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Paris Marathon 2025

This month I took on the Paris Marathon. Full disclosure - I am not a fast runner and never will be. I did it because doing a marathon...

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Apr 235 min read

Skiathos travel guide: Living my Mamma Mia dream

I've never been to any of the Greek islands before so I was a bit lost when it came to holiday researching. There are so many to choose...

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Jun 30, 20247 min read

Lessons I've learnt in friendship

I'm 25 now so I've learnt a fair bit about friendships. I've changed as a person since school so my friendships have changes as a result....

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Jan 7, 20235 min read

Giving up on the ballerina dream and falling back in love with dance

Like a lot of little girls I went to ballet classes from the age of three. Pink everywhere, tiny ballet shoes, and hair clips - that was...

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Nov 19, 20224 min read

Solo travel: A tour of Europe

I've done solo travel (loosely speaking) three times now. America in 2017 to work in a camp for the summer then travel a bit after, and...

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Sep 17, 20226 min read

Two novices take on the 'curly girl method'

I've always had curly hair. Mum has tight ringlets but mine is much looser than that. It's very thick so needs to be cut and layered to...

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Aug 21, 20226 min read

My weekend in Bath

Before I kick things off - I love Bath and want to retire there. That really is the overall summary of this piece. I'd never been to Bath...

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May 14, 20224 min read

My experience of a tarot card reading

Don't role your eyes yet, I was sceptical too. I'd never really thought anything of tarot card readings before, I'm not into fortune...

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Mar 19, 20222 min read

My experience with covid: Omicron wasn't mild

I managed to avoid catching covid for a couple of years but it finally caught up with me last month. Omicron has been labelled everywhere...

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Mar 6, 20223 min read

My experience of speed dating

I wasn't going to write about this but after going, a lot of people asked me about it out of pure curiousity, so I figured I'd share it!...

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Jan 15, 20223 min read

My review of 2021

It's fair to say after 2020 we all thought 2021 would see things get back to normal...how wrong we were. Looking back at my review of...

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Dec 19, 20215 min read

Scotland holiday in November

Yes you did read that right, I chose to go to Scotland in November for a holiday. With how the marathon timings worked out and my shift...

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Nov 20, 20213 min read

My marathon experience: Part 3

Final marathon piece now I promise. If you haven't seen part 1 and part 2 catch up with those first. The day Annoyingly I got an eye...

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Oct 23, 20215 min read

My marathon experience: Part 2

If you're coming to this blind, I suggest you read part 1 just to get some background. This piece will cover the whole traning process,...

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Oct 9, 20218 min read

Everything I've learnt from living independently

To give you some background, I moved out when I went to uni in Leceister. I lived in halls for first year, then a student house for the...

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Aug 22, 20215 min read

Lessons learnt: Music festivals

This year might not be the same in terms of the amount of festivals going ahead, but it's still much better than last year when the whole...

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Jul 24, 20214 min read

Letter to my 10-year-old self

Okay so this is another piece on this blog that isn't really for anyone else other than myself. I've never been a diary-writer, every...

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May 1, 20213 min read

My history with body confidence

Whenever you hear the words ‘body shaming’, straight away people jump to the image of someone being trolled for being seen as ‘too fat’....

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Mar 13, 20214 min read

Nine years of waitressing

Now I’m sure like many others, prior to going into my ‘career job’ I did my fair share of part-time waitressing, pint pulling, and...

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Feb 14, 20215 min read

My marathon experience: Part 1

It’s written down now so I guess I can’t back out. That’s right…I’ve bitten the bullet and I'm doing a marathon, something that has been...

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Jan 30, 20214 min read

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