Could not agree more.

You can always go back to your maiden name. My mother did, at age 47. It was a conscious feminist decision she made in the 90’s and dad just shrugged. He was/is largely outnumbered by ‘strident feminists’ in our family and is pretty chill with these things. Your situation might be different but it sounds like it still…

I used to work with a woman who one day announced her pregnancy and in what felt like about three days looked about nine months + 26 months + 1 small elephant pregnant. She was huuuuuuuuuuge. It was the first time I’d met someone who was pregnant with twins, I’m sure it frightened me into another ten years of…

Salmon is great, don’t give up just yet. I think the most important part to getting the hang of cooking salmon is ALWAYS BUY SKIN ON. Crispy salmon skin is delicious and it means that the cooking time is less finnicky - the skin acts as a heat buffer (sort of) which means you can monitor how much the fish is cooked…

I’m not American but this is one of my favourite favourite favourite sub blogs. It cheers me up endlessly.

Wow. What an arsehole. I’m assuming this is in the states where you pretty much have to tip but in any other country I’d be complaining to management, leaving zero tip and informing management that my firm would not be entertaining any more clients at their establishment, because who the fuck knows why anyone is…

It’s THIS. ‘Be a peach’ does mean ‘won’t you be helpful little lady and go do that thing for me’... to your boss. So weird. It’s not even about how casual the office is, that seems like a side issue, for me its more - why couldn’t they just have written the request normally? Like, Hi, would you mind sending me over…

Covering my exercise books with contact paper was the highlight of my year. All those fresh clean pages. I’m still useless in a stationery shop - I can spend hours mooning over all the office supplies.

These two are the same person. Look at them. She’s just him in makeup and a wig. They even have the same nose.

Oh my god this is so true. I shouldn’t let it happen but that voice in the back of my head is always - oh god, including the act and the extra trip to the bathroom plus extra teeth brushing I’m going to get half an hour less sleep dammit. So romantic.

Keep at it dude. We’ve all got preferences, but in the end (and in this is only in my experience so whatever) for me its about the connection with the person. I would rather date tall guys (but I’m in a long term relationship so it’s all academic now anyway) but I’ve also had boyfriends across the spectrum and in the…

Me too with Station Eleven. Picked it up, started reading, next thing it was 4am and no idea where the time went...

Crap wine, cheap clothing, cheap holidays, people who don’t identify as feminists because they’re worried what men will think despite believing in all the basics of feminism, organised religion, clubbing, worrying about what music is cool... in fact any kind of ‘cool’. Who the fuck, particularly after high school,…

...and the idea that there’s really two sorts of travellers, those that see the ‘sights’ and those mysterious fabulous insightful ‘travellers’ who seek the road less travelled to experience what the locals experience.. ffs. Most people do both don’t they? See the sights, try to experience places outside the main…

OOh and sometimes a really good schlocky romance + western is all I feel like reading. :)

This was a great article, thanks for treating the genre with respect. I love a good romance, and I don’t care who knows. I find it surpremely irritating that people can’t seem to accept romance but are happy to talk about how much they loved fucking the DaVinci Code/Tom Clancy etc. A friend of mine was reading a…

I use mine all the time now but the first three months of that sucker in my kitchen wasn’t without great injury and furious anger... those things are SHARP.

I do not know why more people haven’t mentioned this. Just pull it off. I haven’t met a bottle of wine yet (and boy have I met a few) that can’t have its foil wrapper just pulled off.

Oh god, the horror. I’ve never been to a dry wedding, I can’t even imagine. In fact, I’ve never even heard of one happening in my extended gruop of family and friends.... drunken heathens all of us I suppose. I feel for you :(

My cousin did this. He and his wife got dance lessons before hand and it was excruciating. Hand-wringing excruciating. Everyone just has to stare at them while they romantically gaze into each others’ eyes for FIVE MINUTES? The whole crowd??? My family has a pretty low bullshit threshold and this was just the pits.…