Here’s to putting ourselves down more in 2022, alright?The art of self-deprecation (not to be confused with the art of self-defecation) is a very British thing. More specifically, it’s a very female thing. (Men are more likely to self -defecate). Even more specifically that that it’s a very British, Female over thirties thing. This is because if you are thirty...
(Girls Versus The Sopranos) Miss, Behave! (Yes, you’re right to read the title of this blog in the voice of Mr. Humphries from Are You Being Served?) I’m taking advantage of my boyfriend being away and re-watching the entire box set of Girls. Not that he doesn’t enjoy Lena Dunham’s masterful mid -teenies creation. To...
“Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire what others desire because we imitate their desires.” Rene Girard, French philosopher This isn’t going to be one of those hippy articles that goes on about how Lockdown has changed...
Sometimes I think the world is really dumb and then I remember that someone called the reunion between J-Lo and Ben Affleck, Bennifer 2.0 and just like that, I feel my faith in humanity suddenly return. In my last blog I wrote about my love of numbing myself in nineties and noughties nostalgia. Friends, Sex...
In the last year I’ve watched Groundhog Day, Russian Doll and most recently the only romcom that my boyfriend will agree to watch with me, (it won the Critics’ Choice), Palm Springs. Two films and a TV show that centre around a common theme: characters who find themselves locked in the tyranny of a perpetual,...
I’ve just finished watching the equally heart breaking and heart- warming It’s a Sin. I haven’t cried this much at the TV since watching Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon in Stepmom. OK, I haven’t cried this much at the TV since our Netflix broke during Lockdown 1. If you haven’t seen It’s a Sin yet...
I never envisioned that my sense of self worth would be judged on how many rolls of loo roll I have stocked. (24). Well, probably 23 after you finish reading this as my boyfriend just had his morning coffee. Corona Lockdown does feel slightly like we are all serving part of Harvey Weinstein’s 23 year...
A girl got spotted by a modelling agent in Tesco (pre Lockdown) and I was stood right next to her. Of course I totally understood, I was wearing my corona mask at the time. But bizarrely when I took it off I still got nothing. So I opened my legs really wide to show I...
As always Zahra gives us answers to all of life’s big questions. Today she answers the age old question: It’s the question that plagues most of us. Along with ‘What Is the Meaning of Life?’ and ‘Will My Family Accept Me if I come out as Vegan?’ and ‘What the fuck is that weird knobby...
Zahra concludes that in order to save our mental health, we need to end our destructive relationship with social media. They say the key to happiness is, “Find something bigger than yourself and dedicate your life to it”. I don’t think this is true because I do this with Instagram and it’s doesn’t make me happy. It did, however...