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A Love Letter to the First Bright Mornings
When I wake on endless rat-grey London mornings with only the feeblest excuse for light leaking through the gap in the curtains, nothing feels worth…
Apr 21, 2023
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February 2023
A Love Letter to My Bed
All summer I’m restless, looking for excuses to leave the house long into the evening. Then October comes, the sky seems to sink below the tree line…
Feb 24, 2023
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May 2022
A Belated Love Letter to April
Seven Aprils ago, my first son was born. I went into hospital at the end of a long, heavy winter, and came out into a spring so bright and clear that we…
May 14, 2022
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March 2022
A Love Letter to the River
There’s a moment as you cross the Strand, waiting in the scrum of tourists and city workers as buses, taxis and bikes flow by, where, if you look up…
Mar 25, 2022
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A Love Letter to Stepping Outside.
Last night, while my sons lay safe and warm against me, listening to their bedtime story, children their age in Mariupol listened, frozen and terrified…
Mar 11, 2022
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A Love Letter to Home
It’s the beginning of March, and London is a dozen shades of grey fading into a sodden sky. The tubes are on strike, the trains are overcrowded, and the…
Mar 2, 2022
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February 2022
A Love Letter to the First Signs of Spring
February is the cruellest month - the new year is long gone, taking resolution and enthusiasm with it. The cosy darkness of early January, inviting…
Feb 23, 2022
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A Love Letter to Motels
There's no place like home, but there's no place like a motel either. Home is a cocoon weaved from love and memories, but a motel is a blank canvas, a…
Feb 16, 2022
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A Love Letter to Sleeper Trains
I love my bed and spend most of the day fantasising about collapsing into it, but sometimes when I wake I’m disappointed to find myself still in it and…
Feb 9, 2022
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A Love Letter to Citrus Fruits
Sometimes, winter feels like a film shot on pale, desaturated stock. There's no sunrise at dawn, just an almost imperceptible lightening of the leaden…
Feb 2, 2022
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January 2022
A Love Letter to Bathing in the Dark
We live in overstimulated times, walking blindly through life staring at screens and using every moment of downtime to catch up on unending content…
Jan 26, 2022
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A Love Letter to the Desert
In Baja California, I stumbled sleepily from an overnight bus as the sun rose over my first desert, silver in the morning light and white hot within the…
Jan 20, 2022
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