Category: Wonderings
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How to start hunting vintage
Eighty per cent of my wardrobe belonged to someone who is now dead. The slight scent of mildew and engrained perfume is my signal to the world that I am Doing My Bit for the environment and our sartorial history. How to begin your vintage journey 1. Refine your search eBay My obsession with vintage…
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Survival
Today is my first day back at work after 16 days off because of my brain. Or because of how my brain behaves when things get to the point of unbearable. I am neurodivergent. That’s a catch-all term for ‘my brain doesn’t work like most’ because I still don’t really know what’s at the root…
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This house
This house was a sad thing. She’d sat, weeping, for decades – unloved, undone. I wanted her because she was cheap, but also for her long upstairs corridor and her proximity to both sea and river. She’s not fancy, not in the slightest. She’s a red-brick Victorian semi, just one shabby old lady amongst millions…
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Wild knowledge
There’s a certain kind of knowledge you can find peace in. It’s quiet, it’s not clever, but it’s a grounding force inside you. The folk names of plants. How a valley came to be. Where wild raspberries grow. The phases of the moon. A pinch of salt in chocolate, a pinch of sugar on tomatoes.…
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Creative Direction of Truffle Pigs
I was a copywriter for 10 years. I learned about structure and aesthetics, sitting next to designers and developers. I was often told off for how much time I spent with them. But I knew words. I wanted the next bit: getting the words into people’s eyeballs. When I started working for an insurtech startup…
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