Caring for a cat with kidney diseaseMy cat, Cleo, just died, and I feel utterly wretched, but one thing that brings me comfort is the fact she had a much longer life than…Dec 11, 2024Dec 11, 2024
Why is being 30 considered ‘old’?Ever since I turned 30, the above question has been bothering me because there’s this weird disconnect between what people on either side…Jun 8, 2024Jun 8, 2024
“KAYLEY’S CHARGER IS MISSING” — a movie pitchI was at my parents at the weekend, and my dad started asking me about my relationship with the internet. His point was that life would…Jun 5, 20241Jun 5, 20241
“Mickey Mouse Degrees”I heard the above term a lot when I was growing up. I thought it had slowly leaked out of discourse because I hadn’t heard it in a while…May 29, 20242May 29, 20242
Why I writeI remember barely any of the fiction I wrote prior to about 2014. This may seem strange, given I did creative writing at university between…Apr 24, 2024Apr 24, 2024
AI. Artificial Incompetence.I wrote this story in 2015. I never published it. I randomly stumbled across it recently and thought I’d post it because its surprisingly…Apr 18, 2024Apr 18, 2024
The Checkout Staff are not HumansI recently read that attacks on shop workers, both physical and verbal, have risen by 50% this year. It got me thinking back to when I…Feb 16, 20241Feb 16, 20241
Age is a weird conceptI have this visceral memory of my first day of sixth form. I was allowed to wear my own clothes to school now. No school uniform. No tie. I…Jan 19, 2024Jan 19, 2024
How I’ve grown my audience on YouTube this yearThis entry may be a bit navel-gazey, but it seems that about 50% of articles on Medium are about growing your audience on various social…Nov 8, 20231Nov 8, 20231
