Lodges and Laws

I logged onto Facebook this morning to find a memory dated from Halloween last year. Me and some pals went to the Highlands for the weekend. We booked a lodge for the night and made our way up there for some wine, board games, ‘Scream’ on DVD and a bit more wine (you know…for luck). …

Kind of a Bad Idea…

  Ok. So. I know I said in my last blog that I was abandoning the dating world and buying a cat but I’m going to level with you – I really didn’t think that decision the whole way through. And not just because it isn’t massively fair to judge absolutely everyone on the odd …

Just call me Jones…Bridget Jones

  Soooooo it recently came to my attention that some of my friends think I remind them of that grand dame of singledom: Bridget Jones. Now, I’m not going to lie to you; when my friends (plural, no less!) begin a sentence with ‘Do you know who you really remind me of…?’, my ideal answer has …

If in doubt, ask…

So, as I may have mentioned once or twice before, online dating is kind of awful. And by ‘kind of’, I mean it is a hellscape nightmare-inducing shitshow where dreams go to die. There is something so toe-curlingly awkward about walking into a bar/restaurant/clown-orgy not really knowing what the person you’re meeting will look like …

Holding your (middle) ground

So probably my favourite part of online dating is reading all the profiles. I do a lot of proof reading in my work life and I’m super nosy, so this kind of thing makes my happy clock tick. I get to peak under the lid of other people’s lives while mentally rewriting all the badly …

Guidelines To Live By

So I had a birthday this weekend. 31 years ago, I shuffled onto this mortal coil (albeit three months early. It was to be the last time in my life (to date at least) that I would ever be early for anything - I tried it and apparently didn’t enjoy the process.)  Fast forward to …

Feel’s just like I’m walkin’ on broken glass

I went to see the new Beauty and the Beast a few days ago. The one with Emma Watson, that fella from Downton Abbey, and Ewan McGregor spouting the dodgiest French accent this side of an episode of `allo `allo. No disrespect to anyone involved but expectations were…well…low. The original BATB is a classic and …

Everlasting love…

So I’ve finally done it. After almost 31 years on this planet, I have fallen in love. The songs all make sense now. The sky is bluer (or, at the very least, blue-greyer), the clouds are fluffier, the birds are chirpier…you get the picture. Life is just generally better. And, as with many of the …

Dating and Dangly Bits

So I recently came across the TV series ‘First Dates’ (what can I say? I basically live in a hole) and it blew my mind. People go on first dates. On TV. As a concept, it kind of does what it says on the tin, but holy shitballs. People go on first dates on TV. …

Cold Turkey

  Ah, it’s that magical time of the year again. When Christmas and New Year are over and I realise that I’ve eaten seventeen people’s body weight in turkey and chocolate and that walking up three flights of stairs every day is not quite sufficient to burn it all off. Have I sworn off sugar? …