I am on the trip of a lifetime, and miserable as all hell. My feet are soaking wet and cold, my shoulders ache because the bloody backpack is too heavy. I can’t breathe properly; it is like trying to inhale through a blocked straw. I’m wading through snow and there there is still nine f**king […]
What I learnt in 2022; that most of the time it is so much fun just being me
A few weeks ago, I was waiting for a hotel lift so I could descend for breakfast. When the door finally slid open, I saw a fat middle-age man with a suitcase, and a young woman standing behind him. I stepped forward. “Nein!” Barked the fat man, waving his arms in front of him to […]
Less Fear, More Anger and Pink Freud… what I witnessed in Ukraine
We drove across central Kyiv early on a Sunday morning. I remember being surprised by the hush: the night before the bars and restaurants had been pretty packed. But now the city was near silent, just us and a few street sweepers with their wooden brooms, though the streets already looked clean. We parked up […]
Mirror mirror on the wall – where the fukarwee…..?
My mum has these funky friends across the pond in Canada who like kayaking. One day they set off with a bunch of pals, to paddle down a local river. When they eventually stopped to rest, the group realised they had kayaked miles from where they’d intended to go, and were completely lost. “Where the […]
