Stylist • 11th February 2025

“I’m a lark, and my partner is a night owl – here’s how we make sleep work”

"Most days, it feels like we’re ships in the night. So when I read that the most satisfied couples share the same bedtime, I panicked. What about couples like us, whose internal clocks couldn’t be more misaligned?"

The Telegraph • 25th July 2024

‘I beat a decade of career burnout by becoming a full-time house-sitter’

Eight months ago, I announced to my family that I was abandoning a well-paid job as a Mayfair-based marketing manager, flogging £175 bottles of wine to the London elite, to become, essentially, a live-in pet nanny. After a long silence on the other end of the phone, my Mum said, “People trust you to have full run of their houses?”

Business Insider • 12th October 2024

I'm 30, and my best friend is 75. She's shaped how I approach relationships.

At the time, neither of us expected the friendship that would blossom from just a handful of email exchanges. Soon, we were meeting regularly to see exhibitions, go shopping, and set the world straight over six-hour lunches. No problem was ever too big to be solved over a bottle of pinot grigio.

Metro • 31st August 2024

I asked my partner to plan a date night - his idea of romance left me shocked

I started to imagine the unthinkable: that he’d signed me up for a Tough Mudder. Or, like that poor woman on Don’t Tell the Bride, he’d booked a skydive and bungee jump before we declared our love to one another.

Globetrotters • 5th August 2024

Travelling Gave Me the Community I Never Found in a Decade of Living in London

In the UK, 1 in 5 people have never spoken to their neighbours and more than half of us Brits feel distant from them. Was it social media that started to create more insular societies? Or a string of pol...

Business Insider • 25th September 2024

I swore off long-distance relationships. I then fell for a man who lived on a different continent.

After witnessing friends endure the rigmarole of long-distance relationships, I could see why almost half of them end in breakups. I swore that would never be me, yet here I was, hammering my American Express details into an airline's checkout to book a one-way flight from London Heathrow to Sydney, Australia, to pursue the man of my dreams.