why I’ve surprised myself by getting through two and a half books. Why half, you might ask… Well, aside from the two full books I read, which I’ll be telling you about in a second, I also started a…
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One question: how is it already July? Sometimes it’s scary how quickly time slips by without you even knowing. That’s why I think it’s pretty ironic that this month I ended up reading two books where time is kind of key. In both of June’s reads the main characters’ desire to stop time is contrasted…
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I realise this post should probably be called “What I’ve been reading: May, and a little bit of June”, but that just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. Since I went on holiday in May, I actually managed to get a fair amount of reading done (three books in a week, don’t all…
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It has to be said, spring is, by far, my favourite season. Having been out and about recently, I’ve noticed that there’s more of a spring in my step (pun wholly intended, sorry not sorry) and here’s all the reasons why… Everyone’s nicer It’s a fact that when the sun comes out and the days…
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I’ve never been massively into make up, so this post might come as a surprise to people who know me. Whilst I’m in no way a makeup expert, I have made some discoveries recently that I wanted to share alongside some old favourites. TLM Colour Changing Foundation The main reason I struggle with make up…
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