Not Doing Taxes
My God. It has been ages. It's not that I haven't thought about it. Of course I have. It's just that thinking about it leads to the question of what to write and then it all gets complicated and my...
View ArticleToday, I Am Mainly Avoiding...
...videos. Well, I suppose I am probably safe as, although I was on the radio today, I wouldn't claim to be a star. (I would, but just not in public.)Actually, I was quite terrified of saying anything...
View ArticleArt Is Definitely A Real Thing, OK?
I am waiting for the plumber.He was meant to be here twenty-five minutes ago but has not showed up, and frankly I am beginning to feel rather rejected.I wasn't sure whether or not he would need to turn...
View ArticleResolute
Wow! This year is going to be good! I am going to be such an excellent person this year. This year is the one in which I turn thirty, so it has to be magnificent. I am going to be thin and...
View ArticleEditing's For Losers
A few days (weeks? months?) ago I started to write a post, then, in a total departure from character, I got distracted and wandered off. This is what I had written then:"The plumber is back.(Not a...
View ArticleIf You're Happy And You Know It Clap Your Hands
...and rehearsal yesterday was amazing, and then I came home and had my dinner and pretended to tidy up and sent Lowri my thing for our Edinburgh application and then started the washing up and then...
View ArticleIn Which I Cannot Play
On my run this morning (nonchalant smugness, anyone?) I saw some crocuses (croci?) and snowdrops (snowdri?). Added to the joy of finding an unexpected daffodil earlier on, this was cause for a small,...
View ArticleFlying Solo
"All Flying Soloists to Space Five please! Could all Flying Soloists please come to Space Five! The winner will be announced in one minute!"Exchanging agonised glances with one another we sat down. A...
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Things I Know Just Before Turning Thirty
Having just written the title of this post, I feel confident that there must be some things I know. Some wisdom to impart, some little gems of understanding that I can benevolently bestow upon your...
View ArticleOn Thirty
Alternative titles for this post:Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Now(Crow's) Feat of StrengthThe Wise Contemplations of a Grown Up Human Who Still Collects StickersMy thirtieth birthday was ages ago now....
View ArticleOf Deformities and Inaccurate Shorts
What massively fashionable things, I hear you ask in your minds even though you didn't know you were, are you wearing today, Léonie, oh Queen of all that is zeitgeisty?Well, funny you should...
View ArticleAn Exercise in Exercise-Avoidance
On the radio weather forecast this morning the lady had an excitable tone. "...reaching the mid-teens in some parts of the country!", she sang, delighted at the prospect. For me, this is not enough. It...
View ArticleSelf-Promotion Is Boring, Hangovers Are Not
I love rehearsing at the Royal Exchange. Partly mainly because it's across the road from a Pret-a-Manger and I enjoy spending all my money on their cheese sandwiches and Love Bars then revel in the...
View ArticleVatch Out!
Last night at about ten o'clock Lowri had a sheet of paper over her face. "But if you twizzle the pipe cleaners a bit..."She twizzled."...like that? You can get a whiskery effect?"We all nodded in sage...
View ArticleThe Night Birds Love You*
Yesterday I walked downstairs with a load of washing in my arms. I opened the front door, took a deep breath, and was just about the sling the lot out of it, when I realized what I was doing. I shut...
View ArticleEdinburgh Eve
I've never been the sort of person to lie awake in the early morning, hours of delicious sleep ahead of me, and think, no, it's no use, I'll get up and be useful to the world and myself. I always...
View ArticleEdinburgh - Part One
The day before we went to Edinburgh I nearly suffocated in lists. Our flat was littered with small, desperate scraps of paper with scrawled To Do haikus on them.Loop pedal (and lead)Black dresses (one,...
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Edinburgh - Part Two
(Do you want to read Part One first?) (You don't have to.)The first day of our show was hectic. Sophie had left all her knickers in Manchester, and our flyers hadn't been delivered to the venue. We...
View ArticleEdinburgh, Part Three (Sort Of)
I definitely had more to tell you about Edinburgh. I wanted to talk about how gloriously hot it was, how many incredible things I saw, and how one day we were delayed starting our show because someone...
View ArticleI May Not Be Where I Intended To Go
I have just created an event on Facebook and now I feel all weird. Ben isn't here, so I can't rush up to him, shake him by his surprised shoulders and scream "I feel weird!" into his increasingly...
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