How well do you know your partner? Spend every day beside someone and it’s like an unintentional study of a living, breathing subject. Their smell. The curve of their face. The way they make coffee: strong, milky, right up to the rim, as if those messy extra millilitres are the […]
COLOGNE, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 12: Laura Wittek is wearing a beige scarf and a beige coat, black leather pants and beige boots on November 12, 2021 in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Jeremy Moeller/Getty Images) When it comes to glasses, sunnies and the COVID-trendy blue-light variety, my preferred frame is tortoiseshell. […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 07: A guest is seen wearing a pink Collina Strada sweatshirt and purple skirt outside the Collina Strada show during New York Fashion Week S/S 22 on September 07, 2021 in the borough of Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Daniel Zuchnik/Getty Images) The other […]
I remember once watching my friend slowly slump to the ground, just like they do in the movies, and audibly wail because the ‘good’ pizza place was closed on Mondays. I didn’t question her reaction — she had warned me that she was ‘PMS-ing’. And as someone who isn’t immune to […]
Welcome to Money Diaries, where we’re tackling what might be the last taboo facing modern working women: money. We’re asking a cross-section of women how they spend their hard-earned money during a seven-day period – and we’re tracking every last penny. This week: “I’m a 27-year-old bid coordinator living near Birmingham. […]
Let’s crack open the fizz this Christmas and raise a toast to good times, old times…end times? In writer-director Camille Griffin’s debut Silent Night, it’s a familiar festive scene as old school friends reunite at Christmas. We know the formula well: Richard Curtis-esque sweary exchanges, Michael Bublé jingles, wails of […]
It’s an ongoing dilemma for most parents today. Sharenting: Should you post about children on social media? Being a parent has always involved a minefield of choices, and the digital age has only raised the stakes. We are faced with decisions our own parents wouldn’t even have fathomed back in […]
Jenny’s mum died of throat cancer in March 2020, on the eve of lockdown. With the funeral they wanted out of the question, her immediate family gathered with the minister in a cold, empty church hall at the time of her cremation. They FaceTimed a close relative who was sitting […]
“I don’t have to do nothin’ but stay Black and die.” This oft-repeated phrase in Black communities of a certain generation tells a story of people who have work in their blood. Black people have always been working. We’ve always been creators: of life, of magical somethings out of bleak […]
If you don’t have plans this Saturday night, don’t sweat it. There’s a powerful new moon total solar eclipse in Sagittarius taking place that will provide more than enough weekend entertainment for all of us — in a good way. While eclipses are often strikingly intense, the upcoming lunation on […]
