‘Atmosphere’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of the most anticipated books of the year. Author of global successes such as ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo‘ and ‘Daisy Jones and the Six‘, Taylor Jenkins Reid excited fans at the end of 2024 when she announced that her ninth novel ‘Atmosphere’ is due to be released this summer. I was thrilled to be able to get hold of an early proof copy, and I can’t wait to share my thoughts on this book with you! “An epic novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our…
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Launching Mission Better
I’ve mentioned before, that over lockdown in 2020 I launched my own small business, Mission Better. I had recently been made redundant as the result of the pandemic, and I really wanted to put my extra time to good use. Inspired by the small changes we can make every day to cut down on single use plastic, I wanted to create a space online where people could browse, discover, and buy easy, actually usable, swaps, and help them to launch their own mission to be more sustainable. Since becoming interested in small eco changes while at university, I felt I had curated my own perfect little collection of reusable items…
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From the Archive: ‘My Roaccutane Experience’ (November 10th 2018)
I originally documented my experience of being on Roaccutane with monthly updates and weekly progress photos on my previous lifestyle blog Thginkcm. However, as this blog is now deleted, I unfortunately have lost the majority of these posts, along with their photos. I have been able to salvage two posts from this series, my Roaccutane Month Three update, as well as the below post on my overall Roaccutane experience. I appreciate these posts won’t mean as much without the context of being able to track the progress of my skin, or as many of the original photos, however I still wanted to preserve the two posts I could save. The…
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From the Archive: ‘Three Days in New York’ (September 18th 2018)
Over the summer I was lucky enough to spend three days in New York, while on holiday. I had only been once before on a school trip, so it was really nice to go back and visit places I hadn’t managed to see the first time. The last time I had visited New York was in October, so it felt completely different to see everything in the summertime too. We were a little more sleepy starting the trip than we had hoped that we’d be, as our flight across from London had been delayed quite a bit, meaning that we didn’t actually land in New York until after midnight. Not…
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Why Spillt is a Game Changer for the Kitchen – and for Food Waste Too!
Do you ever find something that you love so much you just want to shout about it from the rooftops? Well, this is me shouting from an online rooftop – letting you know why you need to try Spillt! Do you like food? Great! You’re going to love this free recipe app! How many times have you found a recipe you love online, maybe screenshotted it, used it a few times, and then totally forgotten about it? I often think about recipes I used to make, particularly over lockdown when I was making a lot of new meals, where I now have no idea what website I found them on,…
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My 2024 in Books
This year has been a great year in reading for me. I’ve previously written about the fact that 2024 was the year I managed to scoop myself out of a reading slump, and I really have managed to make reading a more consistent part of my routine – and I found the joy in it again! So I wanted to share with you my 2024 in books – what I loved, didn’t like so much, and what I am keen to read in 2025. The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman I started off this year with The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. My sister and I had agreed…
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My All-Time Favourite Christmas Films
I love Christmas – and I really love Christmas films! This list was originally meant to just be my five favourite Christmas films, but narrowing it down turned out to be a lot trickier than I thought! Even stopping at ten feels like I’ve missed so many good ones out! (Shrek the Halls (2007) always deserves more love, but just missed out this time). But I know you haven’t got all day to read this, and I really do need to be picky if I’m talking about my absolute favourites. So without further ado, here is my *current* list of all-time favourite Christmas films. 10 – How the Grinch Stole…
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Why You Need to Read ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece’ by Tom Hanks
I’ve recently finished reading ‘The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece’ by Tom Hanks, and I’m honestly not sure I’m ever going to be done shouting about it from the rooftops (at least not until everyone I know has read it too)! I recently wrote about my experience crawling out of a long reading slump, and this is truly one of those books that instantly revived my joy of reading. It was only published last year, but it’s not a book that I’ve seen a lot of people talking about, so I wanted to give it a bit more love! ‘Spanning eighty years and culminating in the opening of…
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From the Archive: ‘Six Food Tips For Freshers’ (September 11th 2018)
Moving to university, or even just moving away from home for the first time, brings with it a lot of new challenges and things to learn. One of the biggest of these, perhaps, is learning how to cook for yourself. Cooking for one can be enough of a challenge on its own, and that’s before you even have to think about making sure you have a decent and somewhat healthy/ balanced diet (I hate to tell you, but the novelty of the beige food does start to wear off eventually)! When I first moved to uni I had very little clue about what I was doing in terms of cooking…
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Finding My Way Out of a Reading Slump
I have always loved reading. So much so, that I chose to study English Literature for my degree. I really loved my degree, and loved that each week the seminars felt like a little book club, with the opportunity for us all to discuss and share our thoughts on the books we had been reading that week. It pushed me to read books I otherwise wouldn’t have, and gave me new things to think about whenever I read a new text. The cherry on top was the fact that my university campus was in Cornwall, so we had easy access to the beach, and the opportunity to take our reading…
