Questions people are asking

Viewing a flat this week that I actually like, which is rare, and I am trying not to let that cloud my judgement. The flat is…

I put off a dentist appointment for three years. Three years of low level dread about something that took eleven minutes and did not hurt at…

Everybody has an idea of what a nurse, a teacher, a lorry driver or an accountant does all day, and almost all of those ideas are…

Everyone says it gets harder to start things once you are past a certain age, and I am starting to think that is mostly a story…

Mine kept my plants alive for three weeks while I was away and then refused to admit that two of them had died and been quietly…

Not the best restaurant. The best cheap thing. The plate that costs almost nothing and is somehow better than places charging ten times as much. Every…

A taxi driver once told me that if you cannot decide between two things, neither one is bad. I think about it more than most things…

I am asking because I have just realised how much of my twenties I spent waiting for permission that was never going to arrive from anyone.…

Not the big stuff. The small stuff. Mine was finding out the bakery near the station opens at six, which means I can get bread before…

Moving country changes more than the address. The paperwork, the banking, the friendships that quietly go quiet, the food you suddenly miss — none of it…