Life lately: London
The past few weeks have been a brilliant blur. After spending a lazy fourteen days caravanning near a quiet west coast village, I found myself careening down the motorway on a Megabus. Squashed around...
View ArticleLife lately: Work experience with Good Housekeeping
After a busy week of university, I’m standing behind the deli counter at work on a Saturday morning. ‘Laura, here you go.’ I glance up, no doubt thrown from a daydream about my blog or a book, and it’s...
View Article2015 Travel Bucket list
Maybe I’m hoping for too much from 2015. It’s the year I’ll graduate, there’ll be two weddings, I’ll have to find a job, I might even relocate. Hopefully though, I’ll manage to find the pennies for...
View ArticleLife lately: March
March has been a mission. Presentations, rescheduled translations, final essays… This is my last term (ever!) of university, which is simultaneously terrifying and exciting. My existence has been...
View ArticleLife lately: July
Where has the summer gone? Seriously. I think we’ve had the sum total of six days of sunshine here on the west coast, those real summer days where you can actually de-layer, go paddling in the loch and...
View ArticleLife lately: August
August has just been such a blur; most of it happening underneath west coast rain clouds. But before I start sharing my favourite moments of the past month, I have some news to share. I’ve got a job!...
View ArticleLife lately: September
Where has September gone? I feel like I’ve barely had time to register the dropping temperatures, or the leaves slowly turning gold. I won’t lie though, I am looking forward to the middle months of...
View ArticleFinding a flat in Edinburgh
After returning from Italy at the end of September, we set ourselves the nigh-impossible task of finding a flat before I began work. That gave us the sum total of just two weeks. And yep, you guessed...
View ArticleLife lately: October
And so the month of pumpkins, spiced lattes and clock changes has passed quicker than I thought possible. It’s been such a busy few weeks for me — all but several days of it without internet! — that...
View ArticleLife lately: November
I know I keep saying in every life lately post that ‘time is just flying by!’ But isn’t it just?! November seems to have disappeared overnight, the sparkers burning out in seconds and the leaves...
View ArticleLife lately: December
So the final month of 2015 has wandered by… yet another few weeks filled with bad weather and 9-5 work! It seemed to me that — until we escaped Edinburgh on the 23rd to return west — we’d barely had...
View ArticleLife lately: January
Nobody ever claims that January is fun. But — naively — I kind of thought I’d mastered it. I began the allegedly depressing 31 days full of hope and ideas for the year ahead. But then I hit a wall. Not...
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