Apologies for the recent silence. As I explained last Friday, I moved house on Saturday. The following day I collapsed, exhausted, in between bouts of frantic floor scrubbing, intensive clothes folding and manic hoovering. On Sunday evening, delirious with tiredness, I had myself a little self-pitying cry. I ache from the tips of my hair to [...]
Tag Archives: Joy
Settling In
Posted in Home, London, Love Also tagged Getting started, I Want To Go Home, London, Things That Make You Go Mmm 2 Comments
Alone vs. Lonely
Next week, I shall be moving into my new flat. At the moment, I am caught up in the minutiae – packing everything six levels deep, with the top and most accessible layer made up of the things I’ll need immediately – socks, tea, clean pants, deodorant and my radio. But I know that when I move [...]
Posted in Home, Identity, London, Love, Video Also tagged Gaah!, How To Be Alone, I Want To Go Home, London, Singledom 7 Comments
The Friday Pretty: Music Dudes Edition
Given the ovewhelming feedback following last week’s inaugural The Friday Pretty, it would have been remiss of me not to give the people what they want. And so, here we are. I’ve given the format some thought – clearly there will be hot dudes frolicking on your screen every Friday, but being a kinda logical [...]
Posted in Beauty, Love, Music, Pictures, The Friday Pretty Also tagged Beautiful People, Male Beauty, Things That Make You Go Mmm 1 Comment
Inception
I am very excited to be seeing Inception in less than two weeks. It’s by Christopher Nolan, and stars Leonardo DiCaprio (my 14-year-old self was RIGHT to crush on him!), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (wheee!) and Ellen Page (girl-crush!). Plus, like, a million other awesome people. I have knowingly shied away from reading/watching/listening to anything that might [...]
Posted in Love, Movies Also tagged Christopher Nolan, Fangirls & Fanboys, Film, Inception, Popular Culture 3 Comments
Perfect Passages
In my last post, I wrote about one of my favourite movies, The Truth About Cats and Dogs. In the post before that, I wrote about feminist TV icon Miranda Hobbes from Sex And The City. Both times, the comments showed a surprising unity in the way we consume media. For …Cats and Dogs, we [...]
Posted in Books, Identity, Literature, Love Also tagged Things That Make You Go Mmm, Writing 6 Comments
Eating My Feelings
On Monday night, filled with angst from the 9-5, I came home in a huff, and fell into the welcoming arms of food. If I could not resolve that which plagued me in the workplace, I would seek refuge in the cracking of eggs, in the mashing of banana, the sieving of flour and the fiery heat [...]
FOTC – So Hot They’re Making Me Sexist
Continuing the theme of May i.e. The Month of Lovely Things on Yoruba Girl Dancing, I did a lovely thing on Monday night. I went to see one of my favourite bands in the whole world, Flight of the Conchords, live in concert for the first time. I love them. I know people say that all [...]
The Month of Lovely Things
When I got published in the Guardian at the beginning of this month, I unofficially christened this May as The Month of Lovely Things. As such, I hope to document all the lovely things that I am engaged in this month, as well leaving out the truly crappy things. Let’s begin with last weekend, when [...]
Posted in Beauty, Food, Travel Also tagged Black Park, Food, Friends, Langley, Nature, The Great Outdoors 2 Comments
Unlocking The Sugar Code
It seems fitting that in the week David Cameron swept into 10 Downing Street, I discovered my sweet tooth. It’s been dormant since birth – I never had the common childhood fondness for sugar, never crunched sugar cubes (*shudder*) like my cousin T. Somehow, the looming spectre of the first Tory Prime Minister of my voting [...]
Posted in Food, London, Love, Movies Also tagged Eating, Friends, London, Things That Make You Go Mmm 6 Comments
Modesty Be Damned!
I love being a writer. It’s the job I’ve always wanted to do, even though it didn’t quite crystallise as a career choice till I was 17 and my sister told me I looked ‘right’ tapping at a typewriter. Since then, I have been lucky enough to write for a number of publications, both online and [...]
Have You Met Ms Monáe?
Janelle Monáe is impossibly cute and impossibly talented. I first heard of her a few years ago when she appeared in Idlewild, the OutKast film. Next I heard of her was when she released Many Moons, an old school stomper of a track, with a Fifth Element-type manic video, and Andre 3000-esque dancing. It’s not [...]
Be Your Own Hero
I’m floating on a cloud at the time of writing this, and that is down to the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, Whip It. It’s so good. We went en masse, a gaggle(?) of feminists (what is the collective noun for feminists?), and I temporarily lost the ability to articulate my thoughts upon emerging from the screening [...]
Posted in London, Love, Movies Also tagged 'Lady Things', Feminism, Film, Friends, Whip It, Women 13 Comments
The A-Z of Awesomeness
Found these via @johnwarrender, as featured on The Telegraph website. Apparently, I’m well tardy to this particular party. Anyway, they’re the work of Neill Cameron, a writer and artist who specialises in manga and comic book-influenced art. You can see his website here, and check him out on Twitter. Cameron did 26 drawings over 26 days – [...]
Posted in Graphic Novels, Love, Pictures Also tagged Comic, Neill Cameron, Things That Make You Go Mmm, Twitter Leave a comment
Presented Without Comment
The photograph: Actually, I lied. Here’s the correct comment:
Posted in America, Beauty, Humour, Love, Pictures Also tagged Beautiful People, Michelle Obama, Obama 4 Comments
The Great Cape Caper of Early 2010
Remember when I acquired a couple of capes at the recent Angels Costumiers sale? I’m so fashion-forward, sometimes, I astound myself. Look here and here, Stella McCartney wore one only a few weeks ago - capes are all the rage for A/W 2010. Yeah, I wore one to work recently. I felt like I was on America’s [...]
