I can’t tell you how many times over the last two years I have sat in front of this white box, fingers flexed, ready and wanting to pour out my heart in an 800 word blog post.
It is something I’ve been doing since, god, the actual year 2000: not just as my own personal therapy but as a way to connect, to help other people, to just… be. I enjoy living my mistakes and triumphs in an open way, that’s the person I have always been since Tim Berners-Lee gave us the internet.
Space is a premium in my little house, and as such it has not been easy to create my dream office.
For one I don’t actually have an entire room to dedicate to the area – just a corner spot – so I’ve really had to maximise the bones of what’s available.
One of the things that makes me proudest of Elfie is her voracious love of books and creativity when it comes to storytelling. I grew up devouring words and I think a love of the written word is something to cherish and encourage.
New York: the city that never sleeps, so good they named it twice, if you make it here you can make it anywhere. Etc etc. It’s literally the most hectic place on the planet, but if I had to be anywhere I’d be there in a flash: here’s my definitive guide to the city.
The decision to get tape-in hair extensions was not one I came to quickly. Despite losing half my hair in the last year I still wanted to be taken seriously – as a business person, as a mum, as a human – and for some weird reason I thought sticking someone else’s hair on my head would make that impossible.
By the time I mustered up the courage to address the scary monster lurking in the corner of my mind and inbox – my first year’s tax return – I was in trouble to the tune of about £800. Why are self-assessment tax returns so darned terrifying?
My six-year-old son is obsessed with snow. I mean, obsessed. We have Google Home devices throughout the rooms of our house and he’s constantly probing it with the question of when, exactly,…
One of the questions I’ve been asked most often recently is “how do you get a book deal?”. Because whoever we are, whatever we’re doing, there’s something so delicious about the prospect of writing a book.
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