Bright blue polish on fingers and toes started as a cheap council-estate habit. Now it pops in every Reel and people recognise me by it before they hear the Essex accent.
Author: emmawebb
I’m Giving Some Money Away To Subscribers
From now on, every single month, I am going to pick one subscriber at random and just give them five hundred quid. Proper English money.
I split with my new boyfriend after two weeks. I have no choice.
Well that was disappointing. For some reason I thought all men were suddenly great again. Now I have to beg to the one guy that can do the job properly. Good god, how have I fallen this far?
Living in Hackney While My Heart Lives in Essex
I grew up twenty-five miles away and it might as well be another country. Basildon doesn’t do this. Basildon does quiet Sundays and the sound of a kettle and my mum shouting up the stairs.
What Happens When Your Therapist Finally Gives Up on You
Then she asked about sleep. I told her the truth because lying to a therapist feels like extra work and I’m already knackered. Four hours if I’m lucky. Sometimes two. The 3 a.m.