How are you doing today? Lately I feel like everyone around me has felt a bit off. Maybe it’s the daylight savings change, or the overcast weather we’ve been having. Maybe it’s the coke in the London water supply? (To clarify: I don’t actually think it’s the coke in the water supply.) Metaphorical or not, there’s something in the water, and it’s definitely left me feeling not that great this…
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Let’s Talk Youtube. As you probably know, I love a bit of YouTube. I’ve been on the site for nearly a decade (dear lord) making videos and watching videos. It’s an amazing platform. I’m always trying to find new content creators, and it seems that you are too as I am always getting messages asking for creator recommendations. I thought I’d compile a list of my current favourite creators, all…
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The 2019 Home Stretch I don’t know why, but I find it really hard to set goals. I bought a goals journal two months ago, and the one time I went to a coffee shop with the sole purpose of filling it out, I started panicking and had to leave. It’s time I got over this. With the nature of my job, it’s arguably more important for me to…
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As I was sitting down to write this blogpost, I noticed a draft post lurking underneath the published pieces. It was titled “I’m Feeling Disconnected From My Body,” and I wrote it in June earlier this year. As I skimmed over it, I realised that I have made a fair bit of progress since the beginning of summer. Step by step, I have been tackling the restrictive feeling I’d had…
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So let’s talk about last week shall we? It was a definite insert-heart-eye emoji-here kind of getaway. We went away for a quiet week with Jack’s family in Puglia, Italy, to eat local food, soak up some sun and generally decompress. We stayed in a villa a couple of minutes from Monopoli (yes, Monopoli Monopoly does exist,) a beautiful town in the “heel” of the country. The weather was incredible;…
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If you’ve been anywhere near my Instagram lately, you might have seen a lot of blue skies and a slight overuse of HUJI. I went on holiday! I actually got the recommendation from my hairdresser Michelle when I was moaning about how much I needed a holiday. This is the first time I’ve had a proper summer holiday without tying it into a convention or work event in years, and…
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It’s currently 9:54pm on Sunday evening. There’s a festival going on down the road from my house and I can hear the music from a mile away and the drunk people wandering down my road. I don’t know if it’s because of the festival, or because it’s the first day of my period, or for no reason at all, but I have been sweating and panicking and crying all afternoon. I…
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I’ve never been the type to have a small circle of friends. I’m not quite sure why, but I’ve always been drawn to having a lot of friends, acquaintances and random people you see at the pub when you come back to your parents’ house for Christmas each year. Having different people suited to different situations, having many small-talk acquaintances, and knowing people for years on end but only speaking…
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You know what? Over the past couple of months, I really feel as though I’ve found my feet with my work/life balance. After the, quite frankly, trainwreck of a year where I gave myself no down days and made over a hundred videos, I realised I needed to get a handle on my schedule and my free time. Not only is it important for getting my eight hours a night…
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I’ve been living in London for getting on to five years. The first year was spent in halls, desperately trying to balance food purchases and nights out on my student loan, all interspersed with standing in pissed-in lifts and finding live mice in the cooker of our Zone 1 flatshare. Year Two’s accommodation was a beautiful but freezing cold Victorian home between Archway and Finsbury Park, where we would sit…
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