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Eat Like No One Is Watching
Better than it looked using my human eyeballs. Instagram, Facebook, bloody blogs like this – we’re a nation of editors now, aren’t we? The filters, the dreamy yet meticulously edited versions of our...
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Grazia – Generation Childless
This week I appear in Grazia Magazine, discussing my feelings about parenthood. Sadly they couldn’t give me six pages to really go to town on the matter, so here is the unabridged, uncut version of...
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The Boys Room
A woman’s place is in the kitchen, right Jerry? What has been annoying me this week? Well let me tell you. Our plumber came round and said something really sexist. Want to hear the story? Once upon a...
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Mindful Matters
Is it co-incidence, or do the people I know start trends? Seriously. My husband has been talking about mindfulness for years. Now it’s the buzz word in mental wellbeing. When I was at uni, my friend...
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Dawn French: Changing My World
This is my love letter to our bodies. To our incredible, complicated, beautiful bodies. I don’t know about you, but I spend an inordinate amount of time wishing my body was a different shape. I focus...
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And then there were four
So, you know about these little guys, right? Redford and Newman, the stupid little chickens we love so much. We were quite happy with two chickens. Bantams are more for ‘novelty value’ than egg...
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Gooseberry Fool
In which I make some Gooseberry Cordial. While getting sloshed. Ok, so city folk have got their transport connections and 24 hour access to ice cream, but I’ve got a gooseberry bush, so there. This...
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A Faster Chat
Fasting. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea. (You’re allowed tea when you fast. As long as you don’t add milk or sugar. Fun times.) But it is a thing. A thing people are doing. It all started with a...
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Gardener’s World
As my regular reader will know, we bought a house last summer. It’s all very exciting – no longer some carefree yoofs who go to festivals, on holidays and weekends away, what with all the money we...
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The Great British Isles
And we’re off. Turns out this little isle of ours, you know, the Great British one, is bloody beautiful. I sort of knew that, as I live near an alright hill and I’ve cycled round the Isle of Wight. I...
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Bonnie Scotland
Moo. As we left Keswick in the Lake District, we were feeling pretty smug. We were only four days in and confident we’d seen the most beautiful scenes the UK had to offer. We’d been up a mountain, we’d...
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A suitcase of piss
For the third leg of Gaz and Kim’s Excellent Adventure, we were beginning to feel a little spent. Which is strange, because I haven’t had a break in a year and I really needed one, and yet by week...
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Highway To Heaven
I decided to call this post the Highway to Heaven because, seriously, I drove on a road and stopped at a service station so fine that it was heavenly. Not that I believe in heaven. But I do believe in...
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Seven Year Itch
Now I’ve had the time of my life… waiting to win. I win I win I win. That’s right, after seven long years with Princess Beardface, I am finally bequeathed the title of person who has had the longest...
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Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder
Ain’t no party like a Kim’s club party. There was an incident a few years ago, for which the consumption of alcohol was largely to blame for my behaviour. It made me realise that contrary to popular...
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Star Wars
Quiet please. Crafts in progress. In recent years my mum and I have created what can now confidently be described as a family tradition. Annually, we pick a one day course in something crafty, cookery...
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Mental Health and Safety
Who am I? I have had an existential crisis. Following the accident that has had me bed-bound since New Year’s Eve, I have been in unfamiliar territory. Physically stilled, I’ve been questioning the...
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Moaning Minnie
Casper the Complaining Cat In my continued quest for inner peace, I’ve been reading many articles about happiness. I’ve never really thought of myself as much of a complainer – it’s a word with...
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MRI Done Brilliant
Look at me, so brave. In the never ending saga of my big bad bastard back, it’s Magnetic Resonance Imaging week, a clever contraption used to have a peek inside my anatomy and see what’s what. I’ve...
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Vote for Pedro
Nearly time to make an uneducated gamble on the future of my country. The General Election is nearly upon us and I am poised, ready to mark a cross in a box. But which box? I don’t take a huge amount...
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