12 Angry Men and 1 Angry Me

I’ve always felt slightly peeved not to have been called for jury service. I thought it would be interesting. As well as wanting to do my civic duty.

Competitive Quarantine Fail

Because my son had symptoms I have been in lockdown for longer than most. Now just about everyone is staying home from work the internet, radio, whatsapp etc are full of tips for how to cope. I was ok before, but this is depressing me.

‘We’re Here For You’

It’s over a week since I came home from work to a son with coronavirus symptoms. He seems ok, but since then we have been in quarantine, eking out the milk for our tea and watching dramatic developments in the outside world from the confines of our home.

Oops!

We three sisters met up for dinner. ‘My three favourite words’ says one, ‘are: You. Are. Right.’ She repeats this a few times, then types it into a translation app on her phone for the benefit of her Japanese lodger who speaks very little English and is sitting politely at the table, surrounded by detritus and cats. I feel myself being rubbed up the wrong way.

Buying Water Like A Fat Person

I don’t buy bottled water. Waste of money in my opinion. And plastic. 

Divorcing After a Short Marriage

Helen Lewis, at a recent talk, mentioned she started her book, Difficult Women, A History of Feminism in 11 Fights, with a chapter on divorce law. She had found herself, she said, divorced before she was thirty.

Difficult Women

Great evening the other night: Three Difficult Women in conversation: