Archive - What I've Noticed

A hex and a missing child

In which the only explanation for various manageable disasters is a hex

May 15, 2023 •

September 2021

Letting people drink in peace

Booze is something people love to feel superior about, love to scold about, love to brag about, or like me, just straight up love. I am not a moderate…

Sep 29, 2021 •

Reasons To Have Children

I was finally inconvenienced by the global health pandemic when my book launch was cancelled. Well, it had been pretty inconvenient to be pregnant…

Sep 16, 2021 •

How I've tried to feel better

During year one of the pandemic I wrote a book and had a baby. I knew this was obnoxious but I was obviously pleased with myself at the same time. I…

Sep 11, 2021 •

Have I mentioned I'm in lockdown?

I’ve been in bed sick for a week, which is a very boring way to start a piece of writing but it sets the context for my thoughts and why my mind has…

Sep 3, 2021 •

August 2020

Getting through the day

Recently I read someone say the way they are getting through lockdown is to think of themselves as 70 years old, and how they would probably do anything…

Aug 23, 2020 •

May 2019

I thought my kid was dying and all I got was this lousy lust for life

When I was watching my son die I did not behave in the way I had imagined in those grim games your mind sometimes forces you to play. ‘What would it be…

May 2, 2019 •

August 2018

Who do I relate to the most here?

I wandered into a vintage dress store in King Street where a girl of about 17 was trying on a fantastic and massive skirt. She was there with her mother…

Aug 6, 2018 •

July 2018

In which I am scared, and then I am not

My doorbell buzzed while I was having a serious phone conversation with my sister and my baby was playing on the ground after winning a mini war over…

Jul 19, 2018 •

Babies are boring as shit!

What surprised me the most about having a baby is how great it is. It seems obvious in retrospect but when I was pregnant, and even before I started…

Jul 6, 2018 •

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