Bad bosses, big mistakes and memes, memes,memes; 10 things I wish my dad had been around to see.
I’ve never really had a head for numbers, but I know all the important ones.
I’ve never really had a head for numbers, but I know all the important ones.
One thing that no one ever tells you as they’re patting you on the back for going freelance (before quickly checking their bank balance online and returning home to roll around on a bed of lovely, comforting payslips) is that free lunches are no longer a regular part of your life.
You have to start paying for them yourself and everything tastes of ashes.
I’m sure that you’re familiar with the kind of email that I’m referring to. If you’re currently in a campaign that’s promoting an upcoming business event, you will definitely have received a ‘Sorry’ email.
The worst thing that I have ever done in exchange for money was repeatedly writing, editing and being with a 30km radius of the following quote; “Poor people have big televisions. Rich people have big libraries.”
I have a complicated relationship with Ricky Gervais.
As does everyone who’s ever encountered him, I would imagine.
Something you might not know about me is that I spend a fair amount of time considering what people are like in bed. Continue reading
Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage, Ed Miliband and I all have two things in common.
One, is our inexplicable but powerful sexual magnetism.
Two, is that we all quit our jobs this week.
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I first got a TV in my bedroom when I was 12, and I’m pretty sure that’s where all of my life’s problems started. Continue reading
I thought about doing a humorous, yet heartfelt, list of sixty things that I love about my mum, but, again, that’s really hard. Not because she’s not great, but it’s difficult to find sixty things that you love about anyone, even, yourself; seriously, try it. Continue reading
This isn’t, for once, the emotional pornography that I am prone to writing but rarely publishing after I’ve just been chucked. In fact, for once, I haven’t been chucked. Continue reading
I work in an office now. I am an office worker. I’m not sure how it happened, but the other day I found myself annoyed at someone for hoarding staples and it dawned on me then, as she counted out fourteen staples and handed them to me, that I work in an office now. I am an office worker. Continue reading
“And so then they slid the camera up there…”
I closed my notebook and clicked my pen back inside itself. I wasn’t going to be taking any notes in this meeting.
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I think Rightmove is trying to kill me. I don’t know, maybe I’m being paranoid, I just really get the feeling that someone there wants me dead. I’m currently flat hunting, and by flat hunting I mean that I spend my lunch breaks wearily trawling through Rightmove, bookmarking the same flats that I bookmarked yesterday. … Continue reading