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January. One of my least favourite months of the year. What’s good about it? Once the fairy lights come down, the ordinary lights illuminate all too well the dust and the dirt and the debris that the fairy lights have kindly masked during the moodily-lit month of December. I [...]

Kat Kerrigan is one of the main characters in the book I’m writing at the moment. She hates Christmas. She says, ‘Christmas makes everything seem worse than it already is.’ I’m a bit like that. Take last weekend, for example. I went – like an innocent lamb to the [...]

Day: 4 Nicotine patches used: None Cigarettes smoked: None Number of times I have been nasty to family and friends: Many Number of previous attempts: Classified. I suppose I’m not the only one in the country – and indeed the world – to have thrown their last packet of [...]

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a girl. The girl was 23. The land was Australia. The time was 1994. She lived there for a year and worked in Sydney as a Girl Friday for an investment company. The girl licked stamps and [...]

When I was four, I wanted to be a tapdancer. At family gatherings, I would sing ‘On the good ship lollypop’ and tapdance in a pair of my mother’s shoes that made lovely tap-tap-tap sounds against most types of floors, apart from lino which was unfortunate because there was [...]