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I recently watched Canadian economist Larry Smith’s TEDX (funny, no-holds-barred) talk on ‘Why you will fail to have a great career’ which ultimately reveals that you need to find your passion, pursue it and not let fear hold you back … Read more →

‘This isn’t funny,’ Hot Danish said as I laughed at him prancing around on the sand while we tried to locate our villa. ‘This sand is f***ing hot – it really hurts.’ He was struggling with the ‘barefoot luxury’ accommodation … Read more →

I found my passport (at the bottom of the recycling bag) an hour after I’d reported it lost to my local police station. The British Consulate cancelled the emergency travel document just in time.

‘Have tons of sex and delicious … Read more →

Yesterday I signed a contract for my soon-to-be employment. This will be my best-paid job yet (admittedly not difficult for a journalist. I was once asked if I was prepared to earn less than my then already embarrassingly low salary … Read more →

‘What experience do you have in project management?’ Plan B teased me when I told him about my latest freelance work, managing a hosiery shoot. ‘How on earth did you get that job?’ he wanted to know.

Admittedly, I have … Read more →

Over dinner with girlfriends, one bemoaned her reduced sex life. ‘He is just too tired when he comes home from work,’ she said. ‘We only have sex on Sunday afternoons now.’
‘My boyfriend let me know that sex can’t be … Read more →

‘Remember when we met and you said you only dated doctors?’ My friend said to her boyfriend during dinner at pan Asian restaurant Naga. ‘I once told Hot Danish that I only date guys who fall within one or more … Read more →

Hot Danish and I recently spent a whole day in bed together. This might sound romantic, but when one of you (he) keeps coughing into the other’s pillow (mine) and the other (me) ticks every symptom of flu, including sickness … Read more →

‘Just trying to put your 2012 tax return together – I cannot seem to find your summary spreadsheet for 2011-12,’ my accountant emailed me two days before the tax return deadline. On the same day I received an email from … Read more →

Plan B was hoping for sympathy for a recent mishap. ‘I went running in Richmond Park yesterday, slipped on an icy footbridge, fell into the guardrail, and dislocated my shoulder. I put it back in and ran the remaining 10 … Read more →