Am I the only person who finds Movember extremely disconcerting? I'm 90% certain I was in a meeting with Freddie Mercury this morning. Hurry up and be December already. {Freddie with Jane Seymour wearing what can only be described as The Most Intense Flower Crown Ever, via Awesome People Hanging Out Together} ...

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Would I have found this so funny before I became a dog owner? I reckon I still would. I also reckon Smidgen is never going to be allowed off her lead ANYWHERE, EVER. I  mean, can you imagine??? I hope that those of you who celebrated Thanksgiving had a delicious time, and that your trousers still do up. Those of you lucky enough to be heading to...

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A confession: I actually quite like pink, if it's a nice pink (hello, blog). I also carried on playing with Barbies for longer than anyone who hopes to have a normal social life reasonably should, only giving up when the potential embarrassment of being found out by my friends was finally greater than the joy I found in making up stories and creating...

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Shit. Can you believe it's been two weeks since I last posted?   Remember when I went on holiday that time, and I got all those people to write amazing guest posts for me while I was away, because I couldn't possibly leave the blog unmanned for a single day? Yeah, I don't know what happened either. I'm pretty sure this post is in breach of The...

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This weekend, my mum and I are going on a jaunt. We are hopping on a train out of Edinburgh, waving farewell to its stairways and spires and air of refined elegance, and heading west. Back to the city where she was born. The city where I came of age, met my husband and learned the finer points of comparative constitutional law. And...

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