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A resolution, of sorts
New Year’s Eve, 2014 Considering I began 2014 feeling like I’d been smacked around the head with several wine bottles, knocking out any real memories of anything past 10pm the night before in the...
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Where are all the hidden tracks hiding now?
Do you remember how excited you were the first time you discovered a hidden track on a CD? The anticipation you felt as the time-ticker kept counting even after the last song had ended? In the...
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Somebody recently told me that the best thing you can do in your twenties is to realise that it’s OK give up, that ‘there’s a tremendous amount of dignity in accepting things on their realistic terms’....
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Laura Vs. Garden: cleaning up
I don’t believe in giving things up. Giving up on things when you feel like you’re flogging a dead horse, sure, but not cutting things you enjoy, even to the point of excess, out of your life...
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You’re an open book. We all are.
How much time do you spend feeding your inner-monologue into the internet? I, it would seem, spend a lot. I recently noticed it had been exactly five years since I dropped the standard ‘who gives a...
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Spice apple procrastination cake
Laura Silver You’ll often hear freelancers, or people who work from home, say that their house has never been cleaner than when they’re working to a deadline. Especially if their line of work happens...
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I’m through with online dating. Chance would be a fine thing…
For work reasons, I spent two solid days reading men’s online dating profiles last week, and what a shit-show of long walks in the park, sipping cocktails and eating roast dinners by a cosy fire they...
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Home, hope and yellow lentil soup
Laura Silver Pulling into Peckham Rye station after a few days away recently, I felt instantly at ease. The flat, grey sky and leaky-roofed platform might not seem like a pleasant contrast to Lyon’s...
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The Best Meals I’ve Ever Eaten
Laura Silver Duck egg, 1988 I hate eggs. The last time I ate an egg in its pure form was at a Little Chef just outside Bournemouth in 2001, aged 16. There was nothing wrong with said egg, which was...
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2016: reflections and resolutions
Driving through Yosemite’s gargantuan mountains during a trip to California earlier this year I couldn’t have felt further away from the troubles of the world. Everyday concerns seem small compared to...
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