After a few years living out of home, my Friday night drinks with friends are increasingly kicking off with complaints about the parts of adulthood nobody warned us about: the price of tyres, how water is not free despite being a human right, and how hard it is to decide what to have for dinner every night. Personally, I feel we all should have been prepared for that last one, having watched my mother paralysed with this question at least weekly as a child, despite me alway

This is Melted Monday, where you are treated with the inner workings of my thoughts before I have articulated them into logic, you’re welcome! Melted thought of the week: What is the afterlife without a god? From the depths of boredom, 3 days into nursing a migraine in bed I turned to one of my old favourite shows to pass the time, The Good Place. For those not familiar, the show follows 4 individuals who have found themselves in the ‘Bad Place’ after their deaths and c

Naima Brown’s ‘Mother Tongue’ is not the book I expected. After stumbling on the recommendation from a BookTok creator, I couldn’t wait to dive into the story of the American stay-at-home mum, Brynn, who felt stuck in the wrong life until she suffered a brain injury and woke from a coma speaking fluent French. She saw a way out and took it, leaving behind her husband, Eric, and young daughter, Jenny, to build a new life. ‘Charlemagne said to speak a second language is to p