My mum and I often spend the few days before Valentine’s Day baking heart-shaped biscuits. In the past, I have taken a load into school and my mum does the same with work, or loads my sister up with a batch to distribute. We subsequently never share them with husbands or partners, but with friends … Continue reading Every kind of Valentine
What to cook in perpetual lockdown
There is something more trying about this wave of lockdown. What was originally a difficult yet novelty disruption to life has become a year-long no man’s land where time has continued to soldier on, yet our lives remain halted. Development, progression and change, ordinarily fundamental aspects of one’s early twenties, have been put on hold. … Continue reading What to cook in perpetual lockdown
Mood Food
It feels a bit repetitive to be another person drawing attention to the horror of 2020, but right now it's fairly unavoidable. The year has been an absolute shit show, as my mother would say, and it doesn’t look as though things are going to pick up particularly quickly in the New Year either. The … Continue reading Mood Food
Female desire: what women expect from sex
This morning a friend sent me a TED Talk entitled ‘Reclaiming Female Sexual Desire’. I passed it on to some my female friends, and it started a conversation around our attitudes towards sex, especially in relation to male desire. The woman who gave the lecture, Pam Costa, described her own struggles with her lack of … Continue reading Female desire: what women expect from sex
The New Year gym rush
January arrives again as we wave goodbye to another year. Shamefully I have rather little to show for 2019, however, I’m not going to lament my laziness because I think I’ve done that enough so far. That’s also not what New Year is about, is it? We’re being blessed with a fresh start, an opportunity … Continue reading The New Year gym rush
Halloween: what spooky means for twenty somethings
Happy Halloween! The only time when sexy kitty-cat costumes meet far-fetched horror films. As children, the scariest thing we encountered on Halloween was the traditional group of eleven-year-old boys with flour and eggs that threatened to ruin our trick-or-treating innocence. Today, it’s a little harder to think about what constitutes as frightening. A host of … Continue reading Halloween: what spooky means for twenty somethings
Sexual harassment: different genders, different rules?
It’s been a hefty seven months since I found the time in my apparently very busy schedule to write a blog post. It’s difficult to decipher what exactly has prevented me from posting; it's probably all of the productive and inspiring activities I've been doing that’s taken up the majority of my time. (Eating, sleeping … Continue reading Sexual harassment: different genders, different rules?
New Year, New Guilt
After the indulgent and hedonistic Christmas break, the New Year poses a pressure to lament your sins and weight gain, and turn over a new, healthier leaf. The clean slate is irresistable, a blank piece of paper to write your next chapter upon, starring a clean eating, hardworking and success hungry you. However, so many … Continue reading New Year, New Guilt
Rethinking Confidence
Confidence is often considered to be a great attribute to success. In our careers we are encouraged to believe our abilities and skills not only make us eligible for a position, but also set us above the others applying. Here lies the issue with confidence- it is so often associated with comparison and competition, it … Continue reading Rethinking Confidence
Children and the expectations of gender
Since becoming a nanny I have become increasingly aware of how impressionable young children can be. They truly are sponges, absorbing information, opinions and language. Pretty terrifying that someone has trusted me with this responsibility. As I sat with them watching TV one afternoon, I began to see how much power the media has over … Continue reading Children and the expectations of gender
