
The Awkward Files
Why, why, what a terrible time to be alive, if you’re prone to over-thinking…

Happy Christmas, everyone! Here, have a close-up picture of my hand: Oh, that? That's just the giant burn I gave myself by trying to fill my hot water bottle in the ...

Last week, Max had his 48 month assessment from the health visitor, and I decided to try Lush's Caca Rouge henna for the first time. I mean... you can ...

This is part 3 of my occasional series rounding up some of my most recent awkward moments and/or random acts of stupidity (You can read the first two instalments here ...

Scared of the dentist? Here's a story that'll help make you feel just a little bit better.. Did I ever tell you about the time I threw up at the dentist's? ...

So, it seems the year hasn't gotten off to quite the start I was hoping for when I was writing down my New Year's Resolutions, punching the air, and muttering ...

On Friday, I'd just finished a run on the treadmill, and was guzzling water in the kitchen before heading to the shower, when I saw my parents' car pull up ...

Happy Christmas, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful day, if you were celebrating. We had a lovely, relaxing Christmas, marred only by… well, by ME, basically, and the…

This Saturday was my friend Lindsay's birthday party, which was being held in a club in Edinburgh. "I'll get ready super-early," I thought. "Then there'll be no last-minute rush, with Terry ...

The latest installment of The Cold That Won't Die has left me feeling run-down and miserable, so instead of getting out and about, and clocking up new Random Acts of ...

Remember how last week I started doing The Friday Five again and I was all, "I am going to do this every Friday now for the rest of my life, only ...

A couple of years ago, some cataclysmic event or other happened to my computer (clearly it was so cataclysmic all memory of it has been wiped from my mind, because…

So, on the last day of our honeymoon we broke the house. For once, it wasn't my fault. No, this particular random act of stupidity was all Terry's, and even although ...

So, you remember the time I fell off my bike twice in thirty seconds and you all thought that surely that was the lowest I would go in terms of ...

I went running today. I had thought that all I needed to become one of those people who's, like, really into running, and also really skinny and fit, was a ...

So, this morning Terry and I go out cycling. We’re cycling merrily along, up hill and down dale (but mostly up hill, it has to be said), and also, along…