I keep thinking about a scene from the first series of The Handmaid's Tale TV adaptation. It's a flashback, with the main character Offred remembering a trip to the café she took with a friend after going for a run together. They get to the till to pay for their
• 4 min readIn the twelve days between 26 December 2019 and 6 January 2020, I went to the tip four times. The tip is what I call it because that's the phrase my mother uses, although the sign by the gate reads "Household Recycling Centre". Once inside, you drive around a horseshoe-shaped
• 4 min readWhen I first moved out of London — and don’t worry, this isn’t one of those “why I left London” diatribes, although I might write one of those one day, who knows — I was absolutely convinced that I didn’t want to work from home. I was excited to
• 4 min readWhat is my job? This is something I’ve been asking myself a lot recently. I have work enough to fill my days and the last year has been my most positive to date in purely financial terms. But when asked by a friendly, curious stranger what I do, I
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