I want to let you in on a secret: I’ve been seriously thinking about going back to university. When I was a teenager, there was one thing I wanted more than anything, and that was to go to Cambridge. I don’t, of course, just mean the town – I mean the University of Cambridge. I […]

Today, I want to talk about panic attacks. When I was 17-years-old, I was sitting in my A-Level English class. I was towards the back, but not in the very back row. The very back row was where the cooler people sat – or so went the delineation of teenage society. It was cool to […]

Several months ago now, I told you all about the schedule I’d been trying to work to on a daily basis, and how much it had done for me. I also told you about the days where it didn’t work so much. I’ve been following that schedule in some form since November, and it’s made […]

Growing up, I was fortunate to live in a family where whilst we weren’t profuse with money, we also didn’t generally struggle to eat. There were periods that were harder, as with all households, but mostly we were comfortable. We didn’t go on holidays or do many extravagant things, but we had a huge house […]

I have plenty of time to watch things, read things, play things. But very often, when something new comes out, I don’t. When everyone around me is getting really hyped up about this new show on Netflix, or a new book, most of the time I don’t watch or read whatever it is. Why? Because […]

I’ll let you in on a secret: I don’t really know how friendship works. Growing up, I was always the third, fifth, seventh wheel of friendship groups. I think I had opportunities to have closer friendships than I did, but I never managed to capitalise on them. I never knew how to. Because for most […]